The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Western
Production: United Artists
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.9
Metacritic:
90
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
R
Year:
1966
178 min
16,197 Views


...of derailing a train in order to rob the passengers...

What'd you find out, Shorty?

If you ask me, it seems like a book!

An armed unit, escorting a cash box of gold coins, meets a Yankee ambush...

...and only three of them are saved.

Stevens, Baker, and Jackson.

The thing that wasn't saved, though, was the coins.

But then the Army decides, of course, it ought to hold a hearing...

...and Jackson's acquitted.

He disappears, and becomes Bill Carson.

I know his name.

But you don't know just who you're lookin' for, and I do!

And when he's found, I'd be scared to be put in his shoes!

- Where is Carson? - All I know is Carson re-enlisted.

The poor guy's minus an eye.

He lives with a girl called Maria, who'll tell you.

She's a fresh young whore in the territory.

Where is she?

Now, what's the name of that town? It's someplace very near...

Santa Ana.

Adiós, half-soldier.

Hand me down a whiskey!

Glad they got him. A man guilty of all those crimes!

People with ropes around their necks don't always hang.

What do you mean?

Even a filthy beggar like that has a protecting angel.

A golden-haired angel watches over him.

Of all these crimes, the accused has made a full, spontaneous confession.

Therefore, we condemn him to be hung by the neck until dead.

May the Lord have mercy on his soul. Proceed.

Let's get the hell out of here!

What are you saying? Anybody can miss a shot?

Nobody misses when I'm at the end of the rope!

You never had a rope around your neck. Well, I'm going to tell you something.

When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the devil bite your ass!

Yeah, you're right.

It's getting tougher.

The way I figure...

...there's really not too much future with a sawed-off runt like you.

What do you mean?

'Cause I don't think you'll ever be worth more than $ .

What do you mean?

I mean, our partnership is untied.

Oh no, not you.

You remain tied.

I'll keep the money, and you can have the rope.

You filthy, double-crossing bastard! Of all the stinking, dirty tricks...

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Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in Italy (usually making Biblical and Roman epics, much in vogue at the time). Towards the end of the 1950s he started writing screenplays, and began directing after taking over The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) in mid-shoot after its original director fell ill. His first solo feature, The Colossus of Rhodes (1961), was a routine Roman epic, but his second feature, A Fistful of Dollars (1964), a shameless remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), caused a revolution. Although it wasn't the first spaghetti Western, it was far and away the most successful, and shot former T.V. cowboy Clint Eastwood to stardom (Leone wanted Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson but couldn't afford them). The two sequels, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), were shot on much higher budgets and were even more successful, though his masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), in which Leone finally worked with Fonda and Bronson, was mutilated by Paramount Pictures and flopped at the U.S. box office. He directed Duck, You Sucker (1971) reluctantly, and turned down offers to direct The Godfather (1972) in favor of his dream project, which became Once Upon a Time in America (1984). He died in 1989 after preparing an even more expensive Soviet coproduction on the World War II siege of Leningrad. more…

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