TServo2049 said:

captainsolo said:

TServo2049 said:

The Blu-ray includes a mono track...but it's a fold-down of the modern remix! All the other MGM Leone films include the original mono (albeit not lossless), but TGTBATU doesn't.

This is exactly what MGM did when they released a newly extended cut of Duck, You Sucker! on DVD. The "Mono" option was merely a folddown of the 5.1, and while it was nowhere near as intrusive as the bastard GBU mix, it features the wrong music in several spots!

Funny that, John Kirk says he changed nothing music wise, and Glenn "DVD Savant" Erickson, who worked at MGM when the uncut LD was released and knows more about the film than anyone, says the music matches both LDs.

But if the DVD indeed has "fake mono," then track down the 1998 A Fistful of Dynamite LD, which has both digital and CX mono.

Could the other two films also have fake mono?

The 98 LD indeed has the original mono mix with line variations that are not present in the 2007 5.1/mono mixes. The cues are different as well in several places. The only thing this LD version lacks is the full end flashback and the final "What about me?" line. The new mix is WRONG. And theatrically it didn't sound too good either.

Fistful and FAFDM do feature their original tracks, though they may have been sweetened or mussed with a bit. FAFDM fixes a sync problem that was introduced with the first DVD release.