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Considered by many connoisseurs 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 the backdrop of the American civil war, the main protagonist is, “The Man with No 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 just when he is on the verge of being hanged.
During the course of their jaunts across the country, they come across a batch of dying prisoners and one of them blurts out about a $ 200,000 bounty hidden under a grave. While Clint knows which grave the money is buried under, Tuco knows the cemetery. Unknowingly, they bump into a ruthless army captain Sentenza (The Bad), who knows that these two are in search of the treasure. The battle lines are clearly drawn - who will survive this fight for greed and self-preservation?
Though there is not much here by way of storyline, Sergio Leone does a great job of narrating a tale field with many subtleties. In more ways than one, this was a path-breaking movie that gave a totally new definition to a Western movie. The technical brilliance (especially the screenplay and camerawork) is amply evident in every scenes throughout the movie. There are long periods of silence in the movie, punctuated briefly by sudden bursts of haunting melodies (a brilliant musical score by Ennio Morricone). One thing that I found to be different in this movie is that the viewer does not come across any woman character in the whole, except in a very brief sequence lasting not more than 30 seconds.
Clintie does not get too much of a chance to prove his acting prowess keeping in tune with the requirement that his role demands. The dialogues are crisp and effective. Eli Wallach is a virtual scene-stealer...check out this scene for instance. After not having bather for many months, he is finally confronted with the sight of a big bathtub with clear water in it. As he settles in and freaks out on his annual ritual, an enemy from the past catches him unawares at gunpoint and begins listing out all the atrocities committed by Wallach on his family...Wallach takes out his gun out of nowhere, shoots this man and looking at the dead body, coolly says “When you have to shoot, shoot! Dont talk!!”.
The movie is supported superbly by the background music score. Not many will forget that haunting whistle-like melody which plays in the background at crucial points in the movie...the tune starts off quite sedately but ends in a barrage of drums and choruses...I bought the audio CD just for that one tune but got severely addicted to it on hearing the other tracks too.
Some movies are legendary and in an arena of Westerns, this work of Sergio Leone is unmatched in its strikingly visual approach, namely, the extensive use of dramatic widescreen shots interleaved with moments of extreme close-ups. For puritans of spaghetti westerns and die-hard fans of Clintie, this is a not to be missed movie. About the only complaint with this movie is its length which stretches on for more than two and a half hours...but I guess we cant have all that we want to all the time.
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Production Year: 1965 - Westerns - Director: Sergio Leone - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Klaus Kinski, Mario Brega, Gian Maria Volonte, Mara Krup, Luigi Pistilli
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