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The End of An Era
The mid-1960s was a point of intersection for American movies. It is a bit of a lost era and one of the lowest points in Hollywood's history. It is situated long after the peak glories of the `golden age' of Hollywood and just before the New Hollywood movement that would breathe such new and invigorating life into the ailing medium. In many ways the films from this era are the ones which new filmmakers would react so strongly against; movies high in budget but sparse in originality, cast with aging movie stars playing worn characters; bloated, lifeless, and out of touch with the rapidly changing social climate of the day. "El Dorado", released in 1967, is most assuredly a film of this era. It is a western of such a standard concept that it could have been made thirty years prior. Its stars, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, are well past their primes and here look stiff, heavy, and old. It is, like so many others of the time, a film that seems irrelevant and washed up; a product of `going through the motions.' Its one saving grace, however, is that it occasionally seems all too aware of this fact.
El Dorado
As all John Wayne (Cole Thornton) movies I enjoyed watching this time and time again.Also, having Robert Mitchum (Sherrif JP Harrah) in this movie added a new twist of actors that co-starred with John.Robert is a good actor and I enjoy his movies as well.Other actors that added a twist to the movie were James Caan (Mississippi), Aruther Hunnicutt (Bull) and Christopher George (Nelson McLeod).I wish there were more authentic westerns and spagetti westerns as there used to be.Tom Selleck in "Quigly Down Under" is another good one.

ice your drinks and get the popcorn ready
What could be better...you get to see The Duke riding through beautiful western landscapes....with western towns populated with beautiful women...and bad guys in black hats....plus Robert Mitchum being Robert Mitchum and James Caan with that funny hat and big gun, and they play well with The Duke.The staging and the filming in technicolor plus the Olaf Wieghorst western art with the opening credits characteristic of the late fifties and early sixties took me back to some great memories of going to the movies as a kid. A side note...an acquaintance who was working on the set during filming says that John Wayne and Robert Mitchum were not talking to each other...who knows why, supposedly they were friends at one time..during the breaks Mitchum went off with the upper echelon while Duke would lunch with the crew....this is a great DVD to own for those Saturday nites when you feel like watching a fun shoot'm up western...you'll also love Rio Bravo.. ... Read more

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Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made."The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. The digital video disc offers standard and widescreen formats and a remastered soundtrack. Read more

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Don't talk about queens on the 4th of July, please.
Hailed as Clint Eastwood's "masterpiece" up until Million Dollar Baby came out, Unforgiven has been very hyped. How many modern westerns get hyped like this sucker did? None, that's how many. And of course, like I am with any hyped up movie, I had my doubts. I saw Million Dollar Baby before this, and thought it was average and predictable, and was sick of Morgan Freeman playing [yet again] the wise, older characters. Seeing that he was in Unforgiven didn't help my expected chances of liking the movie either. But when all was said and done, I had experienced one of the most heartfelt westerns ever made. No, it's not some sappy kind that relies on imagery or music to make you feel the impact of the film. Unforgiven instead focuses on one man's struggle to live normally after all the horrible things he'd done in the past, and his reflection upon them to an up and coming gunman. When the dvd format was released, this was a movie that a lot of people were anticipating. Sadly, it got a shoddy transfer and no special features that mattered. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its release, this version of Unforgiven is easily the one to buy without question, featuring in-depth special features, a stunning transfer, and even cool packaging.
A brief comment
I think this is one of the best westerns ever made, despite being a very atypical western. In most movies, the west was over-romanticized and idealized; here it's an unglamorous and almost film noir version of a western as several over the hill and cynical gunfighters, along with a rash, unproven, young wannabe, try to bring several evil-doers to justice. Each has his own reasons for taking part in this quest, despite the misgivings of Eastwood's and Freeman's characters. Both Freeman and Eastwood turn in a couple of their best performances, with Eastwood ironically turning in one that is 180 degrees apart from the macho role in the famous spaghetti westerns that originally made his name in the genre. Overall a fine western and one that should stand the test of time.

One of the best westerns ever made
In the interest of brevity, I will say only: UNFORGIVEN is one of the best western films ever made and certainly the best film Clint Eastwood has ever made; everybody in it is good -- except Gene Hackman, who is great; don't miss it. ... Read more

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seven samuri:The farmers always win.
The magnificent seven parallel the characters in seven samurai:1. Old man consults village leaders too fight the bandits and adventure to the city seeking men willing to protect the village 2. Vin and Chris decide take a funeral hurst, up a hill, and deliver the body of an indian chief at the burial site. An act of valour that brings fame to Chris.3. Chico is the young man, who wants to be part of the group but humilated by Chris in a quick draw contest, where Chris grabs Chico gun midflow. 4. Harry Luck joins the fight believing that Chris is scheming to defend the village because Chris has discovered Gold.In the scene where Harry has been shot and dieing, he asks Chris how much gold was found and Chris tells him half a million dollars worth. 5. Bernardo O'Reilly joins the group referred by Harry as an expert gunfighter. 6. Britt is the expert weapons specialist. Britt kills a man in a duel after being provoked in the fight.Britt beats the man in a draw and lodges his switch blade in the chest of the man before he can pull his weapon.Britt is the expectionally skilled fighter. The weapons specialist.Vin is also an exceptional clever gunfighter with a trade mark ability to shot in 360 degrees almost instanteously. 7. Lee joins the group and is supposely on the running from his enemies.Lee figures staying in Mexico will provide him a hiding place from his enemies.Lee is impartial to the villagers cause, but an exceptional fighter.In one scene Lee manages to kick in a door, enter, and kill a room full of bandits with injurying any of the villagers. Lee is killed in the last standoff.8. Chico discovers Petra and falls in love with her.After the last battle with the bandits, Chico returns to live with Petra in the village.Chico is the son of a farmer and not really a gunfighter but his boldness and courage win him a place among the magnificent seven 9.Chris is offensive and attacks the bandit hide out increasing the odds of survival. 10.Some of the farmers want to meekly give the bandits food, money, and women.Chris refuses this idea and teaches the villagers how to shoot guns. 11. Calvera is a new innovation in villians. Calvera is clever and whitty. Calvera underestimates Chris determination too defend the village and as he is dieing says, "I don't understand, your not suppose to be that type of man."

One of the better US-style westerns
Looking back at westerns in a 21st century point of view, sometimes we tend to look to into the acting and production styles of a different era. Our opinions may jump quickly at these differences, but we must recognize the style of the era and the technology up to the era as well. In Sturges' The Magnificent Seven, an all-star cast is assembled to bring the Seventh Samurai in a western setting. The ones that stand out are Yul Brynner as Chris, the Bald-Headed leader that still carries himself like a king. He never takes his hat off and doesn't break a sweat. Steve Mcqueen in an earlier role is memorable as well with his non-verbal acting. To me though, Eli Wallach shines as Calvera the "heel" with more liberty to exhibit more flair than the rest of the cast. He plays his role so good that in the end, I always root for him.
A weak, sexist, American piece of bubbly cheese.
Yul Brynner stalks about like he's in Westworld, acting super-tough, smoking every chance he gets. Steve McQueen, as always, is terrible. As for the rest of the "7", their acting is atrocious to non-existent. Only Eli Wallach walks away unscathed. Yet if these things are irritating, it is the blatantly sexist and racist undertones to the entire affair that just make it heinous. Yul Brynner actually says that he "might" rape the women of the town in one scene sarcastically. Amazing this could have ever been construed as being "tough". It's just ridiculous, and these distinctions are what sepeartes this pathetic remake from the masterpiece it shames. But I'll give it one extra star for being relatively well staged and directed.
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THE LAST GREATWESTERN By JOHN FORD
America's Greatest Director John Ford had at age 67 had one more great Western to add to his canon, Cheyenne Autumn, which followed two years later was well intended, but just average.This story is the story of a myth, but one that is allowed to live on because, " This is the West,...and when the myth becomes the legend, print the legend ", or so says Shinbone newspaper editor Carleton Young ( Ford's favoriteWASP ) to Senator Ransom Stoddard, played by Jimmy Stewart, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ".The Senator is back in Shinebone to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon ( John Wayne). Stoddard is famous, Doniphon unknown, and here is where the story takes off with Stewart telling Young and Paul Birch the real story of Liberty Valance.
Thought provoking western....
This is a well told story about the changing times of the Old West. Statehood and civilization stand poised on the edge of a small western town(Shinbone) anxiously awaiting a push to get started.An unlikely savior comes to town in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot lawyer named Ransom Stoddard(Jimmy Stewart).After his baptism by fire at the hands of Liberty Valance(Lee Marvin), while trying to defend a female passenger during a stage holdup, he is befriended by the rugged individualist Tom Doniphon(John Wayne).Stoddard brings ideals, law and order into a town that has pretensions for..but not much else.The town of Shinbone is full of good people and all the right things to make it completely civilized. What is needed is a spark or event to move them in the right direction. That spark or event is a showdown shootout with Liberty Valance and an unwitting Ransom Stoddard.The results, of the shootout, catapult the territory and Stoddard on to their destiny.
The twilight of the old west!
Liberty Valance is often cited as one of the top westerns of all time.The opening shot portrays the theme of the film--a locomotive chugging busily through wild country symbolizing the coming of civilization to the West.John Ford directs this classic black-and-white movie even though most filming by 1962 was done in color.Apparently Ford chose to film Liberty Valance in black-and-white to emphasize the classic theme.
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Josey wales
The movie I liked very much,one of the best he ever made.
One of Eastwoods Best Action Packed Westerns
At the time of its release, this was the best western that Eastwood had ever done with the exception of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Eastwood skillfully plays a sympathetic character whose wife and child are killed during the Civil War near Kansas by the Union "Redlegs" who are virtually roguing military. Seeking revenge for his loss, he joins a Bloody Bill Anderson's guerrilla unit that strikes unmercifully against the union forces. As the war ends, the majority of the unit comes in to surrender except for Josey and they are slaughtered by the Redlegs who seek retaliation. And there is your story; Josey becomes the hunted as he and one escaping companion are hunted virtually to eternity. Eastwood plays the character perfectly as he carries multiple pistols and weapons as Confederate cavalry did to even fire power, even with loaded cylinders that he can interchange with his pistols. Comical at times, as Eastwood seems to pick up lost souls from Indian Dan George (Little Bigman), to an abused female Indian, a cranky granny and her attractive yet pensive daughter (Locke) and even a red boned cur dog who suffers the indignity of Josey's spiteful but accurate tobacco spit (but the dog follows anyways). George has several lines that work as commentary onthe plight of the 'Civilized Tribes' and the Cherokees choice of backing the south. He also invokes great humor with lines like, "I didn't surrender, but they took my horse. He surrendered". The movie is a thrill a minute as Josey frequently has to shoot his way out of traps, accidental discoveries, the rescue of one of his lost souls and the climatic ending where he finally finds a peaceful place until he is found again not only by his old enemies but the Indians in his adopted home. In each circumstance where he finds himself confronted with danger and as always outnumbered, he always seeks an edge to give him some advantage, and when he spits, there is going to be some shooting. And there is a sub-climatic moment where Josey meets with his Indian counterpoint, recognizing that they have recently lived parallel lives, each being hunted and perhaps abused, making a statement that each deserves a better life. Not as sensitive as his best film the "Unforgiven" or perhaps as realistic, but action packed and entertaining.

On the Contrary, Great Eastwood
There is something about Clint Eastwood that allows him the luxury of delivering a cheesey macho line without looking like an ass. In a movie full of such lines, Eastwood really shines in this epic western. I have always wondered why the critics never gave this western its due, while normal every day joes continue to give it the thumbs up. I believe the answer lies in the sympathic portrayal of the Confederate outlaw who is Josey Wales. How dare anyone cast anything wearing a Confederate uniform in anything less than an evil light? Moreover, How dare anyone portray Union Soldiers as a bunch of marauding murderers who looted and pillaged their way through a defeated South? These are the type of thoughts likely dancing through the heads of liberal wine drinking cheese eating newspaper types while sitting down to disparage what is Eastwood's best movie.
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This 1969 film has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and--typical of its period--a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film, written by William Goldman (Read more

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Not a widescreen presentation
A great film however if you are going to promote the DVD as widescreen at least make it widescreen and not standard format.

Even if you're not a fan of Westerns...
... you may want to give this one a go.I'm amazed to realize that it's 37 years old; I think this film is going to end up among the classics when it gets a little older.I'm not a big Western-watcher at all.But I end up watching this one when it's televised because the cinematography is marvelous.It's what I loved when it first came out (I'm revealing my age) - that and William Goldman's screenplay.For those reasons, even if you don't care for shoot-em-ups, it's worthwhile.

Butch and Sundance Ride into Film History
Butch and Sundance is an amazing wonderful film: in this ultimate collectors edition it sparkles like a beautiful jewel. The package is complete (I always thought the 1997 version was missing William Goldman's commentary - this one has it!): if you were a fan of this terrific western when it first appeared in the first flush of 1969-70 you will not be disappointed to revisit with Butch and Sundance and their hole in the wall gang. Its also a great chance to listen in again as 3 beautiful stars and countless other key personnel recount what it was like to put this wonderful film together.
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No studio was better than Darryl Zanuck's 20th Century-Fox atdishing out lovingly textured Americana, of which this movie is a primeexample.The outlaw gets canonized as an American Robin Hood, anhonest farmer who, with post-Civil War Missouri overrun by corruptagents of the Railroad, had no choice but to start robbing banks andtrains to achieve a measure of social justice the System wouldn't provide. Tyrone Power as Jesse is quietly out-acted by Fox's emerging star HenryFonda as brother Frank.The supporting cast is solid--Randolph Scott,Nancy Kelly, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine (as Bob Ford), Jane Darwell,Donald Meek--but the liveliest thing in the movie is Henry Hull, playing anewspaperman whose editorials invariably prescribe that whomever he'sdenouncing be "taken out and shot like dawgs." Fonda, Hull, andCarradine re-created their roles the following year in Read more

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Jesse James rides again
A fun movie to watch that added to the legend of Jesse James.Was he the Robin Hood of the west as the movie protrays?Who cares, this is just classic old time western fun.A great cast that Includes Tyrone Powers Jr., Henry Fonda and Randolph Scott!!That is three aces right there.Follow the adventures of the James boys as they are almost forced to attack the evil railroads and the robber barons that ran them.Doesn't that sound familar in this age where many people distrust the big corporations of today?Really though, do not get to philosophical over this.It is a western, and a good one at that.

Awful, just awful
Whatever significance this film has, it derives from the stellar cast. Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda do a credible job portraying Jesse and Frank James despite a screenplay that takes criminal liberties with the historical record. You may find it entertaining, but don't come away from it thinking you've learned anything useful about the James boys. The distortions become all the more shocking when you realize that there were still people alive in western Missouri who remembered the original people and events when this silly thing was released.

Enjoyable movie, but historically inaccurate
"Jesse James" has talented actors, a quality script, and attractive, colorful cinematography. However, it is wildly inaccurate from a historical perspective. The way Jesse James is lionized in this movie is hard to stomach if you know the facts. I will concede that Jesse was a colorful, brave man who loved his family, and had a tough life growing up, but he was also a thief and a cold-blooded killer. That should be remembered when watching this movie, which is at least 50% fiction.Typical Hollywood propaganda. ... Read more

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Part of what was touted as a late-1980s revival of Westerns (and you can see how long that lasted), this good-looking, empty-brained film was like a spurs-and-chaps version of a Joel Schumacher movie, filled with pretty faces, prettier imagery, and absolutely no new ideas. The idiotically grinning Emilio Estevez is cast as Billy the Kid, who slowly accumulates a gang of Brat Pack buddies (Lou Diamond Phillips, Kiefer Sutherland, Dermot Mulroney) and fashions them into a group of male models with six-guns. The action is confused and the script is trite, though Terence Stamp is intriguing as the old reprobate who helps the gang get its act together. Followed by an even worse sequel. Read more

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One of the last great Westerns.
"Young Guns" stands with "Silverado," "Unforgiven," and "Tombstone" as the last of the great Westerns. The movie has a good story, good performances from the cast (Emilio, Kiefer, Lou, Charlie, etc.), solid direction, and action--everything a true devotee of the Western genre could ask for.Furthermore, I was pleased to find the movie to be a fairly accuarate portrayal of the Lincoln County War and Billy the Kid.And I was surprised to learn that Billy's real name was Henry McCarty and that he was not left-handed. Imagine that--Hollywood rejecting a myth and presenting the truth.Scary, right?Granted, Terence Stamp was older than the real John Tunstall, but that gentleman was a father figure to Billy (one account claims that Tunstall considered Billy "the finest lad he ever met)and Mr. Stamp captures the essence of Tunstall perfectly.I shared the grief that the Regulators felt at John's funeral.
"I like these odds."
Modern made western, re-telling the historical and dramatic events that unfolded in Lincoln County, New Mexico.The film attempts to cover the beginning of the Lincoln County wars and the rise and early fame of Billy the Kid.The movie portrays William H. Bonney (E. Estevez) as a trigger-happy, zealous renegade who shoots first and asks questions later.Dick Brewer (C. Sheen) and Doc Scurlock (K. Sutherland) are Billy's fellow Regulators and early members of his gang.Supportive characters in the movie are John Tunstall (T. Stamp), Billy's early mentor; and L.G. Murphy (J. Palance), the evil cattle baron of Lincoln County.The movie depicts how Billy came under the care of Tunstall, then turned into a Regulator, and then into the most infamous outlaw in the American West.
Rare Laserdiscs - dvds Movies Collector.
I have Young Guns (Special Edition) dvd,'tis a great Western movie,A Must See For Emilio Estevez's Fans :P
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Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the "man with no name" theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as "the Stranger." He rides into the desert town of Lagos and is quickly attacked by three gunmen. Recovering with the aid of a local dwarf (a memorable role for Billy Curtis), the Stranger is hired by the intimidated townsfolk to fend off a band of violent ex-convicts. After teaching the citizens self-defense and instructing them to paint the entire town red and rename it "Hell," the Stranger vanishes. He reappears when the marauding criminals arrive, and delivers justice and teaches the townsfolk a harsh lesson about moral obligation. Is he a figure from their past or a kind of supernatural avenger? Combining humor with action, Read more

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"Only problem you've got Sheriff is a short supply of guts."
By the late 1960s Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood (Pale Rider, Unforgiven) had certainly established himself as an actor with such features as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Hang 'Em High (1968), Where Eagles Dare (1968) before also taking on the role as director in his film Play Misty for Me (1971).High Plains Drifter (1973) was Eastwood's 2nd directing gig, written by Ernest Tidyman (Shaft, The French Connection) and featuring Eastwood himself.Also appearing is Verna Bloom (Animal House), Geoffrey Lewis (Every Which Way But Loose), Marianna Hill (Schizoid), Mitch Ryan (Lethal Weapon), Jack Ging (SSSSSSS), Stefan Gierasch (Silver Streak), Ted Hartley (Ice Station Zebra), Walter Barnes (Every Which Way But Loose), Anthony James (Unforgiven), Dan Vadis (Bronco Billy), and Billy Curtis, one of many little people featured in the film The Wizard of Oz (1939).
An early directorial gem from Eastwood.
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER was only Clint Eastwood's second film as a director, but it demonstrates the sure hand, unusual tone and solid craftsmanship that would later mark such films as UNFORGIVEN.Cut very much from the same cloth as some of the moodier Italo-Westerns, HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER tells a hard-edged tale of hypocrisy, revenge and murder that never stops surprising the audience.
Best horror/western
This movie is amazing.The Stranger comes out of the ether in the beginning of the movie as a lone horserider appears like a blurry mirage riding through the desert.He enters the small mining town of Lago.All eyes are on him as he rides down the street.What happens next is original, violent, and politically incorrect.This movie should be seen by all fans of westerns and the twilight zone.
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Billy the Kid is reimagined by director Sam Peckinpah as a kind of Old West rock star, a young man who wants to do his own thing but constantly runs up against the objections of the establishment--in this case, the cattle barons who run this part of the country. Peckinpah indulged in some quirky casting, including Bob Dylan as an outlaw named Alias and most of Kristofferson's band as Billy's gang. He also draws exceptional performances out of a cast of old veterans, including James Coburn as the reluctant Pat Garrett, R.G. Armstrong, Katy Jurado, and Slim Pickens, who has a terrific death scene to Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Look for this longer version (122 minutes); the shorter version is the one that MGM recut against Peckinpah's wishes, removing all the character development and Peckinpah's elegiac sense of the Old West in favor of action and violence. Read more

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A Masterpiece That Can't Seem To Escape Controversy
I am very conflicted in praise for this special edition.
Ranks with "The Shootist" for "Best Ever Western"
Sheriff Colin Baker's (Slim Pickens) death with his wife (Katy Jurado) by him stunned me.I had heard "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" hundreds of times, but now, with Bob Dylan singing the ballad in the background, it truly made me feel what was going between these two excellent actors.

A Tale of the Christ
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is one of the darkest of films; death and loss seem to pervade every scene.The film mourns the death of the western film (it is the last great western), the end of the frontier period, and is the last film of many western actors.
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Jesse James? no! Colin Farrell? YES!
I bought this DVD to see young Farrell in action, and I had a nice run for my money! This well made film is no attempt at showing the real story of Jesse James. It's more a showcase for Colin and a bunch ofyoung promising actors who apparently enjoyed themselves a lot doing that movie. Colin Farrell is gorgeous and does not yet display those hideous tattoos that have mared his skin lately. Tim Dalton and Kathy Bates are great too as mature characters. Never a dull moment even if the plot has no surprises! Very enjoyable western movie not to take too seriously. The DVD transfer is spectacular on a wide screen.

"how to take an exciteing story about the west and ruin it "
that should be the name of this fiction told as fact. the history in the movie couldn't be more wrong and why do you need to jazz up a story that has enough real action,so that it plays like a watered down third grade play. the leads and the cast try but this is one that never had a chance.

Stink Bomb Alert
While not the absolute worst Western ever made, American Outlaws is certainly a contender for any "worst Western" listing.No Western can be completely historically accurate, but the anachronisms and complete fantasies contained within this film guarantee it a well-deserved place in the toiletbowl of film history. ... Read more

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Clint Eastwood (the Man with No Name) is good, Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes Sentenza) is bad, and Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez) is ugly in the final chapter of Sergio Leone's trilogy of spaghetti westerns (the first two were Read more

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you know nothing about Tuco
One of Leone's most memorable flicks,Clint Eastwood reprises his role for the third time as the man with no name,or Blondie,in this flick.In this installment,a kind of Rat Race-type situation occurs where a lone ranger,a robber,and a baddie get involved in a plot to get $50,000 first.There begind a perilous journey of betrayal,murder,and revenge.I especially like the character Tuco,with his quick,fast wit and hillarious habits,it's hard not to laugh.Lee Van Clef is also brilliant as angel Eyes,the baddie in the flick who tries to take out Blondie and Tuco.It's a roller coaster ride to the end.

This film finally gets the red carpet treatment from MGM!!!
Finally "The Good,The Bad and The Ugly" finally gets the red carpet treatment it deserves from the guys at MGM Home Entertainment!!! This superlative 2-DVD set includes the extended version of the film in both English and Italian!!! Wow!!! It sports BOTH great picture and sound!!! It also contains a wealth of extras to enjoy!!! This great DVD set will keep you amuzed for hours!!! And to cap it off,it comes in a nice collector's case!!! A very well rounded package of a very superior western starring Clint Eastwood,Lee Van Cleef,and Eli Wallach!!! Sure, it costs "a few dollars more" than the standard single disc version but it's well worth the money!!! Two thumbs up!!! Five stars!!! A+

WHAT'S THIS!!--BLOOPER?
I SAW THIS MOIVE AS A YOUNG TEENAGER WHEN THIS CAME OUT AT THE
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One Star For Violence--Five Stars For Heroism

Watch Clint Eastwood in action...redefined the notion of a truly great hero in the wild wild west!
I recently bought a Clint Eastwood Gift Set on special offer, consisting of three of his action movies on DVDs, namely, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More & The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly.