The Kino Lorber 4K of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly has the original theatrical mono mix. Sounds great with all of the original gunshot and foley sounds.
I'm disappointed that Let There Be Rock is only issued in the mono mix, as the stereo master tapes clearly exist for the concert (which is the only thing about the movie that matters), and also for Rock and Roll High School only being issued in mono.
Thanks for this - highly informative! So does this mean that the older films (Snow White and Gone with the Wind) are basically “fake” stereo? Or did the microphone feeds have enough separation that it’s a convincing true stereo mix?