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Alex Film Society, in association with the Autry National Center presents Sergio Leoné’s THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY with special guests Sir Christopher Frayling & Alessandro Alessandroni Saturday, July 23, 2005 at 7 pm Alex Film Society P O Box 4807, Glendale, CA 91222 • 818.754.8250 • AlexFilmSociety.org THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY Techinicolor – 1966 – 179 minutes ALBERTO GRIMALDI PRODUCTIONS S.A. Restoration print courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., A Sony Pictures Entertainment Company. Directed by ......................................................Sergio Leone Cinematographer .........................................Tonino Delli Colli Produced by ....................................................Alberto Grimaldi Composer .......................................................Ennio Morricone Story by ............................................................Liciano Vincenzoni & Editors ..............................................................Nino Baragli & Sergio Leone Eugenio Alabiso Screenplay by .................................................Liciano Vincenzoni, Cast Agenore Incrocci, Blondie (aka Man With No Name) ...........Clint Eastwood Furio Scarpelli & Sentenza ..........................................................Lee Van Cleef Sergio Leone Tuco ...................................................................Eli Wallach Production & Costume Designer .............Carlo Simi Union Captain ................................................Aldo Giuffrè Father Pablo Ramirez ...................................Luigi Pistilli talian exploitation cinema of the would be followed by For a Few Dollars ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRONI 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s ran in cycles. More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and IThe first cycle of sword and sandal the Ugly (1966). Eli Wallach and Lee Alessandroni grew up in the town of epics gave way to graphic widescreen Van Cleef, Hollywood veterans, joined Soriano nel Cimino, 40 miles north westerns, these in turn competed with Clint for the final outing of the saga and of Rome. His childhood friend Ennio James Bond spy knockoffs and horror would both appear in numerous other Morricone invited him to collaborate films. As author Sir Christopher Frayling titles in the genre. on the score for director Sergio Leone’s points out in SERGIO LEONE Something spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars To Do With Death, the spaghetti western The graphic style of the Leone western, (his distinctive, haunting whistle was an outgrowth of the success of the with intense close-ups, minimal dialogue became the signature tune to the series Karl May series of Teutonic westerns and elaborately staged action sequences of Westerns all’Italiana). His quartet featuring Old Shatterhand (Lex Barker) soon became the industry standard. expanded into a sixteen-member group and his noble Indian companion The signature music scores created by renamed “I Cantori Moderni” (The Winnetou. At the same time, the Ennio Morricone became popular LP’s Modern Singers), who became known collapse of the Samuel Bronston studios and featured the haunting whistling of for their original sound and consummate in Spain (El Cid, 55 Days at Peking, Alessandro Alessandroni. The Good the professionalism. Circus World, The Fall of the Roman Bad and the Ugly, produced for $1.3 Empire) had created a generation million dollars, sold over $6 million THE RESTORATION of Spanish technicians trained to admissions in the US alone. Hollywood standards. In 2002, American Movie Classics (AMC) provided funding for the restoration Into this mix came Italian filmmaker SIR CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING of approximately 16 minutes of scenes Sergio Leone with a script for The that had been part of the film’s Rome Magnificent Stranger. He needed a Sir Christopher Frayling is Rector of premiere in 1966, but deleted from the leading man to play the cigarillo the Royal College of Art, the only American prints. Archivist John Kirk smoking stranger who would become wholly postgraduate university of art of M-G-M Technical Services oversaw know as “The Man With No Name”. and design in the world, and Professor a project that included recording American actors were a common sight of Cultural History at the College. additional English dialogue with actors along the Via Veneto during these In addition, he is Chairman of Arts Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach. Voice years and Guy Madison, Richard Egan, Council England. Sir Christopher was over artist Simon Prescott provided the Brett Halsey, Rory Calhoun and others knighted for “services to art and design growling voice for Angel Eyes since Lee found regular employment in low education” in January 2001. Well-known Van Cleef had passed away. budget costume dramas and action as a historian, critic, and award-winning films. Leone signed Clint Eastwood, a broadcaster, Frayling has published 13 The Cineteca Nazionale in Italy provided onetime Universal contract player now books and numerous articles on the arts, a good negative of the Italian cut, new appearing in the seventh season of the popular culture, design, and the history 35mm prints were stuck, and audio CBS western “Rawhide”, to play the of ideas, one being his vast biography remixed in stereo 5.1 by Intersound. lead in his production that would be of Sergio Leone, and most recently, Triage, a top restoration house, handled released as A Fistful of Dollars. Shot on the accompanying book to the Autry’s the final film work, replacing the Italian a budget of some $200,000 it became exhibition, “Once Upon a Time in Italy… titles with English versions. an international sensation (although The Westerns of Sergio Leone”. Glenn Erickson, www.dvdtalk.com not released in the US until 1967) and .