Arrow Video has announced the the release of Sergio Leone’s groundbreaking Spaghetti Western trilogy – A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and The Ugly – in three glorious 4K restorations from the original Techniscope negatives to be released individually in May, June and July 2025. Equipped with an arsenal of new and old bonus material, alongside newly commissioned artwork from Tony Stella, experience Clint Eastwood’s iconic role that made him an international icon. The Man with No Name rides again like never before.
At present Arrow has only rekleased the full details of the Limited Edition UHD and Blu-ray release of A Fistful of Dollars – we will list the special features on the discs of For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and The Ugly when they are confirmed in February and March respectively.
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A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (Italy / Spain / West Germany, 1964)
Limited Edition 4K UHD (£34.99) | Limited Edition Blu-ray (£29.99) | 21 April 2025
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!
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'
The Limited Edition Blu-ray will have the same special features but a High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation.
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FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (Italy / Spain / West Germany, 1965)
Limited Edition 4K UHD (£34.99) | Limited Edition Blu-ray (£29.99) | 26 May 2025
In 1964, Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars introduced audiences to a new, edgier breed of Western. The following year, he demonstrated that the first film was no fluke with For a Few Dollars More, cementing Clint Eastwood's "Man with No Name" as a genre icon and spawning a legion of imitators.
In the Old West, two rival bounty killers (Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef) hunt the same target: the psychopathic bandit known as "El Indio" (Gian Maria Volonté). The price on his head is high - but one of the hunters harbours a secret personal vendetta. Forming an uneasy alliance, the pair succeed in infiltrating El Indio's gang... but as greed begets violence, the hunters become the hunted, leading to a final showdown in a circle of death.
Made with a much higher budget than its predecessor, For a Few Dollars More expanded the canvas of Leone's mythic, feverish vision of the western and further developed his unmistakable authorial signature. Fully uncut and newly restored in sumptuous 4K with a plethora of new and archival bonus features, the Man with No Name returns in deadly style.
FULL SPECS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN FEBRUARY,
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Italy / Spain / West Germany, USA 1965)
With the two preceding films in his "Dollars" trilogy having unleashed a boom in Euro Western productions, Sergio Leone knew that his concluding chapter would have to top them all. Armed with his largest budget yet, Leone created what is, for many, the final word on the subject - a violent, picaresque epic presented with operatic scope and intensity, with Clint Eastwood donning the iconic hat and poncho one last time.
A partnership between two scoundrels, Blondie (Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) goes awry, only for fate to intervene in the form of information about a cache of stolen Confederate gold buried in a graveyard. Each possessing a different clue to its location, the pair are forced into a distrustful partnership. However, the gold is also sought by Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless mercenary with his own twisted code of honour. Thus begins a desperate pursuit amidst the mass destruction and absurdity of the American Civil War, culminating in an iconic three-way standoff inside the graveyard.
Mythic, cynical and endlessly entertaining, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly brings Leone's grand sense of dramatic scale to its apotheosis. Arrow Films is proud to present this landmark Western in the most comprehensive edition ever assembled, featuring multiple cuts of the film, all meticulously restored in glorious 4K, and a wealth of new and archival bonus materials.
FULL SPECS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN MARCH. |