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In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches... read more read more... for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and the Ugly (Eli Wallach), a Mexican bandit. Though dubbed "the Good," Eastwood's character is not much better than his opponents -- he is just smarter and shoots faster. The film's title reveals its ironic attitude toward the canonized heroes of the classical western. "The real West was the world of violence, fear, and brutal instincts," claimed Leone. "In pursuit of profit there is no such thing as good and evil, generosity or deviousness; everything depends on chance, and not the best wins but the luckiest." Immensely entertaining and beautifully shot in Techniscope by Tonino Delli Colli, the movie is a virtually definitive "spaghetti western," rivaled only by Leone's own Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). The main musical theme by Ennio Morricone hit #1 on the British pop charts. Originally released in Italy at 177 minutes, the movie was later cut for its international release. ~ Yuri German, Rovi

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Directed by: Sergio Leone

Release Date: December 23, 1966

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  • fb100002359227440
    April 12, 2012
    fb100002359227440
    One of the best films I ever saw!. Fresh.
  • fb1664868775
    March 4, 2012
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    The definitive Italian western.The most epic of all Leone's films. Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood all are brilliant but Leone's camera is the real star of this classic.
  • FilmFanatik
    September 5, 2011
    FilmFanatik
    Sergio Leone not only turned his classic "Dollars trilogy" around with a great final part, but he also managed to create one of the greatest films ever made. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has always been one of my favorite films, and for good reason. There are things about it th... read moreat would definitely rub the critically inclined, like myself, the wrong way. Thankfully, none of that seems to matter in this film. I feel transported everytime I see it. The dirt and the grit seep out of every pore of every frame of film. It's also superbly acted, especially from Eastwood who gives one of his greatest performances (rarely topped). There's also the wonderful Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef rounding out the film's namesake characters. This is just a perfect entry into the Spaghetti Western genre. The iconic score (by the eminent Ennio Morricone), the beautiful images and the great storyline make it one of the all time greats.
  • wildaly14
    July 5, 2011
    wildaly14
    Classic western film. Loved it! "If you're gonna shoot, don't talk, shoot."Well I obviously watched the director's cut (I didn't realize this until I heard a bit of the commentary... I actually thought the film had been THAT long) and though I think I should've watched ... read morethe "normal version" first, I absolutely loved this movie. Why? Well first off, there's Clint Eastwood (the Good) who played a character named Blondie, who by the way was not exactly blond in my opinion, but was absolutely badass and I don't even need to mention handsome. Then there were the showdowns. Phew! I think you can actually sweat while you watch those parts. And finally, the "When you have to shoot, don't talk, shoot" which is a very good lesson for all the bad guys of the world who always feel the need to reveal the way they got to the top and how now they're going to take over the world, blah, blah, blah and the hero, being, of course, smarter and wiser, kills him while he talks. An even better thing about this film is that everyone here is a bad guy and we see none of those repertories before a guy is going to shoot someone, thank you very much. Not only that but I also learned that there's always two kinds of people in this world, my friend...
  • sononothing
    July 2, 2011
    sononothing
    Everything Sergio Leone did before 1966 built up to The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. A Fistful Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More steadily increased the epic western that Leone envisioned until he released what is probably his greatest creation and the film that sealed Clint E... read moreastwood's star power.

    As gritty as its predecessors, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly is set during the Civil War as the title trio goes on the hunt for $200,000 dollars in stolen gold. The Good is Blondie, played by Eastwood as he reprises his Man With No Name character. The Bad is Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), a cold blooded killer who happens upon the gold story while working for another man. The Ugly is Tuco (Eli Wallach), a degenerate criminal hell bent on getting vengeance on Blondie, but is forced to change his tune when Blondie gains the key information to the hidden gold. The quest for gold begins in front of the back drop of the Civil War as battles impede the movement toward the buried coins and the gritty, bombed out towns serve as a refuge to the treasure hunters.

    This is the third and final film in the Dollars trilogy and shows how popular and profitable Leone's vision had become. Given a larger budget for TGTBATU, Leone builds a larger world than in any previous dollars film. As in the others the west is a dirty place where there are no cowboys in black and white, just everyone wearing a shade of gray. The Good really isn't very good, he's just a man in his element.



    Of course all of the Leone trademarks are present; the close ups and the grand vistas borrowed from John Ford. It's a drastic change from the almost crystal clean westerns of decades before. Is it realistic? Probably not, but life appears a lot closer to real human nature than other westerns. Survival of the fittest is the main theme in these films.



    When looking at the cast the three leads are perfect. Eastwood's character is obviously a very good rehash from the previous dollars films, but Eli Wallach's Tuco is a sight to be believed. He appears to be bungling, but is actually way ahead when you really delve deeper into his character. "If you're going to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." The real switch is Lee Van Cleef, who played the fatherly Mortimer in For A Few Dollars More. In TGTBATU he is one of cinemas first natural born killers. A professional at what he does in every sense of the word.

    The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly has a legacy that has followed it since its release almost two generations ago. The west got harsher. The line between good and bad became blurred, bringing on a decade of the anti-hero. This film still influences directors and writers throughout the world. It is a masterpiece of film making with a story that is epic. Not only one of the greatest westerns ever made, one of the greatest films ever made.
  • DreamExtractor
    June 25, 2011
    DreamExtractor
    The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is the conclusion to the Man With No Name Trilogy, and is in my opinion the greatest western ever made (next to the 2010 True Grit). The Good (Clint Eastwood), The Bad (Lee Van Cleef), and The Ugly (Eli Wallach) are three men, greedy and selfish m... read moreen in the west during the time of American Civil War. All three get caught in trying to find confederate gold, and will kill eachother for it. The plot is much more than it sounds, its a journey through the west as we see the true violence, terror, beauty, hate, and sadness that the world was really like in that time, espically in the west. Clint Eastwood is one of the most famous actors and directors in history, and we get to see him at his best in his golden days when he was a big rising star, and just having a star like him in this makes it feel even greater because we're not watching a old western film with some random actors, we're watching the king of westerns at his greatest. Eli Wallach is amazing as well, he plays one of the cheatiest and stupididest people there is, and he fits the role to perfection. Lee Van Cleef scared me as a kid, he played a ruthless bastard who was always one step ahead and he always played a great role with a straight face that made him one of the most remembered actors ever by being in this film. The music in this film is its trademark, when people remember this film they sing the famous and amazingly made score that people remember to this day, and the rest of this music is tremendous as well. The production of the film is great, they really tried hard to make this a spaghetti western. There never was a moment that we are not supposed to watch because every moment is important to get the full feel of the film, and this is why The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is the most famous western (and one of the most famous films) of all time.
  • fb732260458
    May 14, 2011
    fb732260458
    Gosh, where to start... This movie simply demands to be seen and revered. Sergio Leone's direction is at once playful and completely timeless, the comedy is ironic and pitch-black, and the performances are stellar. And the Ennio Morricone score... that man can do no wrong. A mode... read morern marvel.
  • TomBowler
    March 21, 2011
    TomBowler
    Great acting, great script and some amazing direction. Full review later.
  • danperry17
    December 12, 2010
    danperry17
    Simply stunning. The original three-part chase (eat your heart out, No Country For Old Men fans), Leone's final instalment in the Man With No Name trilogy is far and away the best one. This may be a perfect film. Take the already established operator Eastwood and singularly-focus... read moresed Van Cleef, then throw in an outstanding performance by Eli Wallach as Tuco, the man who - even more so than the above two, in the first two films - will do anything for a buck (or $200,000, in this case).

    The score is the best of Morricone's three, and could probably tell the story by itself. The cinematography is colourful and lively and at the same shows the desolation in which this story. And in the middle is an encounter between Tuco and his brother that, in about four minutes of film, is one of the most subtle and profound meditations on loneliness I've ever seen. In fact, it explains the whole trilogy, each of the main characters, and maybe even the cultural figure of the lone rider that's become so prevalent in our art. (Recall Eastwood, who said around the time he made Unforgiven that of late, all movies are Westerns.)

    Now, add in a little touch of politics and history - the Civil War is ongoing - and a few good gun battles, especially the film's climax, and you have an absolute masterpiece. Up there with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the best Western I've ever seen, and maybe the out-and-out best movie I've ever seen. A must, must, must. Beautiful piece of art that's often imitated but will never, ever be duplicated. Stunning.
  • CloudStrife84
    September 16, 2010
    CloudStrife84
    Sadly not the masterpiece I was hoping it to be, but still a beautifully directed and memorable Western (altough I am of the opinion that movies like 3:10 to Yuma, Tombstone, and Unforgiven rank somewhat above it). All the same, I can understand now why it ma... read morede Eastwood into such an icon; seeing as he did have a respectable aura of coolness here that few actors has ever come close to.

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Critic Reviews

August 11, 2008
TIME Magazine

All three arrive at the cache at the same time. Who gets it? Director Leone doesn't seem to care very much, and after 161 minutes of mayhem, audiences aren't likely to either. Full Review

Variety Staff
July 22, 2008
Variety Staff, Variety

The third in the Clint Eastwood series of Italo westerns, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is exactly that -- a curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadi... Full Review

Dave Kehr
March 28, 2007
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing. Full Review

Glenn Abel
June 8, 2004
Glenn Abel, Hollywood Reporter

Sergio Leone's epic looks good, almost great, restored to its original running time.

John Monaghan
September 11, 2003
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

Of all the great films of the 1960s, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of a fistful that can be truly appreciated only on the big screen.

Colin Covert
September 11, 2003
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Leone's blockbuster is balanced on the razor's edge between popular entertainment and art film. It took classic American themes and turned them inside out. Full Review

Stephen Hunter
August 22, 2003
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

This is a great movie, whatever strange estuary of the western river it occupies.

Michael Wilmington
August 7, 2003
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

An improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and sordid violence that keeps wrenching you from one extreme to the other. Full Review

Roger Ebert
August 5, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Art it is, summoned out of the imagination of Leone and painted on the wide screen so vividly that we forget what marginal productions these films were. Full Review

Ty Burr
August 1, 2003
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

The uncut new print reclaims the widescreen majesty of Tonino Delli Colli's cinematography, allowing you to see every iconic wart and furrow on every bad guy's face. Full Review

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    • The Good: [Reading a letter] See you soon, idiots. It's for you.
    • Tuco the Ugly: If you want to shoot, just shoot don't start talking.
    • The Good: The way back to town is only seventy miles. So if you save your breath, I feel a man like you can manage it. Adios...
    • The Good: Just like old times...1 2 3 4 Five for you...five for me...you know how much u worth now...
    • Tuco the Ugly: How much...
    • The Good: 3000 dollars...
    • Tuco the Ugly: If you want to shoot, shoot, don't talk...
    • The Good: [to Tuco] There are two kinds of people in the world those with guns and those that dig. You dig?
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