The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary 

Me & the boys had a long hard talk, and we reckon you made up that whole thing about how to cool down a hot pig.

Sergio Leone made movies like they were operas, setting aside minutes at a time to just let the composer go nuts in the equivalent of an epic aria. And I'm so thankful he and Ennio Morricone found each other, and created a partnership on the same level as Spielberg and Williams.

Little known fact: the actor who played Tuco (Eli Wallach) knew nothing about guns. So, in the scene where he goes into the store and picks out a gun was just him improvising. He was told by the director (Sergio Leone) to just play with the guns and make it look like he knew what he was doing. His improvisation made that scene one of the more memorable ones in movie history.

Fun Fact, the skeleton in the grave is a real skeleton. An actress had it in her will that she would keep doing movies after she died, and it was cheaper than getting fake bones.

The significance of Tuko smoking the cigar is that it's still lit. Meaning he is getting close.

Almost all the extras outside the three main characters were speaking Italian. So all of those lines are dubbed. As someone else mentioned, this is why these were called "spaghetti westerns" vs the traditional John Wayne type westerns from the 50s where white hat/outfit meant good guy and black hat/outfit meant bad guy. You hit the nail right on the head when you asked if Clint Eastwood was really the good guy, because in this movie it's not black and white for who's good and who's bad. This was the dramatic change from the traditional western.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk. One of my favourite lines from any movie.

Eli Wallach in the role of Tuco is fantastic in this movie. Another great western from that era is "Once upon a time in the west" with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda

*The Magnificent Seven* is a magnificent western that doesn't get acknowledged enough these days. Yul Brynner is iconic in the movie, as is the music. You will be humming the theme for days afterwards.

"This town ain't big enough for the both of us" is one of those quotes that has gained a life in the the lexicon of westerns. It was first said in The Western Code (1932) but has been said by many characters including Woody in Toy Story.

Fun Fact: 10:16 Lee Van Cleef, the actor for Angel Eyes, actually refused to do the scenes where his character hits her ,even if it is pretend ,so they had to get a double to do it and used camera tricks to hide his face

Unforgiven- Clint directs and starsis an absolute must. Character masterpiece. Outstanding performances from all involved. Quoted that movie from when it was released in college to my teenage boys today. Could be Clint's tribute to Sergio as Main character is neither a black hat or white hat.

This is actually the third movie in a trilogy, but each film can be appreciated without having seen the others. The other two are "A Fistful of Dollars" and "For a Few Dollars More." Each one has its classic, memorable moments that still get quoted and spoofed today.

There are so many ways to detect that Tuco is the true protagonist. One is that he’s the one that takes the time to treat himself. You never really see the other two just indulge in basic human behavior. Angel Eyes can’t even eat food unless he’s doing it to be intimidating but Tuco makes time for a nice bath with salts right in the middle of a military route.

The wet socks thing is trenchfoot. Gangrene is necrosis due to lack of bloodflow in your tissues and can be caused by many things. We have gotten better at dealing with it but it is still around.

I’ve seen this prob 50x and still love the scene where Tuco is cheering the Confederacy not realizing it’s Union troops in dusty uniforms. A ton of underrated lines in this film!

"The Outlaw Josey Wales" Should be your next Clint Eastwood western. So many Iconic scenes and lines.

Eli Wallach as The Ugly is by far my favorite part of this movie -- particularly when he meets his brother.

This was one of the more popular of the "spaghetti westerns", so named because they were made by Italian directors. A lot of older western fans, like your grandpa, did not like those movies, as they often clashed with the traditional westerns made in Hollywood. I, as someone in their early 50's, have enjoyed both styles. My favorites amongst this genre are actually comedies, "They Call Me Trinity" and "Trinity is Still My Name".

I always thought that Tuco got some of the crimes he was charged for pinned on him because he didn't mind increasing his reward money, it is a business model and he is a survivor. As others said before, he is definitely the protagonist, because he comes across as very human with all his flaws. He is not a stupid or evil man, rather a glutton and egoist in a desperate world. He does not enjoy the killing as Angel Eyes does (except for revenge).

The theme of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" was a hit single in 1968/69. The album soundtrack reached #4 on the album charts. The music was heard everywhere.

"I wonder what kind of Western story takes 3 hours to tell?" Not me over here loving all 6 hours and 24 minutes of Lonesome Dove.

I was 3 years old in 66 and my Dad was a projectionist at our local drive-in. GBU was the very first drive-in movie I ever saw, and my Pops was showing it, , , so you can imagine that this movie has a very special place in my heart!

Now you have to watch the Danish National Symphony Orchestra perform The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It is epic.

Lee Van Cleef (The Bad) was originally cast a a "bad guy" in several of these movies, but he became popular and eventually gained starring roles. Look him up in a series of movies playing a character named Sabata

This is easily one of the most timeless westerns and movies of all time for one simple fact: Despite the monikers given to them, all 3 characters are more complex than they seem initially Blondie (The Good) is the most morally consistent of the three. He is still greedy , cunning, endgangers others, but frequently shows a sense of empathy for those around him and is capable of some sense of honor. Shown especially in the end when he says goodbye to Tuco the best way he knows how, while getting back at him a bit, and riding off never to be seen again. Angel Eyes (The Bad) is the same as Blondie, but with no humanity to speak of. His only goal is ambition and self-interest, with his only "good" trait bring that he always fulfills a contract. Other then that there is no line he won't cross. And for the most of the movie, this put him at an advantage... that is until the final showdown where he had no way to escape as both Tuco and Blondie wanted him dead and trusted each other more than they did him. His coldhearted greed gave him a headstart, but destroyed him in the end. Tuco (The Ugly) is by far the most complex character in this movie because he's simply *human* He's a reprehensible coward that really lives up to his nickname of *"The Rat"* But the longer the movie goes on the more we learn of his past and what he would and wouldn't do. The idea that he pays his due tenfold is a pretty good way to sum up his character. In his mind, he was dealt a sh!t hand. Born and raised in a place where you had to kill just to put food on the table and where the criminals took what little the poor alredy had. So, naturally, he decided enough was enough and survived by all means neccesary and took care of his family for as long as he was able, while his brother ran off to escape poverty by becoming a priest. This doesn't make him good or even that sympathetic when you look at his laundry list of crimes, but it makes him understandable. The reason he looks so rough and dirty is because he's relied on only himself for years. And when he DID team up with someone else, he usually used them as cannonfodder to live another day. But by being forced to spend days and weeks with Blondie he legitimately bonds with him and they arguibly bring out the best in each other. So much so that, by the end, you *want* Tuco to succeed as he becomes more of a protagonist than Blondie. And the fact that Tuco gets his half of the gold at the end and has the final words in the whole movie is just perfect PS: fixed some grammatical errors

The movie was directed by an Italian, filmed in Spain, and used actors from at least three different countries. The idea was to have the actors speak their own languages and dub in later. That dvd documentary goes a little bit into the care taken to try to get the dubbing as natural as possible. The instance I remember is when the solder commands the musician prisoners to play during Tuco's torture scene. The actor was Italian. His line was "piu forte", which means "Louder". But "louder" didn't fit the lip movements. But "more feeling" approximates that movement pretty well and the general meaning of the command still stood. I found that fascinating.

I'm sure a lot of people have discussed this already, but Italian films like this one (this is where the term "spaghetti Westerns" comes from -- Westerns made by Italians) are completely dubbed. Everyone in the cast simply speaks their own language during production, and the actors come in and dub their parts after the fact in various languages, so there is technically no "original" language track. The trivia piece you read was referring to the fact that Eastwood and Eli Wallach (Tuco) came back to complete their dubbing for the additional scenes in 2003, which is of course 37 years after they shot the movie, and you can hear the age in their voices if you're looking for it. The two major additional scenes are Tuco in the camp talking to the chicken, and Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes) coming across the military company with the messy drinker and learning a bit more about Bill Carson (LVC had passed away by that point, and was dubbed by someone who did an impression of his voice). The good (heh) news is that the extended cut in this case is actually the most common version of the movie, including on streaming services. It is only in recent years, with the release of the movie on 4K UHD, that there has been some discussion about the possibility that director Sergio Leone cut the scenes intentionally and the shorter cut was his preferred version. The movie was released at the beginning of the DVD era back in 1998 as the theatrical cut, and then it wasn't until 2021 that it got another home video release with the aforementioned 4K UHD. All the DVDs and Blu-rays in between were this longer version, as well as all the digital versions I'm aware of. Also, if I were picking another great Western, I would love to see you watch True Grit (2010). I know many classic Western fans will complain about choosing the remake over the John Wayne version, but having read the book last year, the Coen Brothers version is the one that has the book down pat.

"The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" is one of my Top 10 of all time. Tuco is the best character in it and has one of my favorite lines in cinema history. "If you're going to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

The musical theme & other music from the movie are iconic. The music has been sampled & used very many times. It was even been done by symphonic orchestras. The fact you knew the music over 50 years after the film was released speaks to an enduring popularity.

Alright so this was in the genre called Spagetti Western where they were made in Italy. This was the third entry in a trilogy of films called The Man With No Name in reference to Clint Eastwood as his character has no name. All three films are A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More (which is my favorite of the three) and this film. All of them were directed by the same man Sergio Leone and the same composer Ennio Morricone. Some westerns I recommend: Silverado (Kevin Costner, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum), The Frisco Kid (Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford), High Noon (Gary Cooper), The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach), Once Upon a Time in the West (Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson), The Cowboys and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (the only two John Wayne films I like), When they encounter the Civil War it is making a point of all the bloddshed being pointless from an outsiders perspective.

The Italians dubbed all their movies. Even the Italian versions would have the dialogue done later in a voice studio instead of capturing the dialogue on the set. It made it really easy for them to do international versions of Italian films and develop an international reputation.

This movie has made those five notes of the main soundtrack so iconic for 'duels' that it has made its way into almost any scene to indicate that a standoff is being made. You'll almost always hear that little riff starting, even if it's just those five tones. :)

There's a very cool little extra on the DVD for this movie with stories about how it got made. Eli Wallach (The Ugly) knew nothing about guns, and when Leone told him the basics of the gun store scene, confessed he didn't know what to do. "Improvise," Leone assured him. "Do whatever you want. It'll be fine." I've always loved the gun store scene.

Outlaw Josey Wales is an excellent example of Eastwood westerns (he 😂even directed). Great action with the right amount of comedy.

One of my all time favorite movies. I even named my dogs Tuco and Blondie.

This is one of my favorite Westerns ever. Eli Wallach as Tuco really steals the show.

Lee Van Cleef is one of the great villains of all time. He has been the bad guy in tons of 50s and 60s movies. He played a good guy in “ A Few Dollars More” the second film in this trilogy. This being the last film in the trilogy.

the scene where Tuco is recruiting his old gang is one of the restored scenes. the voice you hear is the same actor, but they brought him back at age 90 to re-record the lines. got to a concert with Ennio Morricone, and they played the score from this. it was a religious experience for me. if you liked this, i think you'd like A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More

The bridge that got destroyed was accidently blown up when the cameras weren't rolling and the Spanish military was so sorry that they rebuilt it to be blown up again. And Ennio Morricone music, its iconic. And several from this movie, the main theme, Ecstasy of Gold and the Trio.

another great spaghetti western is "Once Upon a Time in the West".

This movie was filmed in *SPAIN* by an Italian film crew and director, *Sergio Leoni* . All the extras are Spanish and Italian, no Americans here. 😄 Even the cemetery for the duel in the last scene was built in Spain.

I'm sorry I'm late with this bit of trivia I think you'll enjoy. The name Clint Eastwood is an anagram for "old west action"... _and it's his real name!_

The graveyard at the end is Sad Hill Cemetery in Burgos, Spain. It was built by the Spanish Army and, being a tourist site, can easily be visited. 😊

I actually really prefer "For a Few Dollars More" which features a lot of the same actors (but not characters). It has Lee Van Cleef (the Bad in this movie) as a good guy who works with Clint Eastwood's bounty hunter character. I think the acting and pacing is a lot better in that movie and a bit more emotional connection to the characters.

Ashleigh: "I don't feel like these old timey cowboy guns with these open sights are that accurate." Me: (laughs in Quigley Down Under)

You don't have to put "For a Fistful of Dollars" on your site but if you want to see the first Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, it sets up his whole character. The entire movie is a remake of another Akira Kurasawa samurai movie, Yojimbo, 1961, almost line for line and scene by scene. It's become a classic and has been remade not only as a western with Clint Eastwood, but also as a gangster movie with Bruce Willis, "Last Man Standing," from 1996. Those three movies starred three of the most well known action stars of Japan and the US. Toshiro Mifune was the lead in the samurai version. Often referred to as "Japan's John Wayne," Mifune was a really good actor and in conjunction with Kurasawa, made several films that have been copied numerous times. He was the comic samurai in "Seven Samurai" and played everything from a wandering ronin to Admiral Yamamoto in the 1976 film, "Midway."

Fun detail. The music that you so liked to sing along to was actually played during the scenes being shot. So the actors, during the filming of that great duel at the end, heard the same as you do. Some of them said it helped them feel into the situation a lot.

Another good spaghetti western is called My Name is Nobody (1973). That has a big name actor as the gunslinger legend, who nobody could out-draw. Very interested in your reaction to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. This has a catchy theme song, and an impressive story.

To answer a couple of your questions: 1) Sometimes, in frontier towns like that, the guns for sale in general stores weren't new. Shop keepers would occasionally encounter someone trying to unload a gun or two that the owner didn't need anymore. It was a good deal for the shop keeper because he'd buy the gun cheap and sell it for a lot, so there typically weren't a lot of questions asked about where they came from. Of course, some of the guns weren't well maintained, which isn't something a professional gunslinger would want. Tuco was smelling the cylinder because he was trying to determine how long it had been since it had been cleaned. A strong gunpowder smell would indicate poor maintenance. 2) Cobbling together a functional gun from several mediocre condition guns is a tricky process as pieces from different manufacturers or model guns aren't necessarily meant to be interchangeable. He was listening to the action to make sure that the parts he had assembled were working together as they should. Incompatible parts can lead to catastrophic failure, including the gun cylinder exploding and taking a finger or two with it. And I'd just like to point out that the level of knowledge required to know that this is even possible, nevermind successfully DOING it, cannot be overstated. So you were VERY right when you said Tuco was smarter than he looked.

I think the Ugly sniffed the gun to check the freshness of the gun's oil. If a gun is not oiled regularly it becomes less reliable. No, it was not a drug case. It is monkfish, a form of tobacco made to be snorted. When a person is too dehydrated, giving him/her too much water to drink can be deadly. Has it ever happened to you that you were very thirsty and after drinking water you felt as if you had a fever? The temperature rises suddenly, the body does not react well, so you have to rehydrate it gradually. Gangrene is literally the rotting of the tissues of your body. It usually occurs in the extremities due to infection of a wound. The cemetery in the last scene was created especially for the film, near a town (in Spain) and can still be visited. Clint Eastwood's poncho was something improvised for a movie and marked his look in many of the westerns he made

Italian films at the time were usually shot without sound,partially because many of the movies had multi-cultural casts who all spoke their own languages,and were dubbed in each language later.

"For a Few Dollars More" is my favourite in the trilogy.

2 Staples of the Western you need to see. This was one of them, and the other is "The Magnificent Seven", one of the last traditional "good guys" westerns (based on a classic Japanese film "The Seven Samurai"). You will recognize most everyone starring in it as well! Another good one to watch as a modern comparison is "Quigley Down Under" with Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman!

i saw this in Anaco Venezuela when I was 8 years old. Our family was down there helping the Venezuelans drill their oil and in the days when Americans were loved down there...we say this is a theatre where beggar children had little packets of warm peanuts that they sold during the movie instead of popcorrn....You really took me back today to a simple time and a magical childhood. Love you!!!

Story time. How I was introduced to Clint Eastwood the cowboy. About 30 years ago, my dad started a new business building an Ice Cream Van (or truck in the US) and he wanted a specific tune to play while driving around. He wanted to use a chime he had heard many years before in a Clint Eastwood film but could not remember which one. So, one day, me him and my brother went to our local video store and rented out all of them and would sit and watch to find the right one. Spent days looking and enjoying each one of his Westerns. Since then, I fell in love with all his old films and he became a hero of mine. Turns out the tune he wanted was the infamous pocket watch melody played in the number 2 of the Dollars Trilogy, 'For A Few Dollars More'.

Jesus Christ! I am shocked that you are reacting to this film. It's probably the 2nd or 3rd greatest western ever made. I can't wait to watch this!

Sergio Leone did not make typical Westerns of the time, normally westerns had clear good guys and bad guys, and the good guy always wins. Sergio made his much more morally grey, and based heavily on cinematics and suspense. Sergio based a lot of his filmwork on old samurai movies adapted to the wild west, and in turn Quentin Tarantino adapted Sergio Leone Westerns into his more modern movie styles.

When you have to shoot, shoot; don't talk. Classic line from a great western.

Ah, but you missed part of that scene with the brothers: remember Tuco says he stayed with the family while his brother went to become a priest. Tuco took care of the family to begin with. It's a complex, complicated relationship, and there is a reason the brother asks Tuco for forgiveness ... even though Tuco can't hear him.

When you started with listing all those Wild West movie stereotypes, I knew it's going to be fun, because this was the very definition of the movie to subvert most of those stereotypes.

Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez or "The Ugly" is the greatest name to ever grace a cinematic screen. Thanks for the review!

6:29 before "safety matches" were invented all matches were "strike anywhere matches". 18:28 he is inhaling snuff, basically powdered tobacco

Ashley: "A drinking test? What kind of enlistment test is this." And the current military members and veterans think all at a once: "A realistic one."

Ecstasy of Gold, the opening music, was covered by Metallica on their S&M album with the symphony. Love it.

There are two kinds of people in this world my friend; those that enjoy the spaghetti westerns and those that have never seen them. Welcome to the club To answer your question about what Tuco was doing with the guns in the shop, that whole scene was basically improve. Even the actor didn't know what he was doing, he was just making it look like Tuco "knows" guns

Great reaction, Ashleigh. You should do reactions to a few other Westerns, 'A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars More', 'Once Upon a Time in The West' and 'Unforgiven', I promise that you won't be disappointed.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who think Clint Eastwood is the greatest cowboy actor ever, and those who are wrong.

Unforgiven (92) and Gran Torino (08) are probably his two most highly-regarded works.

Watching this movie every day, when my son was in the hospital was the only thing that kept me sane. I love this movie, and I loved this vid!

"listen fight on the bridge, bottleneck them in or blow the bridge down and make them have to wade in the water. But what to I know? nothing about war. nothing about combat strategy" -- Ashleigh instantly identifying both ideal combat strategies for this situation.

Clint’s debut movie was “Tarantula” about a decade earlier. It was a very small part. He was also a regular on the tv series “Rawhide”. A western series, of course.

Ooh, love this film! Dark, funny, sun-burnt picaresque AND picturesque if you like desolation. Great stuff. Being filmed in Spain with Italian actors and a crew from both kind of lends all the Civil War stuff an extra layer of black comedy and Goya level visual horror. Italy had its civil war in WWII and Spain's was still an extremely painful memory, so it feels like they really channelled that brutality that other films glossed over. For all that though, still a massively charismatic movie and Eli Wallach as Tuco is just magnificent. Cool reaction, Ashley! Glad ya liked it!

The gun shop scene was largely totally improvised by Eli Wallach (Tuco, the Ugly). Wallach didn't klnow anything about guns, but Director Leone saw it was convincing as someone assembling a gun with perfect action, barrel, and trigger pull.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a GREAT western too!

Not a fan of westerns but the ‘man with no name’ trilogy and ‘Once upon a time in the west’ are endlessly watchable. The paving, the story, the soundtrack, all top notch.

Other Clint Eastwood westerns to check out: Unforgiven, Pale Rider and my favorite, The Outlaw Josey Wales.

This movie was very different than most westerns. At the time, it was a clear sort of John Wayne good guy versus bad guy without much creativity outside of that regarding character dynamics. This was the first western that broke that mold with the "Good" being not all that good.

The G, B, & U was the third movie of the "Dollars Trilogy". ALL with Clint, 1st - "A Fistful of Dollars", 2nd - "For a Few Dollars More". As far as Eastwood westerns, MY favorite is "The Outlaw Josie Wales". And: "High Plains Drifter" is the most surreal.

I love "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", but I think I love "Once Upon a Time in the West" a little more. It just had a great revenge story. The intro scene is still one of the best ever shot. And I really love how all the main characters had their own theme music (probably where George Lucas got the idea for his character theme music for "Star Wars".)

Honestly this is one of my favorite Clint Eastwood films. The cinematography is amazing...

For the scene where Tuco was putting the pistol together from different guns...the actor had no idea what he was doing, he improvised the entire scene (for the gun construction anyway). John Wick ch 3 has a scene that pays homage to that scene

Fun fact is that Quentin Tarantino is a big spaghetti Western fan and Kill Bill vol 1 & 2 both contain music from spaghetti westerns scored by Ennio Morricone, including from The Mercenary (known as A Professional Gun in the UK), which is a fantastic spaghetti western by the other Sergio, Sergio Corbucci.

This is a Spaghetti Western, the most iconic genre of Western movies as we typically think of them today. They are so named because they came mostly out of Italy (hence the dubbing and the premiere in Rome). They are in many ways responsible for the myth of the wild west, though they did not originate the concept (Wild Bill Hickock's old Wild West Show really initially spread the idea). The actual old west was not nearly that wild. You've seen Tombstone. The shootout at the OK Coral was because they were refusing to follow the town's gun control laws. 3 people died and that deathtoll shocked people. Today, it wouldn't even make national news. The wild west was not that wild, nor all that far west.

I'm so glad you gave this one a high score: it's an old familiar movie in our family: our radio station played the music long before I watched the movie, which I did in bits and pieces on broadcast tv, in b&w, over long stretches of time. I cried about the captain with the bridge; and also for Tuco and his brother. Eli Wallach steals it for me, and Lee van Cleef was perfection. Leone hired him because "his eyes burn through the screen." Confession: Clint Eastwood has never been "my guy". Something about him hits me wrong, though I have no idea what it is. As a director, he is marvelous. And I know he's a great actor, but, as with Steve McQueen, something about him is not for me. That said, this may be my favorite way to see him. Blondie is a very good character, who, arguably, is the only one of the three who grows, learns and changes. Again, that scene between the brothers is important because to me Blondie listening in on that and learning about Tuco is the start of his beginning to allow empathy. It manifests when he seems to feel something about the possibility that Tuco's been killed by Angel Eyes. And blowing up the bridge is as much for the dying captain as it is for him and Tuco. Very cool movie. Very cool character.

Love this movie, it is so well made. I could talk about the film, both the theatrical and director's cut, for hours on end. One of my favorite movies. My dad liked Westerns, and I imagine he was happy when his boys ended up liking Westerns, too. One of the local channels used to run theme weeks for their nightly movies, and one week it was "Squint like Clint" week, and they played five of his Westerns. They started out the week with his Man With No Name Trilogy, and it was awesome. Some of my favorite memories are times I had with family, and many of that time was spent watching classics on TV in the living room.

This is the 3rd of a Trilogy. The Man with No Name series. 1. Fist Full of Dollars. 2. For A Few Dollars More. 3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. They're known as "spaghetti westerns" Because they were made in & by an Italian movie maker. It was an affectionate nickname.

I spent a lot of time at my aunts house when my mom would be working. They had a little farm with huge horses. They loved watching western movies so I think I've watched them all until 1990, and some more afterwards. The only thing we didn't like about them was having to clean all the dust from the living room. 😋

Glad you enjoyed it. Unfortunately you've watched the last film of the Dollars Trilogy first. But, saying the stories aren't connected, you can still do the first two. Start with A Fist Full of Dollars and then A Few Dollars More. The best part is Clint Eastwood is the lead in both of them 😁

Haven't watched your reaction yet but this is a really heavy duty introduction to Westerns! I would have recommended The Outlaw Josey Wales (starring and directed by Clint) as a great opener.

I've watched this movie so so many times and never realized that it was 3 hours long until Ashleigh said it..

One of my first experiences with the devil's lettuce was watching The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, back in the early '90s, in college. Which was a magnificent, out-of-this-world experience.

My favorite western is Silverado (1985). All-star cast. Great fun.

Two things I'd love you to react to after seeing this... The Good the Bad and the Ugly by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Trust me! Would be a quick easy watch and I think you'd love how they do it. Kelly's Heroes from 1970. Just a fun watch and more of Mr Eastwood in his prime. Costars are an incredible all star cast. One of my favorites.

Clint Eastwood is a gun slinger, he is not a "Cowboy" per say. He is the mysterious gun slinger that comes into town and then moves on.

Fun Facts: "Spaghetti Westerns" were named due to being filmed in Italy (and Spain), because it was cheaper, by Italian directors. Italian films were dubbed because 1) It produced better sound quality than during filming, and 2) Actors would speak in their native language, then be replaced with whatever language they were going to be shown in.

Thank you to whomever requested this! Im guessing Inky Binky. :D

I hope someday you will watch Gran Torino. It's my favorite Clint Eastwood film. It's powerful and interesting.

Really glad to see you hit up this 60s classic! I was a bit late to the _Dollars_ trilogy but, despite not being a big Clint Eastwood fan overall, really love these films, they are fantastic! I hope you come back to the first two films, and even though I'm not much older than you, I hope you continue hitting up wonderful older films like these, by HItchcock, with classic actors like Bogart, Cagney, Hepburn, etc. etc. there's so many wonderful stories and characters and films to see!

When he was in the gun shop and rotating the cylinder on the revolver, he was testing the "lock up" of the cylinder. The The tighter and more solid it locks up on each individual chamber is a good indicator of the revolvers timing. When the cylinder rotates, it brings a chamber into line with the barrel for firing and locks it in place via a small notch on the outside of the cylinder which engages a latch connected to the trigger mechanism. A solid lock up improves accuracy where any misalignment results in poor accuracy and shaving lead from the projectile as it passes from the chamber into the barrel.