The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Page #7

Synopsis: A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Genre: Western
Production: United Artists
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.9
Metacritic:
90
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
R
Year:
1966
178 min
18,069 Views


Take a slug of this, captain...

...and keep your ears open.

What're you doing?

You realize we might be risking our lives?

If I get killed, you'll never get your hands on all that beautiful money.

It sure would be a pity.

Can you help me live a little more?

I expect good news.

Why don't we tell each other our half of the secret?

Why don't we?

You go first.

No, I think it's better that...

...you start.

All right.

The name of the cemetery is...

...Sad Hill! Now it's your turn!

The name on the grave is...

...Arch Stanton.

Arch Stanton?

Are you sure?

Sure, I'm sure.

It'd be a lot easier with that.

Two can dig a lot quicker than one.

Dig!

You're not digging?

If you shoot me, you won't see a cent of that money.

Why?

I'll tell you why.

'Cause there's nothin' in there.

You thought I'd trust you?

$ is a lot of money.

We're gonna have to earn it.

How?

I'll write the name on the bottom of this stone.

The gun?

You pig! You wanted to get me killed? When'd you unload it?

Last night.

You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend...

...those with loaded guns, and those who dig.

You dig.

Where?

Here.

There's no name on it!

There's no name here, either.

You see, that's what Bill Carson told me:

"There's a grave marked 'unknown', right beside Arch Stanton."

Go ahead.

It's money! It's all ours, Blondie!

You're joking, Blondie. You wouldn't... you wouldn't play a joke on me like that.

It's no joke. It's a rope, Tuco.

I want you to stand up there, and put your head in that noose.

Well, now...

...seems just like old times.

Four for you...

...and four for me.

Sorry, Tuco.

Hey, Blondie...

...you know what you are?

Just a dirty son of a...!

Got it. Thank you.

Hey, Corporal, afraid he'll get lost? Where's the Rebel going?

To hell with a rope around his neck and a price on his head.

Yeah, $ friend.

That's a lot of money for a head.

I bet they didn't even pay you a penny for your arm.

I told you once, but if I ever get you down...

...you're gonna need a lot of help to get up again.

You're a lot luckier than that one there.

You get some proper rope, and you're all finished.

And there isn't any partner, this time, to shoot you down.

Get up!

Sure would like to put your paw on it, huh?

I would like to piss, it's rough.

I've been shaken up in this train nearly ten hours, now.

You smell like a pig already!

Let's try not to make things any worse.

Get goin'!

I can't while you're watching me.

You made a lot of noise my friend, huh?

You don't wanna break our friendship, huh?

Well, I'll break it!

Clemens, take care of the horses.

I've been looking for you for eight months!

Whenever I should have had a gun in my right hand...

...I thought of you!

Now I find you in exactly the position that suits me.

I had lots of time to learn how to shoot with my left.

When you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk.

Every gun makes its own tune...

...and it's perfect timing, large one.

Clem, follow him.

Just a minute. I'll be right there.

Just give me a little time to get dressed, and I'll open up.

Put your drawers on, and take your gun off.

How the hell did you get out of that pigsty?

My own way. I'm here with your old friend Angel Eyes.

You talked, you traitor! You talked!

No, I didn't talk.

If I did, I probably wouldn't be here, now.

So, only you know your half of the secret?

I'm very happy you are working with me!

And we're together again.

I'll get dressed, I kill him, and be right back.

Listen, I forgot to mention.

He's not alone. There's five of 'em.

- Five? - Yeah, five of 'em.

So, that's why you came to Tuco.

It doesn't matter. I'll kill them all!

They shot him at close range.

Well, look who's here!

The other one will be along.

They'll come looking for us.

Watch out!

There's two of them.

I want that blond alive!

You back there. Come on, let's go!

Were you going to die alone?

Angel Eyes is mine.

All right.

"See you soon.

"Idiots."

It's for you.

How peaceful and quiet, amigo.

Like a cemetery, for instance?

There should be a bridge across that river.

We better wait for nightfall.

Trust in me, Blondie.

I got a good sense of where I'm going.

Tuco has taken you this far, I will take you all the way...

- Tell the captain. - Yes, sir.

Come along now. Follow me.

We found them near the perimeter, sir.

Where do you hail from?

Illinois.

And you?

I'm with him.

Your reason for being around here?

We want to enlist, general!

You'd better learn to distinguish rank.

I'm a captain!

Get the hell out!

It sure as hell might be you today, so go write your will.

So, you want to enlist.

You got to take a test to prove it.

Well, show me.

You've got a career. At the least, I'd say you'll make colonel!

- Really? - Sure!

Like it says in the manual.

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Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in Italy (usually making Biblical and Roman epics, much in vogue at the time). Towards the end of the 1950s he started writing screenplays, and began directing after taking over The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) in mid-shoot after its original director fell ill. His first solo feature, The Colossus of Rhodes (1961), was a routine Roman epic, but his second feature, A Fistful of Dollars (1964), a shameless remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), caused a revolution. Although it wasn't the first spaghetti Western, it was far and away the most successful, and shot former T.V. cowboy Clint Eastwood to stardom (Leone wanted Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson but couldn't afford them). The two sequels, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), were shot on much higher budgets and were even more successful, though his masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), in which Leone finally worked with Fonda and Bronson, was mutilated by Paramount Pictures and flopped at the U.S. box office. He directed Duck, You Sucker (1971) reluctantly, and turned down offers to direct The Godfather (1972) in favor of his dream project, which became Once Upon a Time in America (1984). He died in 1989 after preparing an even more expensive Soviet coproduction on the World War II siege of Leningrad. more…

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