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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Runtime: 2 hrs 59 mins
Synopsis: Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard where a Confederate treasure is buried, while Blondie learns the identity... Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard where a Confederate treasure is buried, while Blondie learns the identity of the exact grave. Joined by mercenary drifter Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), they cross the desert, each of the desperadoes knowing half the secret and each focusing his squinty eyes on the $200,000 bounty. In a classic that puts style above substance, Italian director Sergio Leone uses vivid Cinemascope imagery to depict a bleak and bloody American West in this final installment of his collaboration with Clint Eastwood in the Man with No Name Trilogy. A prototype for the so-called Spaghetti Western genre, the film solidified Eastwood's position as a major international star with his stoic, brooding presence. Cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli's stunning visuals are a match for the vivacious Ennio Morricone score, one of the most recognizable in all of cinema. Although the film was not released in the United States until 1967, it was produced and released internationally in 1966. [More]
Genre: Westerns
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega, Aldo Giuffre
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 11, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
- Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
- (unspecified) - English
Additional Release Material:
- Additional Footage - Bonus Footage (14 min.)
- Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailer
Reviews
Leone also endows the film with a clever visual style. His sense of scale is especially inspired.
Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
You don't really need me to review THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY for you, do you?
Town streets stretch wider than eight-lane freeways, gargoyle-faced henchmen lurk behind every tumbleweed, and Ennio Morricone's majestic electric coyote score rules over all.
...while the film is seriously overlong, there are enough elements here to hold the interest of even the most impatient viewer.
Sergio Leone's baroque western might be his greatest...Watch how Clint Eastwood amazingly acts with just his teeth and those squinty eyes.
Clearly the work of a master filmmaker whose style has never grown stale.
There are many features that contribute to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’s belated renown, and none as idiosyncratic as Ennio Morricone’s score.
Sergio Leone's epic looks good, almost great, restored to its original running time.
A beautiful film, directed with supreme confidence and passion — and lots of action.
One of the most compelling validations of the western genre’s most elemental touchstones.
The point is not what happens in the movie but how it happens, a curious blend of partly humorous, partly dramatic, partly elegiac legend.
Of all the great films of the 1960s, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of a fistful that can be truly appreciated only on the big screen.
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