The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, to not waste time the The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, is the greatest western of all time. The plot is great, the music is fantastic and the castings really fits,
　
PlotThe Good, Blondie(Clint Eastwood), and his partner The Ugly, Tuco(Eli Wallach), work together to make money by Blondie turning in Tuco and right before his hanging shoots the rope allowing him to escape. Later Blondie splits Tuco's bounty with him but Tuco starts demanding a larger split, but Blondie refuses. After doing the scheme a second time, Blondie takes the money and leaves Tuco in the desert. Tuco later attempts to kill Blondie and after a failed ambush he captures Blondie and takes him out into the desert.
Meanwhile The Bad, Angel Eyes( Van Cleef), has been hired to find a man named Bill Carson who has stolen Confederate gold, but Angel Eyes turns on his employer and starts his search for gold. Back in the desert Blondie is about to die of dehydration, but right before Tuco kills him, a Confederate stage coach races by and crashes. Tuco runs over to the stage coach to rob the soldiers, a dying Bill Carson tells Tuco that he has hidden the gold in Sad Hill Cemetery, but falls unconscious before he reveales the location of the grave he's hidden it in. When Tuco returns to the coach with water he finds Blondie there and Carson dead, Blondie then tells him that Carson gave him the name on the grave. Tuco then takes him to a mission run by his brother, where Blondie and Tuco ally to find the gold together.
After leaving the mission the two are captured by Union soldiers, because they are wearing Confederate uniforms from Bill Carson's coach, and they are taken to a Union prison camp. At the camp Tuco says his name is Bill Carson, Angel Eyes, disquised as a Sergeant, hears this and tortures Tuco for the location of the gold. Tuco reveales the name of the cemetery but says that only Blondie now the name of the grave. Angel Eyes then offers Blondie and partnership on finding the gold and Blondie agrees. Tuco who is on a train being taken to be hung, escapes by pushing the soldier he is chained to off and by cutting the chain with another trains wheels. Blondie, Angel Eyes and his gang travel to a town that is being evacuated and under heavy artillery fire. Blondie and Tuco meet up and kill all of Angel Eye's men but he escapes. The two come across a narrow bridge with Union forces on there side and Confederate forces on the side of the cemetery. Blondie and Tuco meet a drunk Union captain who tells them that both sides are under orders not to destroy the bridge. Blondie and Tuco then decide to the destroy the bridge and while wiring dynamite they Tuco tell Blondie the name of the cemetery and Blondie tell him the name on the grave is Arch Stanton. When they destroy the bridge the armies clear out the next morning and the two continue there journey to the cemetery. Along the way Blondie stops to help a dying Confederate soldier and Tuco races ahead on a horse he finds. When he reaches the cemetery, he runs around until he finds the Arch Stanton's grave. Blondie arrives and then Angel Eyes who orders them both to dig. Blondie reveales that he lied and that the gold is in another tomb. He writes the name on the bottom of a rock and a Mexican Standoff starts. The standoff ends when Blondie kills Angel Eyes and Tuco finds out his gun is empty. Tuco is then forced by Blondie to dig in the grave next to Stanton's marked unknown, there was nothing written on the rock. Tuco then digs up the gold but is forced by Blondie to stand on top of a grave with his neck in a noose. Blondie then rides off leaving Tuco on the grave with his share of the gold. Just before the grave breaks Blondie rides back and shoots the rope just like in the beginning of the film. Blondie then rides off again while Tuco calls him a, "Just a dirty son of a bitch!"
　
ReviewAltogether its a great movie even through its over two and a half hours. The plot fits together well and is well written. Some times it's no easy to remember whose on whose side but other wise I understood the whole movie. It sorta reminds me of Apocalypse Now, how the protagonists are on a mission but are sidetracked by war. The characters in the film are likable and mostly made out of villians or anti-heros. Besides Bill Carson and a young dying soldier, the Confederacy is never really seen beside in battle scenes. The Union is protrayed as having good men and psychopaths. For example the soldier that tortures Tuco is a nasty son of a bitch, but the prison camp captain and the bridge captain are both shown as good men. The satire was one of the best parts of the film. For example Tuco shoots three bounty hunters in the beginning of the movie and one returns, without a arm, to kill Tuco. The bounty hunter finds Tuco in a bath tub and begins to talk about how he gonna kill Tuco. Tuco instead shoots him when he's in the tub and comments,"When you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk." There is a lot of symbolism in the film as well. For example, during the standoff between the three a wide shoot shows us the whole huge cemetery which symbolise death. The film has this very memberal music play almost every time someone dies and that's a lot cuz the body count is huge in this film. This ranks up with the best westerns, which include The Wild Bunch, Unforgiven and Bunch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in my opinion. My Rating System is handgun cartridges. Lowest to highest .22LR, .9mm, .40 S&W, .45 ACP and .357 Magnum. I give this film a .45 ACP.Sergio Leone really knew what he was doing when he directed this film, he also helped write it. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach as a trio of outlaws trying to find some gold coins. On there journey they are stopped by many elements of the American Civil War and the Old West.