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Name: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Director: Sergio Leone
Genre: western
Released: 1966
Duration: 2 h 41 min
Rating: 8.8

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has an iRankMovies score of 90.4/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

For three men the Civil War wasn't hell. It was practice.

Release:1966

Runtime:2h 41m

Country:United States

Director:Sergio Leone

Language:Italian

Genre

Western

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Keywords

GoldArmyBounty HunterHitmanRefugeeAnti HeroMoral AmbiguityGallows

iRank90

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.8/10· 890K votes

Rotten Tomatoes97%

Metacritic90%

TMDb8.467/10· 10K votes

With 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.8/10 on IMDb and 90/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

Cast of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Clint Eastwood
as Blondie
Eli Wallach
as Tuco Ramirez
Lee Van Cleef
as Sentenza / Angel Eyes
Aldo Giuffrè
as Alcoholic Union Captain
Luigi Pistilli
as Father Pablo Ramirez
Rada Rassimov
as Maria
Enzo Petito
as Storekeeper
Claudio Scarchilli
as Tuco Henchman
Antonio Casale
as Bill Carson / Jackson
Livio Lorenzon
as Baker
Sandro Scarchilli
as Tuco Henchman
Benito Stefanelli
as Member of Angel Eyes' Gang

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly facts

Original title: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Budget: $1.2M
Box office: $38.9M

Our take on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The towering finale of Leone's Dollars trilogy turns a Civil War treasure hunt into a three-way duel of greed, set to Morricone's immortal score. Vast, operatic and laced with dark wit, it perfected the spaghetti western's widescreen standoffs and antiheroic cool. If its grandeur and moral murk gripped you, A Fistful of Dollars continues Leone's vision, while classic American westerns like The Searchers chase the same mythic scale of the frontier.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Mythic western aesthetic creates timeless tale of conflicted antiheroes seeking redemption
•Operatic visual composition and Morricone score elevate pulp narrative to art
•Economic storytelling delivers maximum impact through minimal dialogue and action

What the audience disliked

•Deliberate pacing reflects deliberate aesthetic but may frustrate action-focused audiences
•Minimal character development leaves psychological depth of motivations somewhat unclear