Arrow UK - The Dollar Trilogy 4K

[John Johnson]

It wasn't really the first film of its kind, but the western all'Italiana - or "spaghetti Western" - was never the same again after Sergio Leone's groundbreaking A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood in the classic role that made him an international icon.

A nameless stranger (Eastwood) rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel and quickly finds himself in the middle of a bloody battle for power between two rival families, the Baxters and the Rojos. Cannily realising there's money to be made from playing each side against the other, the Man with No Name soon finds himself caught in the crossfire as the body count escalates, his only chance of escape a standoff against the Rojos' mercilessly cruel leader, Ramón (Gian Maria Volonté).

Leone's clever and contemporary inversion of Western archetypes was not only the first entry in a much-beloved trilogy, but the director's first collaboration with the brilliant composer Ennio Morricone. Now fully uncut and freshly restored in glorious 4K with an arsenal of new and old bonus material, the Man with No Name rides again like never before!

Product Features

4K ULTRA-HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
Perfect bound collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Henry Blyth, Bilge Ebiri, Pasquale Iannone and Eloise Ross
Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella

DISC 1 - FEATURE (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)

New 4K restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope negative
4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original English and Italian front and end titles
Newly restored original lossless English and Italian mono audio
Optional newly remixed lossless English and Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
Audio commentary by film historian and Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling
Audio commentary by film historian and critic Tim Lucas
Trailers, TV spots and radio spots

DISC 2 - EXTRAS (BLU-RAY)

When It All Started, a newly filmed interview with film historian and critic Fabio Melelli
Four Fingers Four Picks, a newly filmed interview with guitarist Bruno Battisti D'Amario
Wind & Fire, a newly filmed interview with Morricone biographer Alessandro de Rosa
A Night at the Movies, a newly filmed interview with filmmaker Paolo Bianchini
A Fistful of Outtakes, highlights from the original rushes
The Day the Soundtrack Changed, a new visual essay by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon exploring the film's iconic score
Marisol: Leone's Madonna of the West, an archival interview with co-star Marianne Koch
The Frayling Archives and A New Kind of Hero, two archival interviews with Sir Christopher Frayling
A Few Weeks in Spain, an archival interview with Clint Eastwood
Tre Voci, an archival featurette with Leone collaborators Mickey Knox, Sergio Donati and Alberto Grimaldi
Opening scene with Harry Dean Stanton filmed for the film's US TV debut in 1975, plus an archival interview with the prologue's director Monte Hellman
Restoration Italian Style, an archival featurette on the film's remastering for DVD
Location Comparisons 1964-2004, an archival featurette
Alternate credits sequences
Three comprehensive image galleries: A Fistful of Pictures, On the Set and Promoting 'A Fistful of Dollars'

COMING IN MAY 2025... FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE!

COMING IN JUNE 2025... THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!

https://www.arrowfilms.com/4k/a-fistful ... 33518.html

[AndyDursin]

Looking forward to the preorders going up!

[Monterey Jack]

The Kino releases are good enough for me. I can't buy these goddamn movies yet again.

[AndyDursin]

Kino's UHDs alas lack HDR and have their odd color timing adjustments applied. Regrettably some of their MGM releases have been notably inferior to some other, comparable UHDs of the same titles - NIGHT OF THE HUNTER's German UHD has better encoding, Arrow's GREAT ESCAPE has HDR, etc.

Rarewaves has a 10% code, RWJAN10, going until tonight so it cost me just over $100 for the three. Had some Paypal credit so that bounced it down a little further.

I have no doubt these will really be the best releases of these films with as many audio options as you'd want. Looking forward to them!

[John Johnson]

Looks like the first two films are beginning to show SOLD OUT, some outlets are still showing in stock. One seller on Amazon has For A Few More Dollars 4K, listed at £699. YIKES

[AndyDursin]

That was fast!

Arrow will do standard editions of these so it's probably best to wait for those if you didn't preorder already.

[John Johnson]

That was fast!

Arrow will do standard editions of these so it's probably best to wait for those if you didn't preorder already.

Perhaps I will. On the subject of standard editions, I see Captain Kronos is now available as a standard edition. I'm guessing the same will apply to Quatermass II.

[John Johnson]

That was fast!

Arrow will do standard editions of these so it's probably best to wait for those if you didn't preorder already.

Andy,

Has this been confirmed?

[AndyDursin]

AFAIK it's not confirmed yet, but they always do standard versions, I don't think there's been any title that was limited and sold out that they didn't repress as a standard (non box) release.

I'm not sure these are even sold out or they're just out of stock. People thought LIFEFORCE "sold out" and was hot for a few weeks, then it was available again (the limited edition that is). I'd keep your eye out John, the Arrow discs have a tendency to do that.