WITCHES (dvd,1967)*NEW* Clint Eastwood, and 12 similar items

Brand new factory sealed dvd is Out Of Print (OOP) and no longer being manufactured in any format. The cover is a reversible sleeve with newly commissioned artwork. United Artist bought the movie and never released it, but put it into a vault and forgot about it. Speculation is Clint Eastwood was a rising Western star as he was shooting his spaghetti Westerns at the same time this was made and they did not want to detract from that image. The film gained a legendary unseen reputation so here is the Italian version, restored from original film elements and presented in 2K definition. Features the complete English-language version on home video for the first time ever anywhere in a standard format. Five episodes by five differant directors about a witch played in all episodes by Silvana Mangano: WITCH BURNED ALIVE is about a famous actress who arrives at an Austrian chalet to spend the evening with friends. The woman is gotten drunk by the guests, and when she falls unconscious, friends remove her make-up to see the imperfections in her face, always believed to be beautiful with unpleasent revelations. CIVIC SPIRIT has a man wounded in a traffic accident. A woman stops her car and offers him a ride to the hospital. The woman, however, only does this to pass the road traffic. When she arrives at her destination, she throws the man out. EARTH SEEN FROM the MOON: This comic episode tells the story of a red-headed father and son. The father has just lost his wife and wants a new one. He finds a deaf girl among the shacks on the outskirts of Rome and makes her his new wife. To buy a better house nearby, he concocts a plan for her to threaten to commit suicide by jumping from the Colosseum, and then take up a collection to save her, but she slips on a bannana peel and falls, and is buried next to his former wife. SICILLIAN BELLE: In this episode, a woman tells her father that a man made a pass at her; he retaliates by massacring the entire family. AN EVENING LIKE the OTHERS: Clint Eastwood is a Western movie lover who does not know how to change the flat relationship with his wife. One day he disguises himself as a cowboy gunslinger to entertain his wife, but she is not impressed and he realizes their relationship is broken forever. In the final scene, she imagines herself as a glamorous star, walking along in an evolving series of high fashion while being ogled by a growing crowd of middle-aged businessmen. She lastly dons a magnificent gown made of multiple layers of silk, each in a vibrant shade, which she peels away layer by layer.