The first time you saw this film

[Dirty Rat]

On TV in the very late 80's after becoming obsessed with the GBU

[Christian]

I saw it for first time  when I was around 8 years old (in 1968 I think) in a old cinema of my neigborhood. Of course they objected to let me pass (I was supposed to be 21 years old) Anyway I was able to see (through a gap in the door) the scene when the bad guys shoot to the mule, and Clint ends hanging from the tavern sign

[iceman]

I seem to remember I was at school...probably 1968 ish (I would be around 15 or 16) and a whole bunch of us getting hooked on the trilogy. We used to take a small tape recorder into the cinema to record the soundtracks (still got them somewhere and we even used to pinch the posters which were put up around town advertising the films. We used to think Ennio was God and searched everywhere for the records and LP's. The first was by "the Hollywood soundmakers"...rubbish really but brilliant at the time...check it out here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTb9PdaDTLs

We then found the GBU soundtrack then the RCA Camdem Soundtracks for FOD/FAFDM all readily available now but like gold then. Then "The Best of Ennio Morricone". It really came into its own with the advent of Video VHS and you could then get the films from TV...brilliant.

Ah! so nostalgic....they were brilliant exciting times.....we didn't need drugs or computer games or tv's in every room to have fun....

ICE

[Senza]

I was about 10, and didn't really give any thoughts to movie ratings so I went to the video store and picked up the DVD [my mum was still looking around in the shelves, and I had some money on me, so I figured I might as well go up to the front counter and pay for the rental myself]. I went up, and one of the ladies working there took the DVD out of my hands, and pointed to the R 18+ rating on the front DVD cover, also looking at me with a very suspicious look, and told me she couldn't let me rent the movie because of this rating [which I had no idea about]. I remember feeling like some sort of criminal, so I had to wait for my mum to finish looking around and picking up a few titles for herself [this took about 25 minutes, so I just waiting there, for mum to rent FOD for me]. Once my mum came to the front counter, and paid for all the rentals, the rest was history...