"The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" - German BluRay specs

20th Century Fox Germany has announced the release of Sergio Leone's classic The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo).

TB&U is the final installment of the Dollars trilogy, and is apparently the first one to be released on BluRay by MGM (same procedure as they did with the Special Editions of their Leone catalogue). The other two titles are already available in Italy:
- "Fistful of Dollars" - contains English mono soundtrack and English subtitles for the feature film
- "For a Few Dollars More" - contains Italian audio only, however it is fully uncut (the MGM release is not).

Anyway, FOX Germany was the first to make an official announcement and declare the specs. The selection of the audio tracks hint that this will be a Pan-European + Asia release, so it will be probably locked to "Code B+C".

The release date is 04/24/2009 (retail)

UPD: Oh yeah, this is of course the Extended Version (identical to the Italian version except it contains the Grotto scene and the less violent American version of the Tuco torture scene).

The differences to the Special Edition DVD are following:
- Additional Commentary track by Sir Christopher Frayling
- English 1.0 Mono audio track
- Italian 2.0 Mono audio track (only R1 DVD had this one before)
Also, I wonder if they included the original theatrical trailer (the SE contained only the French trailer with unseen footage; only the first DVD edition contained the English trailer)

German cover art:


Disc Specifications:
Picture format: 2.35:1
System: HD 1080p
Media: BD50
Packaging: Amaray

Language tracks:
- DTS HD 5.1 English
- DTS 5.1 German
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
- Dolby Digital 1.0 English
- Dolby Digital 2.0 (mono) Italian
- Dolby Digital 5.1 French
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Portuguese
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Thai

Subtitles:
- English for Hard of Hearing, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Korean, Thai

Extra Features:
- Audio Commentary by film historian Richard Schickel
- Audio Commentary by Sir Christopher Frayling
Documentaries:
- Leone's West
- Leone's Style
- The Man Who Lost The Civil War
- Restoration Italian Style: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
- Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone (I)
- Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone (II)
- Deleted Scenes
- Theatrical Trailer

Source: Cinefacts

There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those in the EU and Asia, and the people who will have to wait for the Region A release.

I have no such info; the info by Fox says "178 minutes" only. I suppose this will be only the longer cut.

There definitely is a mono version of the English track extended cut of the film; it featured on German TV via terrestric two-channel sound (German on one channel, English on another). Don't know why they didn't include it on any DVD release. However I also don't have any info if it is actually unedited (i.e. without new sound effects).