Review of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) by Dario P — 10 Nov 2017
The best of the 'Dollars' trilogy I have been engrossed in for the past few weeks if not one of the best films I have seen. Lead star Clint Eastwood has overtaken the late Sir Roger Moore and Jack Nicholson as the coolest actor out there!
The film boasts a real budget now that uplifts it from the previous entries whilst still keeping its Italian crew and locations. Great locations.
Lee Van Cleef returns as one of three rogues, the bad.
Eli Wallach is the ugly. He actually has the most screen time.
Clint, the man with no name apparently has yet another name in this film, Blondie. He is classed as the good.
The story centres on the search for stolen confederate gold hidden in the grave of a person in which only Blondie knows the identity of in a cemetery of several thousand bodies.
Director Sergio Leone uses sweeping landscape shots and close ups of the characters eyes with fast editing techniques at the climax in the cemetery as the three search for the money in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
The music score of these Westerns by Ennio Morricone doesn't disappoint. The famous orchestration of the score is well known. The most famous being Ecstasy Of Gold.
The ultimate western. Where do I go from here? The Wild Bunch?
This review of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) was written by Dario P on 10 Nov 2017.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has generally received very positive reviews.
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