DVD 161 min. IMDB 8.8

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Western

Clint Eastwood	The Good
Eli Wallach	Tuco, the Ugly
Lee Van Cleef	The Bad
Aldo Giuffrè	Alcoholic Union captain (as Aldo Giuffre)
Luigi Pistilli	Father Pablo Ramirez
Rada Rassimov	Maria
Enzo Petito	Storekeeper
Claudio Scarchilli	Bounty Hunter in Ghost Town
John Bartha	Sheriff (as John Bartho)
Livio Lorenzon	Baker

Regisseur	Sergio Leone
Producent	Alberto Grimaldi
Schrijver	Luciano Vincenzoni; Sergio Leone

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. — Yuri German