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Director
Sergio Leone
Cast
Clint Eastwood,
Eli Wallach,
Lee Van Cleef,
Aldo Giuffrè,
Luigi Pistilli,
Rada Rassimov
Genre
Western
As the Civil War rages on, three disparate men—a silent, cigar chomping gunslinger with no name, a renegade Mexican bandit, and an evil, mustache-twirling hitman—venture out across the American Southwest in search of 200,000 dollars in Confederate gold hidden in an unmarked grave. Masterfully directed and scored by Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone.
The Man With No Name trilogy isn't a trilogy that is my cup of tea, but The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly does stand out thanks to that iconic score from Ennio Morricone and Eli Wallach's chaotically delightful performance as "the ugly", also known as Tuco. If only Gian Maria Volonté was in all three Man With No Name movies instead of Clint Eastwood.
Boston Globe by Ty Burr
Gorgeously stoic art film.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
There are two kinds of people, my friend. Those who love Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and those who resist the machismo and gallows humor of what is arguably the definitive spaghetti western.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
An improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and sordid violence that keeps wrenching you from one extreme to the other.
Chicago Reader by Dave Kehr
Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
TV Guide Magazine
A massive, many-faceted film that continues to hold up, viewing after viewing.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
All told, and in giant widescreen, it's only blood-red adolescent fun, but it blooms like Douglas Sirk with a Gatling gun compared to the teenage demographic's current fare. Matrix, schmatrix: This is the season's supreme party movie.
Variety
A curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadistic.
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