Where to watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is available to stream in ES on Movistar+. It can also be rented or bought from Amazon.
As the Civil War rages, a quiet loner, a ruthless hired killer, and a Mexican bandit pursue a strongbox filled with stolen gold. Their search across a war-torn frontier forces these morally questionable rivals into uneasy cooperation, while each tries to outwit the others and claim the fortune.
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli, Rada Rassimov, Enzo Petito, Claudio Scarchilli, Antonio Casale, Livio Lorenzon, Sandro Scarchilli, Benito Stefanelli
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Trivia & production notes
- Sergio Leone traveled to California to convince Clint Eastwood to star in the film, negotiating a deal worth $250,000 plus 10 percent of North American profits that Leone himself was unhappy with.
- Leone initially wanted Gian Maria Volonté to play Tuco but chose Eli Wallach instead because he felt the role needed someone with natural comic talent.
- Leone selected Eli Wallach for the role of Tuco after seeing him perform in the "Railroads" sequence of How the West Was Won and screened the opening credits of For a Few Dollars More to convince the skeptical actor.
- Leone and Wallach communicated in French during filming, with Wallach speaking poorly and Leone speaking well, and the two developed a strong friendship.
- United Artists initially budgeted the film at one million dollars but eventually increased it to $1.2 million as Leone developed the script.
- The film's working title was The Two Magnificent Tramps until just before shooting began, when screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni suggested The Good, the Ugly, the Bad, which Leone immediately loved.
- Leone built the Civil War setting and cemetery scenes partly on archival photographs by Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner to convey the war's absurdity and tragedy.
- Several hundred Spanish soldiers constructed the Sad Hill cemetery with thousands of gravestones and wooden crosses specifically for the climactic Mexican standoff scene.
- An explosion during the bridge demolition scene destroyed all three cameras on the first take, requiring the Spanish army sappers to rebuild the bridge and film the sequence again.
- Eli Wallach faced three near-fatal incidents during filming: nearly poisoning himself with acid, being dragged by a panicked horse while bound with a noose around his neck, and nearly being decapitated by iron steps protruding from a train boxcar.
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