Where to watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is available to stream in GB on Prime Video. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and 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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