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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Cast

Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè View All


Crew

Sergio Leone (Screenplay), Sergio Leone (Director), Sergio Leone (Story), Sergio Donati (Writer) View All

Release: Dec. 23rd, 1966
Runtime: 2 hours, 41 minutes
While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
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0 Danish Orchestra playing theme from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
I found their ability to pull this off fascinating. This orchestra seems to have other videos of other westerns as well. Note the trumpets (my particular instrument). I had thought they they wer...

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Iroquois
While Eastwood and Van Cleef play some rather flat characters (albeit with their own little moments that hint at greater depths, such as Eastwood idly playing with a kitten at one point), Wallach is the grimy, rat-faced heart of the film; without him, things just don't work.
pahaK
On a related note I think some small editing would have benefited the film (by cutting little from Tuco and Blondie messing with each other would have made the film more compact and increased van Cleef's screen time in proportion to others).
Jack1
Overall, this is a fantastic film, one of the best ever, almost certainly the best western ever, and a film that covers the gamut of emotion and feeling, from sadness and pain to wit, and from that to violence and evil.
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