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Best western ever
If there a better western movie has ever been made, I've missed it. I would praise "High Noon," *The Ox Bow Incident," "True Grit" "Lonesome Dove" (the TV mini-series)--but they don't measure up to this spaghetti western. It is odd that Hollywood, with the West in the studios' back lots and plenty of real cowboys to choose from, couldn't make a movie as good as this one, directed by an Italian and shot in Andalucia Spain. <
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>The plot is episodic, but what episodes they are--Eli Wallach defending himself successfully while sitting in a bubble bath, Angel Eyes reporting to the man who hired him as a killer, a pointless Civil War battle over a bridge, etc., etc. The plot finally settles on the attempt to recover some $200,000 in gold, buried in a cemetery. One man knows the name of the cemetery, but not the grave. The other knows the name on the grave marker, but not the location of the cemetery. The finale is a work of art. <
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>The atmosphere is magnificent, the sparsest, dryest land this side of the Taklamakan Desert, miserable hovels, ramshackle towns, horse flies that buzz and land on faces, manure--in a word, reality--so real one can see and hear and almost smell it. <
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>The non-featured characters are perfect, many of whom were not actors at all, but Spanish and Italian peasants. There is one actor with no legs, who crawls into a saloon and shouts, "Hand me down a whiskey." Hollywood would never have done that. Clint Eastwood is fine but mostly silent; his six gun does the talking for him. Lee Van Cleef is likewise fine, an evil looking armed man with no conscience or pity. But the real star is Eli Wallach, a little Mexican thief, liar, sadist, joker who is intent upon staying alive. He should have received several Academy Awards for his performance--one wouldn't have sufficed. <
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>Most westerns are just horse chases and random gunplay, with maybe a song here and there. The same old stories were told over and over. Not so with this movie. If anyone out there remotely likes westerns and hasn't seen "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," you're in for a rare pleasure.

A TURE CLINT EASTWOOD GEM OF A MOVIE
I THINK THAT THIS MOVIE IS A TRUE ART FORM AND DEFINITELY ONE OF CLINT EASTWWOOD'S BEST OF ALL TIME. ALSO THE PARTS OF ELI WALLACH AND LEE VAN CLEEF SHOULD NOT BE OVERLOOKED, THE BOTH WERE SUPERB! THE WHOLE PRODUCTION KEEPS YOUR UNDEVIDED ATTENTION AND LEAVES YOU WITH THE FEELING OF JUST VIEWING A "TRUE CLASSIC!!" I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE WITHOUT HESITATION!! THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY IS A GREAT BUY!!