Hi friends in this article let us go some 43 years back and see one of the highest rated movie in IMDB and that is "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", which was released in 1966.Well I ve watched this movie just before writing this article and i assure you this is a good one but some might feel it is too slow to watch, but from my point of view I like the way in which the director has done this movie.

This frank is actually the third part of the trilogy,"The Dollers Trilogy", with the previous two parts being A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. To be very frank it is a very slow movie and it is around three hours but when you are a movie lover and that too if you are a fan of Cow boy type movies and that too adventurous, here is the right movie.

Mostly flimmed in the desert area, the theme of the movie is "Target is money, kill anyone who interrupt in the way".But the most important thing is that the movie also presents three important characters as the movie name says,i.e., the good, the bad and the ugly.

From my point of view I very much admired the character The Ugly and his character is more or less like the famous character in the American TV serial "PRISON BREAK" , Tee Bag.When I watched this movie this ugly character resembled the Tee Bag character in the Prison Break.

I guess some of you would have watched Prsion Break, for those who didn't get chance to watch, i will explain what is the character of Tee Bag.Well it is more or less the Chameleon type, where the Chameleon animal changes its color according to the situation very quick and the similar way the Ugly character in this film also change according to the condition, with money being his target.But I assure you that he is also seen as the comedian as he makes us laugh.

Apart from this character the other characters, i.e. the good and the bad are also money oriented but the way the approach marks their character name.The Good, will always be patient and he will never tortures others unless they disturb him and he is light hearted to an extent.The bad character can be distinguished from the ugly character in a way that he never changes his character as he is too bad and kills others unnecessarily.

Technical crew of this film

i)This film was directed by Sergio Leone, who was a famous Italian director,and the most important thing about this director is that he was the one who turned down the oppurtunity to direct all time great film "THE GODFATHER" as he was working for ten years for his dream film Once Upon a Time in America which was released in 1984 and runs for 4 hours.The image of the director is shown below.

ii)This film was produced by Alberto Grimaldi and distributed by the United arts and officialy it was released on 16th December 1966 in Italy and 1 year later in USA on 23rd December(1967)

iii)According to the reports the international version of the film was 16 minutes less than that of the Italian version.

iv)Sergio Leone and Luciano Vincenzoni are responsible for this film as they wrote the story for this film.

v)Music for this film is composed by Ennio Morricone

vi)The cinematography for this movie is done by Tonino Delli Colli

vii)The film editing was done by Eugenio Alabiso, Nino Baragli and Joe D'Augustine ,and of these three first 2 have done the original editing and restored version was done by Joe D'Augustine.

viii)The budget for this film is around 6 crores and the Gross revenue with respect to the present value of money is 737 crores.

Artists and casts

The name itself implies three main characters and these includes

i)Clint Eastwood as Blondie, to be specific he is "THE GOOD".He is so calm and never gets excited,but he is keen in his job.He accepted to act in this movie for 250,000 USD and also 10 % of the revenue form the North American Market.

Clin Eastwood who was acting in TV series earlier, utilized this opportunity and as a matter of fact this film is the turning point in his career and after this film in his Carrier he has won 4 Oscar Awards under the category, Best Picture and Best Director, for his film Unforgiven and Million Dollar Babby which was released in 1993 and 2005 respectively.

ii)Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes, to be specific he is "THE BAD".His character is simple kill anyone in his path for the money and never changes his character as he is ruthless and never feels bad for the sin of killing people.

Initially the director chose Charles Bronson for this character. But Charles was already committed for the film "The Dirty Dozen" and he has to reject his offer, which naturally gave way to Lee Van Cleef.The reason why the director hesitated for the first time to chose Lee Van Cleef is that in his previous film "For a Few Dollars More", his character was soft and romantic and he was worried how Lee Van Cleef will adopt to the Bad character.But to everyone's surprise his character was appreciated by all and to be frank I also loved this character better than that of Eastwood's.

iii)Now comes the character which I really admire and none other than "THE UGLY".Eli Wallach done this role and in this movie he is called as Tuco.Even his character was initialised at first instant and he was selected because of his comic character.

Before Eli Wallach, the director was in the idea of choosing Gian Maria Volonte for this role.This is the most important character and this is very close to Director and this made both the director and Eli very good friends.Only for this character we knew something about his history.

About the movie

It was during the middle of the American Civil War and the film starts in an abandoned village when three bounty hunters comes to the village in horses with the guns.They knew that Tuco was hiding in one of the building in that village and they want them to catch him as the Government announced 2000 USD for those who bring him alive.

So the three hunters goes inside an abandoned motel and it seems they are going to finish the job as they were shown very powerful and rough character.But after some gun fire, suddenly a man comes out of the motel breaking the glasses and escapes in a horse.After that they show that the three hunters were shot down by that man.This was none other than Tuco and he was introduced as "THE UGLY" when he was shown for the first time.

Next is the introduction of the character "THE BAD" and his motive was to find Bill Carson and in this scene he enters a village and goes inside a house, where he meets a former soldier Stevens and asks in which name Jackson was hiding and he was given USD 500 for this job by his boss.

Stevens was afraid and he says that Bill Carson was the new name of Jackson and he agrees to pay 1000 USD so that he could not be killed. But Angel kills him and also his son when being interrupted.Later he takes that 1000 USD and kills his boss after getting the name and he says that he was given 1000 USS for this job and he do whatever for money and this is enough to reveal this character.

Then it is shown that Tuco was ridding in a horse in the desert where he was caught by three bounty hunters who wants to capture him for the reward.This is the introduction of "THE GOOD" character, Blondie , where he saves Tuco form these hunters and to Tuco's surprise he kidnaps him and hands over to the Local town's Sheriff as he was most wanted.

But to everybody's surprise when Tuco was about to be hanged Blondie saves him by shooting at the rope when he was about to be hanged.After this both of them shares the money and they decides to implement this plan in another town and as per the plane Blondie hands Tuco to the Sheriff for 3000 USD and also saves him when he was about to be hanged.

But this time Blondie says that the partnership his over and he leaves Tuco in the desert without giving his share.Then Angel goes to a village and threatens a girl about the whereabouts of Bill Carson and finally he gets some information that he left a week ago.

Meanwhile tuco manages to escape from the desert and with the help of his friends he also found the horse of Blondie in a motel and he also catches him, after loosing his friends which he did intentionaly.But that time a huge explosion occurs and this saves Blondie and he escapes form that place.

But Tuco somehow manages to find Blondie and he marches him across the harsh desert, while he followed him in a horse.At one point of time Blondie was totally dehydrated and tired and Tuco decides to kill him.

At this time Tuco finds a runway carriage approaching him and he finds the bodies of Confederate soldiers. But there was one soldier who was alive and he said his name was Bill Carson and he asks Tuco for water and he is ready to pay even 200,000 USD for this.

Teco asks for the exact place where the money was kept and Bill Carson said it was in one of the grave located in Sad Hill cemetery and when Tuco asks for the name of the grave he asked to give water first.So Tuco goes to get water but when he returns he finds Bill was dead and he also noticed Blondie was found next to him and Blondie said that Bill said him a name of the Grave yard, before he becomes unconscious.

Then he takes the carriage along with Blondie disguised as the Confederate soldiers as they were wearing their dress and then he takes Blondie to a hospital(A old church) and he also said his name was Bill Carson and asks the father to help Blondie as he was ver close to him, but the only intention being getting the name of the Grave.

There Tuco finds his brother and this is the only time we know the past of any of our three characters and his brother who was a father says that he ran away from house when their parenst was killed and Tuco finally ends in a quarrel and leaves that place along with Blondie, who has recovered by that time.

While they were travelling in the carriage they found group of soldiers approaching them in gray shirts and they believed that it was Confederate soldiers and when they approached closer they found that their shirts was covered by dust and that made their shirt look like gray and at this time Blondie and Tuco found that they were Union soldiers and they were captured and kept in Union Prison.

Angel who was the superior officer there finds that one of the recently captured prisoner was bill carson(Actually it was tuco who said his name was Bill Carson) and he tortures Tuco and finds the secret that Tuco had,i.e., the money was in Sad Hill cemetery and Blondie knew the exact grave where it was kept.

So the next day Angel along with 5 of his officer takes Blondie to the Sad Hil cemetery and also sends Tuco with one of his office in the train for his execution.But somehow Tuco manages to escape form the officer and he reaches the town where Blondie, Angel and other 5 officers were staying.

Later Blondie manages to escape form Angel and then he was surprised to see Tuco there and after that they both joined together and they killed all the 5 soldiers those who came with Angel but Angel escaped from that place, but the problem is he knew where the money will be but he doesn't know the grave name, which was known only by Blondie.

On the way to the Sad Hill cemetery Tuco and Blondie caught in the fight between and union soldiers over a bridge and both of them finally managed to destroy the bridge with the help of explosiveve and when there were no soldiers left as the bridge was destoyed, Tuco goes to the Sad hill Sementry, before he exchanged the secret information with Blondie when he said the money was in the grave name called Arch Stanton.The image below shows Tuco and Blondie tries to blow up the bridge with the help of the explosives.

When they reach that grave they fond Angel was there and he holds the both at the gun point.But Blondie says that the money wont be there as he didn't say the exact name of the grave.Later all three stare at each other as they were looking for the correct alliance, and by this time Blondie manages to shoot Angel and when Tuco fires his gun he finds there was no bullet and he understood that Blondie was responsible for this.

Now Blondie says that Bill carson said that the money was in an Unknown grave which was located before the grave named Arch Stanton and after that he asks Tuco to dig the grave and there they founds four bags full of coins, worth 200,000 USD.

Then Tuco was under the gunpoint of Blondie and he also forces Tuco atop a grave marker and also asked him to wraps the noose around his neck.He also tied his hand and Tuco cant move or he will be dead.

After that Blondie takes half of the money and leaves that place.After moving some distance he shoots at the rope and saves Tuco and leaves the place with Tuco scolding and shouting at him.

The IMDB rating for this movie is 9 out of 10.