| | Good, The Bad And The Ugly DVD (8 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Recommended DVDs, Classic Movies, Westerns Videos, Essential Cinema, Scams And Cons, Civil War, Spaghetti Western | | Starring | Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega, Luigi Pistilli, Aldo Giuffre, Claudio Scarchilli, Chelo Alonso, Enzo Petito, Rada Rassimov | | Director | Sergio Leone | | Art Director | Carlo Simi | | Composer | Ennio Morricone | | Director of Photography | Tonino Delli Colli | | Editor | Nino Baragli, Eugenio Alabiso | | Music Director | Bruno Nicolai | | Producer | Alberto Grimaldi | | Story | Luciano Vincenzoni | | Writer | Sergio Leone |
Closed Captioned; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; Behind The Scenes 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. Theatrical Release: December 1967 (USA)
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY is actually a prequel to the other two Man with No Name films--A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE. During the last part of the movie, Clint Eastwood's character acquires the poncho he wears in the other films. During the shooting of all three productions, the poncho was never cleaned or replaced.
Eastwood made $250,000 working on THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, a huge increase over the $50,000 salary for FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE and the $15,000 paycheck for A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. By the time THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY was released in the United States, he was a full-blown star. Good, The Bad And The Ugly Reviews: "...[A] wry portrait of monetary greed in which Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef one-up each other against a Civil War backdrop..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...Sergio Leone's sublime spaghetti Western remains the balls-out joyride it was 34 years ago..."
-- Entertainment Weekly Staff, Entertainment Weekly "Leone took the western to a mythic pinnacle few could reach -- and few tried. But going back was no longer an option."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere "[E]very element of Sergio Leone's 1967 classic is riveting..."
-- Peter Relic, Rolling Stone "The third chapter in Sergio Leone's trilogy of Spanish-shot spaghetti westerns is the most ambitious..."
-- Uncut Staff, Uncut "Leone's movies were raw, crazy and brutal, yet, thanks to his keen eye, beautiful....This film is Leone's breeziest."-- Dan Jolin, Empire Good, The Bad And The Ugly Video Good, The Bad And The Ugly Movie Review Average Rating: (4.9 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews A Classic
In my opinion, one of the best westerns made. It does get a little hokey when they get 10 shots from their six-shooters, and never miss. But it shows what greed will do to a man. Plus Wallach's performance of Tuco is out standing.
Submitted by Jetfxr3009 (Las Vegas, NV, USA) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Un super clásico.
Definitivamente un clásico que no debe faltar en tu colección. Lo mejor del cine en western.
Submitted by a reviewer (Cd. del Carmen, Camp. México)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No It's Great
I'd give it a 100 out of 5 but that's just not possible.
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- the utter dead-end desolation of the "fool's gold" statement made real by the visuals and music while Tuco searches for the grave of Bill Carson in a graveyard-of-unheard-of proportions in the "middle of nowhere" - "somewhere" in the West.
THEY know it's there (the gold). That's all the characters care about. Screw the Civil War and thousands of lives lost for a "cause". The bottom, sorry/celebrated statement is GREED.
Amazing stuff this.
We, as observers, can make our own judgements while the muse operatically intones her judgment/observation during "The Ecstasy of Gold", but find ourselves relating more to the characters' quest FOR THE MONEY and dismiss her reminder of fate to the wind (with only the haunting reminder of all the visuals of gravestones and crucifixes offered up by the filmmaker to chew on as cud later).
The movie (the music, foremost) explores expertly the periphery of morality.
To see it is one thing.
To believe it another.
And BOTH are expertly offered up by Leone and Morricione at the same time during this graveyard sequence.
Cinema mythos truly at its best. You just can't beat this. This movie (and particularly the graveyard sequence) is elevated.
Submitted by chadleeper (Flagstaff, AZ)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  Spaghetti Western
Who put the music to this picture? It was horrible. The movie was good. Italian actors, etc. who were Mexican?
Clint was great, now we know why he has so many wrinkles on his face, being in the sun like that! What a S.O.B. Tuco is. The ugly guy gets away????
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