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Clint Eastwood is ‘The Man With No Name’

Clint Eastwood finds his way to Blu-ray again this June.  The four-time Academy Award-winner will be forever immortalized on the Blu-ray format when The Man With No Name Trilogy set arrives on retail shelves everywhere on June 1st courtesy of MGM Home Entertainment.  The Blu-ray three-pack includes A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.  Check out the full press release below from MGM that lists all the special features you can expect to find within this Blu-ray set.  What a perfect Father’s Day present!

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (April 12, 2010) – Four-time Academy Award-winner* Clint Eastwood stars in The Man With No Name Trilogy arriving on Blu-ray Disc June 1 from MGM Home Entertainment. Perfect for Father’s Day gift giving and Blu-ray Disc enthusiasts, the set includes A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and will be available for the suggested retail price $69.99 U.S. / $89.99 Canada.

Sergio Leone’s trilogy of operatic spaghetti Westerns with Clint Eastwood made the former television star into an international sensation as the scraggly, silent Man with No Name, a wandering rogue with a scheming mind and a sense of humor drier than the dusty, wind-scoured desert. The first in the collection, A Fistful of Dollars, a unique take on Kurosawa’s cynical samurai hit Yojimbo, reveals the transformation of the Western hero into a crafty mercenary.

The follow-up, For a Few Dollars More, teams Eastwood up in an uneasy alliance with Lee Van Cleef (High Noon) in a tale of revenge. But the masterpiece of the set is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, an epic scramble for buried gold set against the violence of the Civil War. In this film good is a relative term as three criminals make a series of tenuous partnerships broken in double-crosses and betrayals in Leone’s epic vision of the American southwest as endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen.

A Fistful Of Dollars Blu-ray Disc Bonus Features:
? The Christopher Frayling Archives: A Fistful of Dollars
? Commentary by Film Historian Christopher Frayling
? A New Kind of Hero
? A Few Weeks in Spain: Clint Eastwood on the Experience of Making the Film
? Tre Voci: A Fistful of Dollars
? Not Ready for Primetime: Renowned Filmmaker Monte Hellman discusses the Television Broadcast of A Fistful of Dollars
? The Network Prologue with Actor Harry Dean Stanton
? Location Comparisons: Then to Now
? 10 Radio Spots
? Double Bill Trailer
? Theatrical Trailer

For A Few Dollars More Blu-ray Disc Bonus Features:
? The Christopher Frayling Archives: For A Few Dollars More
? Commentary by Film Historian Christopher Frayling
? A New Standard: Frayling on For A Few Dollars More
? Back for More: Clint Eastwood Remembers For A Few Dollars More
? Tre Voci: For A Few Dollars More
? For A Few Dollars More: The Original American Release Version
? Location Comparisons
? 12 Radio Spots
? Theatrical Trailer 1
? Theatrical Trailer 2

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Blu-ray Disc Bonus Features:
? Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel
? Commentary by Film Historian Christopher Frayling
? Leone’s West
? The Leone Style
? The Man Who Lost the Civil War
? Reconstructing The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
? IL Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly – Part One
? IL Maestro: Part Two
? Deleted Scenes
? Extended Tuco Torture Scene
? The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction
? Easter Egg #1 Uno, Due, Tre
? Easter Egg #2 Italian Lunch
? Easter Egg #3 New York Actor
? Easter Egg #4 Gun in Holster
? Theatrical Trailer
? French Trailer

Pre-order your Blu-ray set today!