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It doesn't matter how many times you watch this great classic movie, it continues to grab you each and every time. We owned the VHS, now the DVD and whatever comes out next, we will purchase this movie again. Clint is his cool self...always an air of mystery to him...confident and complex. The music will always be in your head, like the sound in a Jaws movie when the attack was about to happen, there is no mistaking this soundtrack either. Eastwood and Wallach compliment each other beautifully..knowing when to bond together and when to move with caution. Lee Van Cleef plays his role perfectly...cold-hearted, hard and with one obvious objective. Eastwood and Wallach show compassion when it is called for. Having been a fan of Eastwood from his beginnings in Rawhide to the present...I truly appreciate the joy he has brought all of us throughout his career...no disappointments with him. As our men watch macho Clint, we women get to smile to ourselves over that striking man on the saddle. I even nicknamed my younger grandson "Blondie" after Clint's character in this movie. After all, if Clint Eastwood can be called "Blondie", then any male can.Read full review
Clint Eastwood as Blondie, Eli Wallach as Tuco, and Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes, are all thrust together in the search for $200,000 in gold coins buried in a Confederate grave. Tuco knows the name of the cemetery, Blondie the name on the grave, and Angel Eyes is just a cold blooded killer who was searching for a man named Bill Carson, who stole the money. Blondie and Tuco have a professional respect for each other, but don't like each other personally. Blondie turns Tuco over to the law for the reward, and he is sentenced to hang. The list of charges against him basically include everything from bank robbery to rape and murder, along with all sort of confidence work. Just before hanging, Blondie shoots the rope and Tuco escapes. They split the money. This same scene is played out several times more, but Tuco keeps complaining about the split, wanting more money. So Blondie leaves him in the desert and takes all the money. Tuco survives and now swears vengeance against Blondie. When he catches up with him, he all but kills him in the desert, but when a wagon with some Confederate soldiers comes along, Tuco hears the story of the stolen gold. While getting some water for the guy before he dies, Blondie learns the name on the grave where the money is hidden. He already told Tuco the name of the cemetery. Now Tuco wants to be Blondie's best friend, and keep him alive. He takes Blondie to his brother's mission, where he is head friar. A few days later they leave, only to be captured by Union Soldiers. Using aliases, they are imprisoned in a Union POW camp where soldiers are routinely tortured and starved. Angel Eyes is there as a Union officer, and when he hears the name Bill Carson, he tortures Tuco until the name of the cemetery is revealed. Angel Eyes takes Blondie out of the prison, knowing that he would never talk, and they go after the treasure. Tuco manages to escape from Angel Eyes' assistant while in route to being turned in for the $3000 bounty. He catches up with Blondie, and together they kill all of Angel Eyes' gang. Angel Eyes escapes. Tuco and Blondie find their way to Sad Hill Cemetery, but it is blocked by large Union and Confederate forces who are separated only by a narrow bridge. Each side is preparing to fight for it, but apparently both sides have been ordered not to destroy the bridge. Reasoning that if the bridge were destroyed "these idiots would go somewhere else to fight", Blondie and Tuco wire the bridge with dynamite. During the process, the two trade information, Tuco revealing Sad Hill Cemetery as the gold's location and Blondie saying that the name on the grave is Arch Stanton. The two then take cover as the bridge blows up and the two armies resume their battle. The next morning, the Confederate and Union soldiers have gone. Tuco abandons Blondie (who has stopped to tend to a dying young Confederate soldier) to retrieve the gold for himself at the cemetery. Frantically searching the sea of makeshift tombstones and grave markers, Tuco finally locates Arch Stanton's grave. As he digs, Blondie appears (now clad in his trademark poncho) and tosses him a shovel. A second later, the two are surprised by Angel Eyes, who holds them at gunpoint. The money isn't there. Now in Mexican standoff style, the three are all squared-off, and the name of the real grave is on a rock in between them. Blondie shoots Angel Eyes. He and Tuco eventually split the money, after Blondie screws Tuco one last time.Read full review
Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard where a Confederate treasure is buried, while Blondie learns the identity of the exact grave. Joined by mercenary drifter Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), they cross the desert, each of the desperadoes knowing half the secret and each focusing his squinty eyes on the $200,000 bounty. In a classic that puts style above substance, Italian director Sergio Leone uses vivid Cinemascope imagery to depict a bleak and bloody American West in this final installment of his collaboration with Clint Eastwood in the Man with No Name Trilogy. A prototype for the so-called Spaghetti Western genre, the film solidified Eastwood's position as a major international star with his stoic, brooding presence. Cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli's stunning visuals are a match for the vivacious Ennio Morricone score, one of the most recognizable in all of cinema. Although the film was not released in the United States until 1967, it was produced and released internationally in 1966.Read full review
Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard where a Confederate treasure is buried, while Blondie learns the identity of the exact grave. Joined by mercenary drifter Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), they cross the desert, each of the desperadoes knowing half the secret and each focusing his squinty eyes on the $200,000 bounty. In a classic that puts style above substance, Italian director Sergio Leone uses vivid Cinemascope imagery to depict a bleak and bloody American West in this final installment of his collaboration with Clint Eastwood in the Man with No Name Trilogy. A prototype for the so-called Spaghetti Western genre, the film solidified Eastwood's position as a major international star with his stoic, brooding presence. Cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli's stunning visuals are a match for the vivacious Ennio Morricone score, one of the most recognizable in all of cinema. Although the film was not released in the United States until 1967, it was produced and released internationally in 1966Read full review
While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men- a quiet loner played by Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Gran Torino, Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, etc), a ruthless hit man played by Lee Van Cleef (Escape from New York, The Octagon, The Bravados, For a Few Dollars More, etc), and a Mexican bandit- comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing 200,000 in Confederate gold. In his third classic spaghetti Western with Eastwood, director Sergio Leone (Duck You Sucker, Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, etc)continued to shake up the western movie clan with stylish photography and a hefty dose of cynicism by Eastwood and Van Cleef. If you like the spaghetti westerns of the 60 s and early 1970s you will enjoy this one also. It is collectors item for Clint Eastwood movie devotees as well as classic westerns lovers. Will give you a full night of entertainment if you like this type of movie.Read full review
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