The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
98%RT Audience Score: 97%
Awards & Nominations: 3 wins & 6 nominations
Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.
If you’re looking for a wild west flick that’ll knock your boots off, look no further than this bad boy. It’s got everything you could want in a spaghetti western – a killer plot, actors that’ll make you swoon, scenery that’ll make you want to pack up and move to the desert, and a soundtrack that’ll give you goosebumps. Trust me, you won’t regret giving this one a watch. Yeehaw!
Production Company(ies)
Produzioni Europee Associate, Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas, Constantin Film
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Carazo, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain
MPAA / Certificate
R
Year of Release
1967
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Mono
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Aspect ratio:2.35 : 1
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Runtime:2h 41m
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Language(s):Italian
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Dec 20, 1967 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 7, 2006
Genre(s)
Western
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $25,253,887
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $254,098,058
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 574
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 27,709,712
US/Canada gross: NA
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend:
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $1,200,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $12,074,089
Production budget ranking: 1,592
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $6,501,897
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $235,522,072
ROI to date (est.): 1,268%
ROI ranking: 95
Eli Wallach – Tuco
Lee Van Cleef – Sentenza
Aldo Giuffré – Alcoholic Union Captain
Chelo Alonso – Stevens’ Wife (uncredited)
Mario Brega – Cpl. Wallace
Director(s)
Sergio Leone
Writer(s)
Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone
Producer(s)
Alberto Grimaldi
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
3 wins & 6 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (75) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (73) | Rotten (2)
It still looks a treat and a bold and largely successful attempt to recast the traditions of the genre in a new, sometimes critical, almost operatic way.
August 1, 2008 | Rating: 4/5
Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
TOP CRITIC
The new length gives a clearer view of the civil war context: a nightmare of panic as the south flees before the Union’s advance.
August 1, 2008 | Rating: 4/5
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
Re-released movies are forever claiming to be iconic, but few can hold the title as easily as Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
August 1, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
Amid the endless homages and the sheer adoration meted out to Sergio Leone’s ambitious, pricier finale to his Spaghetti Western trilogy, it’s easy to forget just how damn good the film is.
August 1, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine
TOP CRITIC
The third in the Clint Eastwood series of Italo westerns, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is exactly that — a curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadistic.
July 22, 2008
Variety Staff
Variety
TOP CRITIC
Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
March 28, 2007
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
While it may not be the best Western ever made – heck, it’s not even the best Western Leone ever made – it’s clearly the work of a master filmmaker whose style has never grown stale.
April 30, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
If you only see one spaghetti Western in your lifetime, this is the one to see.
April 27, 2021 | Rating: 8/10
Sarah Boslaugh
TheArtsStl
The score for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is magnificent. The main theme that plays over the titles is simultaneously of a specific time and also timeless.
March 24, 2021
Sarah Brinks
Battleship Pretension
Leone’s penchant for contrasting two kinds of shots, close-ups and long shots, finds its corollary in the gray or blue…Leone turns gray soldiers blue in the simplest way possible. Movies were invented for ideas like that.
January 26, 2021
A.S. Hamrah
n+1
Boasts what is often considered the greatest showdown ever filmed.
August 24, 2020 | Rating: 10/10
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
The quintessential spaghetti western.
August 4, 2020
Allen Almachar
The MacGuffin…
Plot
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
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