The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, literally "The good, the ugly, the bad") is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". Its screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Leone (with additional screenplay material and dialogue provided by an uncredited Sergio Donati), 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 film's score, including its main theme. It was an Italian-led production with co-producers in Spain, West Germany, and the United States. Most of the filming took place in Spain. The film is known for Leone's use of long shots and close-up cinematography, as well as his distinctive use of violence, tension, and highly stylised gunfights. The plot revolves around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in a buried cache of Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of the American Civil War (specifically the Battle of Glorieta Pass of the New Mexico Campaign in 1862) while participating in many battles, confrontations, and duels along the way. The film was the third collaboration between Leone and Clint Eastwood, and the second with Lee Van Cleef. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was marketed as the third and final installment in the Dollars Trilogy, following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. The film was a financial success, grossing over $38 million at the worldwide box office, and is credited with having catapulted Eastwood into stardom. Due to general disapproval of the spaghetti Western genre at the time, critical reception of the film following its release was mixed, but it gained critical acclaim in later years, becoming known as the "definitive spaghetti Western".
Wanted in 15 counties of this state... The condemned, standing before us... Sitting before us... Tuco benedicto pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez... Has been found guilty by the third district circuit court... Of the following crimes: Murder, assaulting a justice of the peace... Raping a virgin of the white race... And statutory rape of a minor of the black race... Of derailing a train in order to Rob the passengers...
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What'd you find out, shorty? If you ask me, it seems like a book! An armed unit, escorting a cash box of gold coins, meets a yankee ambush... And only three of them are saved. Stevens, baker, and Jackson. The thing that wasn't saved, though, was the coins. But then the army decides, of course, it ought to hold a hearing... And Jackson's acquitted. He disappears, and becomes bill Carson. I know his name. But you don't know just who you're lookin' for, and I do! And when he's found, I'd be scared to be put in his shoes!
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