The final installment in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of the most ambitiously mounted, supremely exciting and eternally influential westerns ever filmed. An enigmatic loner (Clint Eastwood), a ruthless bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) and a Mexican bandit (Eli Wallach) fight to find a buried cache of Confederate gold amidst the violent chaos of the American Civil War. It remains one of cinema’s towering triumphs, a stylish, violent, and hugely entertaining classic backed by an unforgettable Ennio Morricone score.
“One of the monumental achievements in narrative filmmaking, Sergio Leone’s grandiose 1966 western epic is nothing less than a masterclass in movie storytelling, a dynamic testament to the sheer, invigorating uniqueness of cinema.” – Tom Huddleston, Time Out
