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Release Date:
29 December 1967 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Man with No Name Returns !
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Plot:
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.
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The world is not black and white
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| Clint Eastwood | .... | special thanks (2003 extended English-language version) |
| Alberto Grimaldi | .... | special thanks (2003 extended English-language version) |
| Eli Wallach | .... | special thanks (2003 extended English-language version) |
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Also Known As:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (UK) (USA)
El bo, el lleig i el dolent (Spain: Catalan title)
El bueno, el feo y el malo (Spain)
I due magnifici straccioni (Italy) (working title)
The Good, the Ugly, the Bad (USA) (literal English title)
The Magnificent Rogues (UK)
Zwei glorreiche Halunken (West Germany)
Le bon, la brute et le truand (Belgium: French title) (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]El bueno, el malo y el feo (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]A jó, a rossz és a csúf (Hungary) [hu]Bunul, raul si urâtul (Romania) [ro]De goede, de harde, de vagebond (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]Den gode, den onde och den fule (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]Den gode, den onde og den grusomme (Norway) [no]Den gode, den onde og den grusomme (Denmark) [da]Den gode, den onde, den fule (Sweden) [sv]Den gode, den vonde og den hjartelause (Norway) (TV title) [no]Dobar, los, zao (Yugoslavia: Serbian title) [sr]Dobry, zly i brzydki (Poland) [pl]Goda, onda och fula (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]Hyvät pahat rumat (Finland) [fi]Hyvät, pahat ja rumat (Finland) [fi]Iyi, kötü ve çirkin (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]O Bom, O Mal e O Feio (Brazil) [pt]O Bom, o Mau e o Vilão (Portugal) [pt]O kalos, o kakos kai o ashimos (Greece) [el]Três Homens em Conflito (Brazil) [pt]Zwei glorreiche Halunken (Austria) [de]
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Runtime:
161 min | France:186 min (dubbed version) | Spain:182 min | UK:180 min (re-release) | 179 min (2005 DVD Special Edition) | Finland:142 min (1984) (cut version)
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
Ennio Morricone's iconic theme music was designed in places to mimic the sound of crying hyena.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the runaway Confederate carriage first appears in the desert you can see someone steering it. Then, as Tuco seizes the horse-team to stop the carriage, the reins are obviously being held by the out-of-frame driver. In the next shot, viewed from the driver's bench, the reins visibly tighten to halt the horses and then drop.
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Quotes:
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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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Soundtrack:
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
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Wasn't Dynamite invented in 1867?
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Ok- first, as mentioned in another review, the geographic/historical errors in this film are GLARING. You've got men carrying revolvers that look like old style cap-and-ball pistols, but they're loading them with metallic cartridges- historically about five years early. Eastwood carries a rifle that hasn't been invented yet, Tuco assembles a "superpistol" out of a Colt, a Remington, and a Smith and Wesson- impossible. And there was nothing of merit taking place between the North and South during the Civil War in the Southwest. Now, that aside, I must say that this is the Greatest western ever. I first saw this film when I was about ten. I'd never sat through an entire Western befor, even though my Dad watched them constantly. Since then, I've been through film school, watched hundreds of Westerns, learned to appreciate them- but NOTHING matches up to this. The Searchers, Stagecoach, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Gunfighter, High Noon, Shane- all great films, but saddled with the standard American Western morality- the good guy never takes liberties with the eastern schoolmarm, the bad guy wears a black hat, etc. Coming from Italy, TG,TB &TU isn't bound by these conventions. Blondie's the "good guy"- but he's also a bounty hunter. He makes a living in a highly immoral way, but is obviously the "good"- not because we're told, but from small acts- giving the dying soldier a cigar, making sure the Captain knows to hold on till he hears the bridge blow, the genuine regret he feel for having to let Shorty die. And while Angel Eyes may be the Bad, we at least know he has prinicpals- when he's hired for a job, he always sees the job through. And Tuco may be more immoral than the other two, but he's so savvy and his role so humorous that one can't bring oneself to look upon him disfavorably. In other words, historical inaccuracies aside, TG, TB, & TU maybe one of the most accurate portrayals of the West ever put on film- there are no clear-cut lines of conduct, no black and white, or even grey, but just a swirled palette of various facets of the human condition.