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Hyvät, pahat ja rumat

Original title: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
  • 19661966
  • RR
  • 2h 41min
IMDb RATING
8.8/10
722K
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Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
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Western

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.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.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.

IMDb RATING
8.8/10
722K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
778
82
  • Director
    • Sergio Leone
  • Writers
    • Luciano Vincenzoni(story)
    • Sergio Leone(story)
    • Agenore Incrocci(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Clint Eastwood
    • Eli Wallach
    • Lee Van Cleef
Top credits
  • Director
    • Sergio Leone
  • Writers
    • Luciano Vincenzoni(story)
    • Sergio Leone(story)
    • Agenore Incrocci(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Clint Eastwood
    • Eli Wallach
    • Lee Van Cleef
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 1.2KUser reviews
    • 147Critic reviews
    • 90Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #9
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 6 nominations

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    Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, Tonino Delli Colli, and Serena Canevari in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Clint Eastwood in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Eli Wallach in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Clint Eastwood in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Clint Eastwood in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Clint Eastwood in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Clint Eastwood in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Lee Van Cleef in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Eli Wallach in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
    Mario Brega in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)

    Top cast

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    Clint Eastwood
    Clint Eastwood
    • Blondieas Blondie
    Eli Wallach
    Eli Wallach
    • Tucoas Tuco
    Lee Van Cleef
    Lee Van Cleef
    • Sentenzaas Sentenza…
    Aldo Giuffrè
    Aldo Giuffrè
    • Alcoholic Union Captainas Alcoholic Union Captain
    Luigi Pistilli
    Luigi Pistilli
    • Father Pablo Ramirezas Father Pablo Ramirez
    Rada Rassimov
    Rada Rassimov
    • Mariaas Maria
    Enzo Petito
    • Storekeeperas Storekeeper
    Claudio Scarchilli
    • Mexican Peonas Mexican Peon
    John Bartha
    John Bartha
    • Sheriffas Sheriff
    • (as John Bartho)
    Livio Lorenzon
    • Bakeras Baker
    Antonio Casale
    Antonio Casale
    • Jacksonas Jackson…
    Sandro Scarchilli
    • Mexican Peonas Mexican Peon
    Benito Stefanelli
    Benito Stefanelli
    • Member of Angel Eyes' Gangas Member of Angel Eyes' Gang
    Angelo Novi
    • Monkas Monk
    Antonio Casas
    Antonio Casas
    • Stevensas Stevens
    Aldo Sambrell
    Aldo Sambrell
    • Member of Angel Eyes' Gangas Member of Angel Eyes' Gang
    Al Mulock
    • One-Armed Bounty Hunteras One-Armed Bounty Hunter
    • (as Al Mulloch)
    Sergio Mendizábal
    • Blonde Bounty Hunteras Blonde Bounty Hunter
    • (as Sergio Mendizabal)
    • Director
      • Sergio Leone
    • Writers
      • Luciano Vincenzoni(story) (screenplay)
      • Sergio Leone(story) (screenplay)
      • Agenore Incrocci(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Blondie, The Good (Clint Eastwood), is a professional gunslinger who is out trying to earn a few dollars. Angel Eyes, The Bad (Lee Van Cleef), is a hitman who always commits to a task and sees it through--as long as he's paid to do so. And Tuco, The Ugly (Eli Wallach), is a wanted outlaw trying to take care of his own hide. Tuco and Blondie share a partnership making money off of Tuco's bounty, but when Blondie unties the partnership, Tuco tries to hunt down Blondie. When Blondie and Tuco come across a horse carriage loaded with dead bodies, they soon learn from the only survivor, Bill Carson (Antonio Casale), that he and a few other men have buried a stash of gold in a cemetery. Unfortunately, Carson dies and Tuco only finds out the name of the cemetery, while Blondie finds out the name on the grave. Now the two must keep each other alive in order to find the gold. Angel Eyes (who had been looking for Bill Carson) discovers that Tuco and Blondie met with Carson and knows they know where the gold is; now he needs them to lead him to it. Now The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly must all battle it out to get their hands on $200,000.00 worth of gold. —Jeremy Thomson
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    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • They formed an alliance of hate to steal a fortune in dead man's gold
    • Genre
      • Western
    • Certificate
      • R
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      According to Eli Wallach, when it came time to blow up the bridge, Sergio Leone asked the Spanish Army Captain in charge to trigger the fuse, as a sign of gratitude for the Army's collaboration. They agreed to blow up the bridge when Leone gave the signal "Vai!" (Go!) over the walkie-talkie. Unfortunately, another crew member spoke on the same channel, saying the words "vai, vai!", meaning "it's okay, proceed" to a second crew member. The Captain heard this signal, thought it was for him, and blew up the bridge. Unfortunately, no cameras were running at the time. Leone was so upset that he fired the crewman, who promptly fled from the set in his car. The Captain was so sorry for what happened that he proposed to Leone that the Army would rebuild the bridge to blow it up again, with one condition: that the fired crewman be re-hired. Leone agreed, the crewman was forgiven, the bridge was rebuilt, and the scene was successfully shot.
    • Goofs
      You can see a car passing by in the background when Tuco is balancing on the cross on the graveyard in the end of the movie.
    • Quotes

      Blondie: You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

    • Crazy credits
      Although Eli Wallach has the most screen time and is one of the titular characters, he is credited as "...and Eli Wallach in the role of Tuco" after all the other actors' names appear.
    • Alternate versions
      Syndicated on US TV in 2006 as a 95-minute truncated version, missing almost half of its original length.
    • Connections
      Edited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985)
    • Soundtracks
      The Story Of A Soldier
      by Tommie Connor

    User reviews1.2K

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    Top review
    10/10
    Primal honesty and morality
    After many years of barely watching any movies, I treated myself to several classics recently. And this was the best.

    That I so enjoyed this movie so much came as a shock to me. I literally never before have been able to even sit through a western, which (in my admittedly limited experience) was schlock action starring John Wayne as the taciturn all-American good guy being tough and beating up the outlaws. Watching GBU, I was enthralled for the entire three hours. Twice. And if I had time, I would have watched it a third time.

    The setting is typically western: a dry, dusty panorama in which men barely co-exist with each other; few wasted words; and lots of action, horses, and gunfighting in a wild west barely governed by incipient institutions of law & order – all shrouded within a morality play of good vs. bad. But what I liked so much is exactly what I hate about John Wayne westerns – the seriousness and honesty with which moral context is considered. In Hollywood, good vs. bad is as thoughtlessly superscripted as the protagonists' white and black hats. In GBU every remnant of moralizing has been ruthlessly cut.

    Good, Bad, and Ugly are personified in the form of three characters: Bad ("Sentenza") is the easiest to understand. He is *very* bad, perhaps not so different from other villains, but much more sharply developed; murderous, sadistic, traitorous, and remorseless. Good ("Blondie") and Ugly ("Tuco") are more puzzling, but their labels are the key to the movie. Both Blondie and Tuco are outlaws and killers with only the barest hint of morality, but they're not evil in the same way that Sentenza is. Tuco is demonstrative, emotional, loud, wild, and unpredictable; but driven by survival rather than satanic urges. Blondie is cool, calm, rational and controlled – in many ways similar to Sentenza – but whereas Sentenza tortures, maims, kills, and lies for the hell of it, even apparently enjoys it, Blondie simply goes about his business coolly, and shows several poignant hints of empathy, decency, and a sense of justice.

    GBU takes place during the Civil War and strips away the high-level political struggle of history books, leaving us with the soldier's vantage point of brutality, pointless death, and some individual decency. The politics are indecipherable from this vantage point. GBU hits this point home when our protagonists wind up in a prison camp because the oncoming gray cavalry uniforms turn out to be dust-covered blue. Later, they encounter an army fighting over a worthless bridge, suffering countless pointless deaths and casualties. Because Leone has so rigorously excised traditional off-the-shelf morality, the few instances of humanity are remarkably poignant. One such instance is when Blondie shares his coat and cigar with a dying soldier; another is when prisoners are forced – by Sentenza's orders – to play music to cover up the screams of the tortured. Sentenza apparently enjoyed the irony of beautiful sounds used for such ends; the musicians are, of course, pained by it.

    That was one of many extraordinarily striking scenes. The honesty of the moral context was what I liked best about the film, but I liked everything else too. Indeed the same primal, ruthless honesty that characterizes the character development pervades the film. The music is unlike anything I'd ever heard – it's an audible version of the arid west and the tensions and lawlessness that characterize the film. Underlying the entire score is one instantly memorable theme starting off with what sounds like a screaming hyena. The story took place in New Mexico, and even though it was filmed in Spain, it really does look like New Mexico; and just as in life in the American west, the wide, breathtaking panorama tends to subordinates dialog. Indeed, it is several minutes into the film before even one word is spoken.

    The plot was extremely clever – and never predictable. High level suspense is maintained for the full three hours. It was hard to imagine how it could unfold – three uncompromising outlaws in search of one buried treasure; cooperation was not in their nature, but nothing was ever done out of character. Any Western cliché that you can think of is either given a unique twist or destroyed by masterful storytelling. For example there is an utterly irreverent scene in which Tuco meets his brother, a sincere Priest, and turns platitudes upside down. The brother begins with the standard rebuke of the criminal's behavior, but Tuco punches back and says, "Where we come from there were only two ways out. You lacked the courage to do what I've done." The movie is also irreverently funny: For example, Twice Tuco gained the upper hand on Blondie and said:

    "There are two kinds of spurs(?), my friend. Those that come in by the door, and (crosses himself) those that come in by the window."

    "There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those who have a rope around their neck and those who have the job of cutting." Later Blondie gained the advantage of Tuco and observed:

    "You see in this world there's two kinds of people my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig." In addition to all these specific attributes, a unique and strikingly cool style infuses the entire film: long scenes of tense silences – never for an instant boring; and telling, startling close-ups and transitions. Most noteworthy was the film's climax. As the protagonists stand there with their fingers on their holsters, waiting for the first person to go for their gun(s), the transitions start out slowly, and speed up as the tension increases. As I write this, I wish I had my own copy of the film, just so I could see this scene again.

    Not just a great western, but easily one of the best movies of *any* kind ever made.
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    13
    • steven-f-freeman
    • Dec 26, 2007

    FAQ20

    • Is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly a prequel to the two other Eastwood spaghetti westerns?
    • What was the large battle depicted later in the movie when the bridge was blown? Was it based on an actual battle?
    • During the detonation of the bridge, you can see an object flying towards Blondie and Tuco in their bunker. It hits a sandbag about 0.8 meters to the right of Blondie and you can see the actor jump when it hits. Were the actors in danger? The object seems to be heavy like a rock and about the size of a softball. Another meter to the left and Blondie would have been hit dead center.

    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 2, 1968 (Finland)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • Spain
      • West Germany
    • Official sites
      • Centrumfilmow
      • Film Gezegeni
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Goda, onda och fula
    • Filming locations
      • Carazo, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain
    • Production companies
      • Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA)
      • Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas
      • Constantin Film
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $1,200,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $25,100,000
    • Gross worldwide
      • $25,253,751
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      • 2h 41min
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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