The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Director: Sergio Leone
Genre: Spaghetti Western, Western, War film, Action, Action/Adventure, World cinema, Revisionist Western, Epic Western
Year: 1966
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Language: Italian Language, English Language
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Al Mulock, Mario Brega, Rada Rassimov, Luigi Pistilli, Antonio Casale, John Bartha, Aldo Giuffrè, Antonio Casas
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping widescreen cinematography and Ennio Morricone composed the famous film score, including its main theme. It is the third film in the Dollars Trilogy following A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). The plot revolves around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in buried Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of gunfights, hangings, American Civil War battles and prison camps.
In a desolate ghost town during the American Civil War, bandit Tuco Ramirez ("The Ugly," Eli Wallach) narrowly shoots his way past three bounty hunters to freedom, killing two but only badly wounding the third. Miles away, Angel Eyes ("The Bad," Lee Van Cleef) interrogates a former soldier called Stevens (Antonio Casas) about a missing man named Jackson who has
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