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Sometimes imitation is better than flattery.Sergio Leone made a western as good as anything Ford and John Wayne ever made.Its a real love story to the old west were men and emotions were bigger than the land they saw before them.When they say "they don't make em like this anymore"its this sort of film "they"are talking about.Oh and the music is BETTER than any western soundtrack except perhaps The Magnificent 7.
Anyway the cast has 3 main characters who are the movie.Without them,there is no bigger than life characterizations. Clint Eastwood as Blondie launched a movie career.Lee Van Cleef as Sentenza / Angel Eyes is at his best.Eli Wallach as Tuco is however my favorite.He also played a Mexican bandit in the classic 1960 Magnificent 7 and does it again 6 years later.Think about it.A jewish boy from the Bronx.Can he act or can he act !!!!
The story is simple enough as the IMDB summary below outlines but there is also a scene with no relevance to the movies plot but all the relevance in the world to US history depicting a worthless wasteful battle for a bridge in the Civil war.Blondie says "Never have so many men been wasted so badly."For history buffs that war remains the biggest loss of life of combatants this country has ever had ,being both sides were us.Sergio is also reminding us,20 short years after WW11 that maybe we finally got it right?Released in 1966 it runs a little long at 161 minutes which is why I took 1/2 star off.
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
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