The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1983 and MGM Home Entertainment in 1990. The film was first released on DVD by MGM Home Entertainment in 1998. The special features contain 14 minutes of scenes that were cut for the film's North American release, including a scene which explains how Angel Eyes came to be waiting for Blondie and Tuco at the Union prison camp. In 2002, the film was restored with the 14 minutes of scenes cut for US release re-inserted into the film. Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach were brought back in to dub their characters' lines more than 35 years after the film's original
Clint Eastwood in the 1960s all three were generally given bad reviews by critics (despite select American critics, who had seen the films in Italy, previously having positive outlooks) and marked the beginning of Eastwood's battle to win the respect of American film critics. Judith Crist described "A Fistful of Dollars" as "cheapjack" while "Newsweek" described "For a Few Dollars More" as "excruciatingly dopey". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was similarly panned by most critics upon US release. Renata Adler of "The New York Times" describing it as "the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history of its peculiar genre". "Variety"