Dollars Trilogy LE (4K-UHD) ***Preorder*** 5/18

A Fistful of Dollars wasn't the first spaghetti western, but the genre was never the same again after Sergio Leone's audacious breakthrough. Starring Clint Eastwood in the role that made him an international icon, the film introduces a nameless stranger who rides into a Mexican border town torn apart by a vicious power struggle between two rival families, the Baxters and the Rojos. His only chance of escape is a standoff against the latter's merciless leader, Ramón (Gian Maria Volonté).

With For a Few Dollars More, Leone expanded the canvas of his mythic, feverish vision and refined his unmistakable signature. Two rival bounty killers (Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef) hunt the same target: the psychopathic bandit "El Indio" (Volonté). Forming an uneasy alliance, the pair infiltrate El Indio's gang... but as greed begets violence, the hunters become the hunted, leading to a final showdown in a circle of death.

Leone's trilogy concludes with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, a violent, picaresque epic of operatic scale. When Blondie (Eastwood) and the treacherous Tuco (Eli Wallach) learn of a buried cache of Confederate gold, they are drawn into a desperate race against Angel Eyes (Van Cleef), a ruthless mercenary with his own twisted code of honour. Set against the devastation of the American Civil War, their pursuit builds to one of cinema's most iconic three-way standoffs, bringing Leone's grand sense of dramatic scale to its apotheosis.

Arrow Films is proud to present this landmark Western trilogy in the most comprehensive edition ever assembled, all meticulously restored in glorious 4K, with a wealth of new and archival bonus materials.

Product Features

8-DISC 4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

• Limited Edition trilogy slipcase featuring newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
• Three double-sided fold-out posters featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
• Perfect-bound booklet featuring writing by Henry Blyth, Bilge Ebiri, Priscilla Page, Glenn Kenny, Howard Hughes and James Flower
• 4K restorations of all three films from the original negatives, including the International and Extended Cuts of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• 4K UHD Blu-ray™ presentations in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Newly restored lossless mono and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Newly restored lossless Italian mono, DTS-HD MA 5.1 and optional English subtitles on A Fistful of Dollars
• Audio commentaries on all three films by Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling and film historian Tim Lucas
• Audio commentary on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by film historian Richard Schickel
• Interviews with editor Eugenio Alabiso, guitarist Bruno Battisti D'Amario, filmmaker Paolo Bianchini, Ennio Morricone biographer Alessandro de Rosa, Stefano Delli Colli (son of cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli), singer Edda Dell'Orso, Lee Van Cleef biographer Mike Malloy, film historian Fabio Melelli, post-production supervisor Enzo Oconi, assistant cameraman Sergio Salvati, Giacomo Scarpelli (son of co-writer Furio Scarpelli), and Giuditta Simi (daughter of set/costume designer Carlo Simi)
• Visual essays exploring each film's iconic soundtrack by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
• Archival interviews with Frayling, Eastwood, co-star Marianne Koch, and Leone collaborators Mickey Knox, Sergio Donati and Alberto Grimaldi
• Hour-long interview with Leone, filmed in 1983
• A Fistful of Dollars US TV opening scene, and an archival interview with director Monte Hellman
• Archival featurettes on For a Few Dollars More's remastering for DVD and original American release version
• Archival featurettes on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Leone's West, The Leone Style, Reconstructing the Film, Il Maestro Parts One and Two, The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction
• Archival location featurettes
• Alternate credit sequences
• Comprehensive trailer and image galleries
• Sad Hill Unearthed, a feature-length 2017 documentary by filmmaker Guillermo de Oliveira, following fan efforts to restore the graveyard set, with accompanying extras Lost in the Editing Room, The Making of the Film, The Making of the Original Soundtrack, World Premiere Q&A and Sad Hill in January 2020