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Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Original title)The Magnificent Vagabonds (Working title)Le Bon, le brute et le truand (Alternative title)The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Alternative title)El Bueno, el feo y el mal (Alternative title)
Date: 1966 (Copyright)

Country: Italy

Director: Sergio Leone

Synopsis: Set during the American Civil War. Western of the fight of three adventurers for treasure hidden in a cemetery and the effect of the hunt on their respective characters.

Genre:
Spaghetti western

Subjects:
Treasures, Cemeteries, American Civil War (1861-1865), Bounty hunters, Bridges, Explosions
Releases
Date: 23 December 1966Country: ItalyRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 177 mins Length: 4840 Metres

Credits (51)
Production Company: P.E.A. - Produzioni Europee Associate, Producer: Alberto Grimaldi, Production Manager: Fernando Cinquini, Production Supervisor: Aldo Pomilia, Production Assistant: Carlo Bartolini, Production Assistant: Federico Tofi, Production Secretary: Antonio Palombi, Luigi Corbo, Assistant Director: Giancarlo Santi, Assistant Director: Fabrizio Gianni, Script Supervisor: Serena Canevari, Screenplay: Age, Screenplay: Scarpelli, Screenplay: Luciano Vincenzoni, Screenplay: Sergio Leone, [Screenplay]: Sergio Donati, English Version [Adaptation]: Mickey Knox, Story: Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone, Director of Photography: Tonino Delli Colli, Camera Operator: Franco Di Giacomo, Assistant Cameraman: Sergio Salvati, Special Effects: Eros Baciucchi, Editor: Nino Baragli, Editor: Eugenio Alabiso, Sets/Costumes: Carlo Simi, Assistant Art Director: Carlo Leva, Make-up: Rino Carboni, Hairdresser: Rino Todero, Titles: Lardani, Music: Ennio Morricone, Choir: Cantori Moderni di Alessandro Alessandroni, [Soloist]: Bruno Battisti D'amario, [Soloist]: E. Wolf Ferrari, [Soloist]: I. Cammarota, [Soloist]: Fred Catania, [Soloist]: Michele Lacerenza, [Soloist]: E. Samale, [Soloist]: Franco De Gemini, F. Traverso, [Whistler/Vocals]: Alessandro Alessandroni, [Vocals]: E. Gioieni, [Vocals]: F. Cosacchi, [Vocals]: G. Spagnolo, Edda Dell'orso, Music Director: Bruno Nicolai, Music Recording: Giuseppe Mastroianni, Sound Engineer: Elio Pacella, Vittorio De Sisti, [Mixer]: Fausto Ancillai
Cast (27)
Clint Eastwood ('Blondie' [the good], IT: Joe), Lee Van Cleef ('Angel Eyes' [the bad], IT: Sentenza), Aldo Giuffrè (drunk Confederate officer), Luigi Pistilli (Father Pablo Ramirez), Rada Rassimov (Maria, the prostitute), Enzo Petito (gunseller), Claudio Scarchilli (Mexican peon), John Bartho (the sheriff), Livio Lorenzon (Baker, old man in bed), Antonio Casale (Jackson, one-eyed man), Sandro Scarchilli (Mexican peon), Benito Stefanelli (member of Angel Eyes' gang), Angelo Novi (a monk), Antonio Casas (Mexican father), Aldo Sambrell (member of Angel Eyes' gang), Al Mulloch (one-armed bounty hunter), Sergio Mendizábal (blonde bounty hunter), Molino Rocho (Union officer in charge of prison camp), Lorenzo Robledo (Jeff, member of Angel Eyes' gang), Mario Brega (Corporal Wallace), Eli Wallach (Tuco Ramirez [the ugly]), Chelo Alonso ([Mexican mother]), Francisco Braña ([bounty hunter 2]), Antonio Padilla Ruiz ([Mexican boy]), Simon Prescott ([voice of Sentenza, 2003 rerelease]), Silvana Bacci ([Joe's girl in Socorro/restored version]), Ricardo Palacios ([bartender in Socorro/restored version])