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Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)

APPROVED 161 min  -  Adventure | Western  -   29 December 1967 (USA)
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A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Director:

Sergio Leone

Writers:

Luciano Vincenzoni (story), Sergio Leone (story), and 5 more credits »
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Eli Wallach ...
Clint Eastwood ...
Lee Van Cleef ...
Aldo Giuffrè Aldo Giuffrè ...
Alcoholic Union Captain (as Aldo Giuffre')
Luigi Pistilli ...
Rada Rassimov Rada Rassimov ...
Enzo Petito Enzo Petito ...
Claudio Scarchilli Claudio Scarchilli ...
Mexican Peon
John Bartha John Bartha ...
Sheriff (as John Bartho)
Livio Lorenzon Livio Lorenzon ...
Antonio Casale Antonio Casale ...
Sandro Scarchilli Sandro Scarchilli ...
Mexican Peon
Benito Stefanelli Benito Stefanelli ...
Member of Angel Eyes' Gang
Angelo Novi Angelo Novi ...
Monk
Antonio Casas Antonio Casas ...
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Storyline

Blondie (The Good) is a professional gunslinger who is out trying to earn a few dollars. Angel Eyes (The Bad) is a hit man who always commits to a task and sees it through, as long as he is paid to do so. And Tuco (The Ugly) is a wanted outlaw trying to take care of his own hide. Tuco and Blondie share a partnership together making money off Tuco's bounty, but when Blondie unties the partnership, Tuco tries to hunt down Blondie. When Blondie and Tuco comes across a horse carriage loaded with dead bodies, they soon learn from the only survivor (Bill Carson) that he and a few other men have buried a stash of gold in a cemetery. Unfortunately Carson dies and Tuco only finds out the name of the cemetery, while Blondie finds out the name on the grave. Now the two must keep each other alive in order to find the gold. Angel Eyes (who had been looking for Bill Carson) discovers that Tuco and Blondie meet with Carson and knows they know the location of the gold... Written by Jeremy Thomson  

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Plot Keywords:

Gold | Cemetery | Battle | Treasure | American Civil War  | See more »

Taglines:

A classic western! A classic music theme! See more »

Genres:

Adventure | Western

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Details

Country:

Italy | Spain | West Germany

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly See more »

Filming Locations:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$1,200,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$10,584 (Finland) (7 August 2003) (1 Screen)

Gross:

$19,000,000 (USA)
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

 | France: (dubbed version)  | Spain:  | (2003 extended English version)  | Finland: (1984) (cut version)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
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Did You Know?

Trivia

Charles Bronson was offered both the roles of Tuco and Angel Eyes (the latter because Sergio Leone feared that audiences would not take kindly to Lee Van Cleef going from the fatherly, likable Col. Mortimer to a sneering villain. He declined both. See more »

Goofs

Anachronisms: In the prison camp scene where the musicians are playing while Tuco is being beaten by Angel Eyes, the fiddle has fine tuning adjusters on the tail-piece. These fine tune adjusters were designed for metal strings used many decades later. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Stevens: You're... from Baker... Tell Baker that I told him all that I know already. Tell him I want to live in peace, understand? That it's no use to go on tormenting me! I know nothing at all about that case of coins. Now that gold has disappeared, but if he'd listened, we could have avoided this altogether. I went to the Army court; there were no witnesses. They couldn't uncover any more. I can't tell Baker what happened to the money; go back and tell him that!
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Connections

Referenced in Het schnitzelparadijs (2005) See more »

Soundtracks

The Lyrics of the Song "The Soldiers Story"
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