More depth GBU Extras news..

[The Smoker]

• Extended 3-Hour Version
• 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
• Digitally Remastered With English 5.1 Audio
• Italian Mono
• English, French, Spanish, Cantonese and

Mandarin subtitles
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel

• “Leone’s West” - Retrospective making-of documentary featuring new interviews with

cast and crew, including Clint Eastwood, and
behind-the-scenes footage

• “The Leone Style” - Documentary on

Sergio Leone and his impact on the spaghetti western film genre

• “The Man Who Lost the Civil War” - Historical documentary on the Civil War
• “Reconstructing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

- Featurette which focuses on the process of reconstruction and talent audio re-recordings
for the fully restored version of the film

• “Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good,

the Bad and the Ugly” - Featurette on Composer
Ennio Morricone featuring behind-the-scenes photos

• Extended Scene - A never-before-seen

extended version of the "Tuco Torture" scene

• "The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction"

- Three-minute animated sequence of a deleted scene

• French trailer - Includes film clips that were deleted from the final version of the film
• Poster Gallery - Features eight international theatrical posters
• Original theatrical trailer - Two-minute trailer as shown in theaters
• 4 Easter Eggs:

  "Uno, Due, Tre"
   "Italian Lunch"
   "New York Actor"
   "Gun In Holster"



Please don't let it be a over the top' wam-bam remastered sound effect soundtrack. It could ruin the event for me.  ::)

[General Sibley]

Bravo - awesome!

"Extended Tuco Torture Scene" - as if the thumbs in the eyes wasn't bad enough.   Does Wallace try to castrate him too?  

[The Smoker]

Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel

Im not overly keen about this guys talkies... ive been subjected to his OUATITA one already..
listening to most film critics makes me want to chew my own hand off.  

• “The Man Who Lost the Civil War” - Historical documentary on the Civil War

hmmm this sound familiar but last time it was the railway  ::)

Sorry folks on a bit of a winge-a-thon

Everythings lookin sweet for April n May

[El Bon]

The behind the scenes footage sounds great. I have always wondered if there was any as i have never seen any. I doubt if there is any on FOD or FAFDM...unless anyone knows different.
The animated socorro sequence sounds intriguing!!
I have two stills of Tuco firing a cannon and i read somewhere that this was after Blondie fires the cannon at Tuco. Although watching this scene it is difficult to see the cut.  I believe like the socorro scene it was cut before the full Italian version was put togehter.

[Walter]

Im not overly keen about this guys talkies... ive been subjected to his OUATITA one already..
listening to most film critics makes me want to chew my own hand off.  ;)hmmm this sound familiar but last time it was the railway  

I know what you mean about OUATIA, but his comments on Unforgiven was very entertaining, if not overly informative.

[BDR529]

OK, sooo... sorry if this is a dumb question   but the DVD will contain ONLY the extended reissue from last year?  (It was last year, right?  Time flies)  If so I'm really gonna smack myself in the face, because I won't be able to avoid buying it the day it's in stores (in fact, since I sleep in pretty late I'll probably sleepwalk to Tower down the street and buy it) but I really couldn't stand the extended version and would almost consider it blasphemy.  It's kind of like when a respected author dies while writing his last book, so his family hires a writer to "finish" it for him, publishing it under the late author's name as his "discovered last novel".  I thought the GBU project was a noble idea and I can tell they loved the film and worked damn hard, but to me it failed.

[cigar joe]

Its hard to say perhaps it will be better on the DVD that the version that was put together for the film. To me it fills in the small gaps in the story line, I'll cherish both versions.

[El Bon]

with regard to the extended Tuco torture scene. I thought that the full version of this scene was on the 162min anyway. Did anyone in the UK tape the movie when it was first shown on TV by the BBC which was the BBFC cut version. (although it had the scene with Tuco in the gunsmith which was  cut when shown in cinemas in the UK). Then ITV had the rights to it and this had the BBFC cuts reinstated ( Maria & Tuco's beating).  This was the same as the version on video.
                                                                                     Then there is the French trailer on the new dvd with new scenes!!!!!  

[The Smoker]

DVD times have a shot of the R2 DVD cover. looks like a fake its so bad.  
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=10677
Quite bland incomparison to R1 Collecters shots posted a month ago ofcourse.