Film review: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

# Action and adventure films

# Clint Eastwood

# Westerns

cert (15)

Sergio Leone's 1966 classic is rereleased at its original three-hour length: the grisly-brilliant story of three amoral gunslingers in the parched American west on the trail of hidden Confederate gold. Theoretically, Clint Eastwood's character is the "Good" but he's the worst of them all; Eli Wallach is his duplicitous partner, "the Ugly", and Lee Van Cleef plays part-time mercenary Angel-Eyes, "the Bad". 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.

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