The Good Bad And The Ugly (DVD)

This is the third and the best of the Sergio Leone's 'Dollar' trilogy, and possibly the best of the 'spaghetti western' genre. The previous films, 'A Fistful of Dollars' (1964) and 'For A Few Dollars More' (1965) were groundbreaking as part of the spaghetti western genre that reacted against the traditional Hollywood representation of the west and led to a regeneration in the western until the late 70's. Originally these movies were low-budget westerns ...
...a cheap tawdry imitation of the classic western film genre. The history and development of Spaghetti westerns is a fascinating subject and if you are interested in a slightly more in depth study of it do include more information in my previous reviews on 'A Fistful of Dollars' and 'For A Few Dollars More' . By the time ‘The Good the Bad and the Ugly’ was made Leone had achieved worldwide success and he could afford to increase his budget for filmmaking. ...

Mauri 26.07.2000 (01.12.2003) · Read full review
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...had a straightforward narrative structure, the straight as arrow hero, usually the town sheriff, the bad guy, an outlaw, and a lovely heroine. Of course Injuns were always shown as nasty savages, Mexicans were bumbling idiots and Black guys who were they?. John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, Henry Fonda , Gary Cooper were some of the biggest stars of the Westerns. Until in 1966 an Italian director called Segio Leone turned the Western on it's head, to create ...
..."Spaghetti Westerns". To be honest The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was not Sergio Leone's first work, it was in fact the last of a trilogy starting with a Western version of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, followed by For a Few Dollars More. But The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly would remain the most defining movie in Leone's career. The movie is about The Good( Clint Eastwood) , who actually has no name as such. He is a bounty hunter and ...

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...Leone, who created this as the third in the trilogy of ‘spaghetti westerns’ (because of the largely Italian cast, crew and locations), after the inferior ‘Fistful of dollars’ and ‘For a few dollars more’. I see this as Leone’s greatest film, and certainly one of the greatest westerns ever made. The western genre was, by 1966, becoming tired and much less popular than in its 1950s heyday. In this previous ...
...and who is bad. By the late 1960s, westerns were losing their stringent messages and much more complex ideas were filtering in to them. The irony in the title of ‘The good, the bad, and the ugly’ is that although these roles are defined at the beginning, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach, respectively, the ambiguity of the titles makes the journey depicted within much more intriguing. But this is not a film mainly about ...

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...to be probably one of the finest movies ever made in its genre, here is a rare combination of a good casting which delivers great performances, excellent technical glitz and a strange deficiency of glamour. Made as the final component of the now-famous trilogy by Sergio Leone (“A fistful of Dollars” and “For a Few Dollars More” were the other two), this movie is certainly the best of them all in terms of overall cinematic excellence. Set against ...
...Name” (“The Good”, played by the man born to act that role, Clint Eastwood) with his rugged looks and street-smart manners. He is paired with a buffoon of a companion, Tuco – The Ugly (Eli Wallach in a delightful role) who, together are on the lookout for some easy money. They even resort to making a mockery of the law making authority of those days, Tuco is handed over to the sheriff by Clintie for which he gets a reward and he later helps Tuco ...

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...up his cowboy gear with the Colt 45 and travelled to Europe to take part in yet another western but this time with the presence of the gifted director Sergio Leone. The final result was the "Dollars Trilogy" of which 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' is the final and most probably the finest episode. This was the movie that put Clint on the map and notorious as the fastest draw in the West. There have been many, if not too many, spagetti westerns ...
...such quality as 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly', it is all worth it. The story is simple. It's all about money. The three characters are set on making as much money as they can in the easiest possible way, either fake claiming rewards or being a bounty hunter. Tuco and Blondie are teamed up right from the start collecting the ever increasing rewards for Tuco's arrest and hanging. Blondie always cuts the noose before Tuco pays the ultimate price ...

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...minutes (approx) About the Film The Good, the Bad and The Ugly, written by Age-Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Leone is the third and last western in Clint Eastwood's spaghetti trilogy. Director Sergio Leone substitutes for the upright puritan Protestant Ethos, so familiar in Hollywood westerns, with a seedy cynical standpoint towards death and morality, as a team of brutal bandits battle to unearth a fortune buried beneath an unmarked ...
...by the Ugly "Eli Wallach" and the Bad "Lee Van Cleef". This film is a complex plot of bloodshed and betrayel as it winds its way through the American Civil War to end in the climatic Dance of Death. This film also boasts a fine Enio Morricone score as a main theme that reached No. 1 in the world's pop charts. The basic story is set in Western Times with Clint Eastwood playing the Good, Eli Wallach The Ugly and Lee van Cleef The Bad. The three main ...

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The title of this film alone stands out amongst the rest of the budget spagetti westerns, how many rip offs of the name of this film have been used? Thousands. And what a classic this is, combined with some appaling acting, budget camera shots and poor quality sound this in my opion is one of the best films ever made. The story line is a gem all leading to a brilliant and classic ending scene, the three main characters all play fantastic roles and ...
...stuff, the main characters are such good shots they never miss, every one else is horribly ugly and coudn't shoot straight if they tried to; but there something else here, a great plot combined with one of the best soundtracks ever, humor and loads of action, plus suspense of such i was almost quivering is what make this film great. The plot revolves around the three characters, the good- Eastwood as 'Blondie', the bad- Lee Van Cleef as 'Angle eyes' ...

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...Leone's definitive spagetti western and the grand finale to the "Dollars" Trilogy. This is a stunning view of the harsh life of cowboys during the American Civil War. This is a simple story of the efforts of three gunslingers to find a fortune in gold hidden in the wasteland. The Good Though the story is simple Leone creates a incredibly complex narrative structure where the paths of these three vagrants intertwine and are wrapped up with the ongoing ...
...shows moral standards and even the cold Clint Eastwood manages to show humanity. The Bad It is difficult to find bad things about this film. One possible problem is that the budget for this film whislt being dramatically higher than Leone's other dollars films is still too small to really do this film it's full credit. The Ugly Torture scenes, mindless violence and bloody battles are rife in this film enjoyed by many but may be a little too much ...

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...up as a kid in the 70's and 80's, John Wayne was a very distant memory, but Clint was a hero most of us adored. For us the definition of cool meant Clint Eastwood . And there were a series of movies which immortalized Clint's style, Where Eagles Dare , Dirty Harry and of course The Good, The Bad and The Ugly . The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, was the third in the series of what many call as Dollars Trilogy or what many American critics would derisively ...
...were shot in Spain . The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was preceded by For a Few Dollars More and A Fistful of Dollars . The Good is "The Man with No Name" played by Clint Eastwood . He is a free lance bounty hunter who forms a sort of weird partnership with The Ugly a.k.a "Tuco" played by Eli Wallach . Tuco is the most despicable criminal you have ever seen and wanted by every Sheriff and he calls Eastwood as "Blondie". Blondie turns in Tuco to the ...

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...Sergio Leone’s swan song in the spaghetti western genre. It brings together Clint Eastwood, (once again as the man with no name, or Blondie as Tuco calls him) Lee Van Cleef, (Sentenza, Angel eyes) and Eli Wallach. (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez) It starts with an unlikely partnership between Eastwood and Wallach, the later being a wanted outlaw, who Eastwood brings in for the reward money, then when Tuco is hanged, Blondie shoots ...
...Eventually the Blondie gets bored with the arrangement and ends up dumping Tuco in the desert. He vows revenge and makes it out of the desert, then tracks Eastwood down and returns the favour. In the desert Eastwood learns a secret about a missing payroll, that’s worth thousands from a dying man, so Tuco has to make sure Blondie stays alive. Anyway things happen and the two of them end up in a union prison camp, which is run by the mean and ...

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In the mid-1960s, Clint Eastwood made three 'spaghetti' westerns in Europe under the direction of Sergio Leone. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) was the third, the last, and the best of them. The first two films, Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965) had established Eastwood's murderous, loner 'Man with No Name' character. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) is apparently a prequel, with the story taking place towards ...
...greater than that for the first two films combined. Eastwood's salary was a quarter million dollars, a high figure for that era. He was previously known for his role in the television western "Rawhide", but it was Leone's films that made him a movie star. Director Leone was famous for his lengthy, slowly-paced dramas. Perhaps only Hitchcock could milk more tension from a scene than Leone, and by using a much different style. Hitchcock used much ...

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...Not many ! This was the first big budget western , and perhaps the reason it has stood the test of time is that it was never a slave to the fashion and style of the era it was born of. Watching the film is complete immersion in the characters and the story. And Clint Eastwood shows why he was a true god of the silver screen. Never has a man said so much by saying so little. Some kids wanted to be John Wayne , but all the cool ones wanted to ...

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The Good the bad and the ugly is one of the best all time classic mvoies that I have ever watched in my whole entire life. It is soo cool, the style of clint eastwood the good and then the bad's killing style and comedy of the ugly is just amazing. The movie potrays the life of all these three amazing characters and then how they all end up meeting and their lifes intersect. The movie has amazing drama and amazing action, gun fights and all old western ...
...watch movie before you die. The story is amazing as well, a movie which everyone in your family can watch. The only thing is that the movie is a bit lenghty but it doesnt make a difference as you'll be enjoying it all the while. And then there is the best classci style background music which you will be humming even after the movie ends. ...

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This is probably one the finest westerns ever made. From beginning to the end it is simply brilliant. The story of the man with no name continues in the third instalment of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns. Clint Eastwood is at his best Lee Van Cleef is always impressive but Eli Walach’s portrayal of Tuco was the best. What I like most about the film is that it is 2 and half hours long and does not have a single wasted scene. It stays intense throughout ...

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One of the greatest westerns ever right up there with the searches a must have for any western or clint eastwood fan. Sergio leone yet again proves he is a master with this the final instalment of the legendary dollar western triolgy. If this film had been an american release insteat of a spaghetti western it would have got best film and director oscars a true classic ...

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