The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) movie poster

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
"For three men the Civil War wasn't hell. It was practice."
ThumbScore
👍 91%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 94%
Western

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Runtime
2h 41m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America, Italy, Spain
Language
Italian
TMDB Rating
8.5/10 (9,483 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
90

Cast

Clint Eastwood as Blondie · 75% avg
Eli Wallach as Tuco Ramirez · 77% avg
Lee Van Cleef as Sentenza / Angel Eyes · 80% avg
Aldo Giuffrè as Alcoholic Union Captain
Luigi Pistilli as Father Pablo Ramirez · 84% avg
Rada Rassimov as Maria
Enzo Petito as Storekeeper
Claudio Scarchilli as Tuco Henchman

Is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly good?

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 94%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#2 / 115 · Western
Rank in its year
#2 / 16 · 1966
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 6 · Sergio Leone

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Leone, the concluding and most celebrated chapter of the Dollars Trilogy. Clint Eastwood stars as "Blondie" (the Good), a laconic bounty hunter; Lee Van Cleef as "Angel Eyes" (the Bad), a ruthless mercenary; and Eli Wallach as Tuco (the Ugly), a fast-talking, opportunistic bandit. The three men pursue a fortune in Confederate gold buried in a cemetery during the American Civil War, forming and breaking alliances as they cross a war-ravaged landscape.

Sergio Leone created what many consider the definitive Western and one of the greatest films in cinema history. Ennio Morricone's score — featuring the iconic "wah-wah-wah" theme performed with electric guitar, ocarina, and human voices — became the most recognizable Western music ever composed and one of the most frequently referenced pieces of film music in any genre. The climactic three-way Mexican standoff in the cemetery, stretched to excruciating tension through extreme close-ups of eyes and hands over nearly five minutes, established the template for standoff scenes that has been imitated in thousands of subsequent films.

The film runs nearly three hours, and Leone used the epic runtime to create a sweeping vision of the Civil War as senseless carnage perpetrated by men too absorbed in their own greed and survival to care about the larger conflict.

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