![]() ![]() Blondie decides to destroy the bridge to disperse the armies and clear their path. En route to the cemetery with the gold, the duo find themselves in a skirmish between the Union and the Confederacy over a strategic bridge. Tuco escapes hanging by killing a henchman working for Angel Eyes, then goes to an evacuated town where Blondie, Angel Eyes and his gang have arrived.īlondie finds Tuco and together they kill the gang, but Angel Eyes escapes. Knowing Blondie would not reveal the name on the grave, Angel Eyes recruits him into his search. Under torture, he reveals the name of the cemetery and is sent away to be hanged. Having posed as Carson, Tuco is taken away for questioning. The two are taken to a prison camp that Angel Eyes has infiltrated as a Union sergeant in his search for Bill Carson. On the way, Tuco yells pro-Confederate statements to an approaching group of soldiers who turn out to be a Union patrol. Their meeting does not go well and Tuco angrily leaves with Blondie. ![]() There, Tuco reunites with his brother, Pablo, who left his family to become a priest when Tuco was a child. Posing as a Confederate soldier, Tuco takes Blondie to a nearby mission to recover. The two reluctantly set aside their grudge and work together, since Tuco only knows the name of the cemetery while Blondie knows which grave to dig. However, before dying, he revealed the name on the grave to Blondie. When Tuco returns with water, Carson has died. A runaway ambulance arrives with several dead Confederate soldiers and a near-death Bill Carson, who asks Tuco for help, offering $200,000 in gold, buried in a grave in Sad Hill Cemetery. They repeat the process in other towns until Blondie grows weary of Tuco's complaints and strands him in the desert.īent on revenge, and after one failed attempt with his gang, Tuco catches up with Blondie and force-marches him across the desert until he collapses from dehydration. As Tuco is about to be hanged, Blondie severs the noose by shooting it and sets him free. Blondie delivers Tuco to a sheriff and collects his $2,000 bounty. Tuco is rescued from more bounty hunters by an unnamed drifter, whom he nicknames "Blondie". Angel Eyes kills him and, intrigued about the gold, kills his own employer. Stevens gives the name "Bill Carson", offers Angel Eyes a bribe and then draws his pistol. In 1862, in the American Southwest during the Civil War, three bounty hunters ambush Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez, who shoots them all and escapes.Įlsewhere, mercenary "Angel Eyes" interrogates former Confederate soldier Stevens for the alias of Jackson, a soldier who stole a cache of Confederate gold. 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". The film was a financial success, grossing over $38 million at the worldwide box office, and is credited with having catapulted Eastwood into stardom. 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 the third collaboration between Leone and Clint Eastwood, and the second with Lee Van Cleef. 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 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. It was an Italian-led production with co-producers in Spain, West Germany, and the United States. 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. 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. 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". ![]()
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