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Cast & Crew
Cast
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Clint Eastwood
The Good
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Eli Wallach
Tuco, the Ugly
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Lee Van Cleef
The Bad
- Aldo Giuffré
- Rada Rassimov
- Mario Brega
- Luigi Pistilli
- Chelo Alonso
- Silvana Bacci
- Antonio Casas
Directors
- Sergio Leone
Producers
- Alberto Grimaldi
Writers
- Sergio Leone
- Luciano Vincenzoni
- Agenore Incrocci
- Furio Scarpelli
- Mickey Knox
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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 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.
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Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]
The new length gives a clearer view of the civil war context: a nightmare of panic as the south flees before the Union's advance.
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Kevin Maher, Times [UK]
Re-released movies are forever claiming to be iconic, but few can hold the title as easily as Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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Kim Newman, Empire Magazine
Amid the endless homages and the sheer adoration meted out to Sergio Leone's ambitious, pricier finale to his Spaghetti Western trilogy, it's easy to forget just how damn good the film is.
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