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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Aug 16, 2024 · Clint Eastwood's role in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly solidified his status as a Western genre icon. Lee Van Cleef's portrayal of the ruthless Angel Eyes added depth to the Spaghetti Western trilogy. Eli Wallach's comedic relief as Tuco balanced out the serious tone of the iconic film.
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". [9]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Directed by Sergio Leone. With Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè. 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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- Adventure, Drama, Western
- Sergio Leone
- 1967-12-29
- Why Clint Eastwood Didn't Want to Do The Movie
- Director Sergio Leone Didn't Speak English
- "When You Have to Shoot, Shoot! Don't Talk!"
- The Bridge Explosion Had to Be Filmed Twice
- Eastwood Didn't Really Like Cigars
- The Movie's Title Was Initially Different
- Wallach Had Near-Death Experiences During Filming
- The Idea of The Movie Came Randomly During A Meeting
- The Actors All Spoke Different Languages
By the mid-1960s, Clint Eastwood had already done a number of westerns so he was looking to do something new. When he was asked to appear in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, he declined. He was disappointed to find out that he'd be sharing the screen with two big actors namely Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef. He also didn't like the fact that Wallach's ...
Shocked? Don't be. Sergio Leone is one of Hollywood's legendary directors but he really didn't speak English. He could only communicate in Italian and French. This didn't discourage him from working with American actors since he always had a translator by his side. RELATED: The 10 Best Westerns Ever Made Ranked, According To IMDb So, he never reall...
This is one of the most popular quotes from the movie but it wasn't in the script. Wallach simply came up with it in an instant and the crew started laughing. Director Sergio Leone thus decided to keep it. Interestingly, the best lines sare never in the script. A popular example is Joe Pesci's "You think I'm funny?" line in Goodfellas. The quote ab...
There is a scene where Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) blow up the bridge leading to the cemetery where the Confederate gold is buried. They do this while the war is going on. Apparently, Spanish soldiers were hired to play the Civil War soldiers. During filming, a set member was supposed to blow up the bridge when he heard the word...
Throughout the movie, Blondie (Eastwood) smokes as many cigars as a billionaire on a yacht. You'd think he'd been doing it all his life but he really hated them. Apparently, Sergio Leone was a perfectionist who liked doing very many takes before settling on one so Eastwood had to smoke over and over again. This disgusted him. RELATED: The Dollars T...
The first title of the film was I due magnifici straccioni (The Two Magnificent Tramps). It was later changed because screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni thought it wasn't good enough. He thus came up with Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo(The Good, the Ugly, the Bad). The executives at United Artists had also planned to use River Of Dollars andThe Man W...
In the scene where Blondie shoots the rope around Tuco's neck, the horse took off prematurely after getting spooked by the sound of a gunshot. This result in Wallach hanging dangerously on the horse with his hands tied for about a mile. And in the scene where Wallach kills a Union soldier and escapes from a train, he almost got decapitated by the t...
Leone's first two films in the "Dollars Trilogy" were hits in Europe but they hadn't been released in America yet. In an effort to make the movie available in the US, Leone invited United Artists executives to Italy to watch the first two movies and discuss a distribution deal. The meeting went well. RELATED: 10 Western Books Too Twisted To Be Made...
The cast of the movie consisted of actors from different countries. As a result, actors were allowed to perform in their native languages. Eastwood, Wallach and Van Cleef spoke in English. Their conversations were dubbed into Italian for the movie's Italian release. For the American release, the voices of the three main actors were used exactly as ...
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97% Tomatometer 77 Reviews 97% Popcornmeter 100,000+ Ratings. In the Southwest during the Civil War, a mysterious stranger, Joe (Clint Eastwood), and a Mexican outlaw, Tuco (Eli Wallach), form an...
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