While it has been nearly sixty years since The Good, The Bad & The Ugly was originally released, there are many good reasons that the movie is still considered the definitive Western 57 years later. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly saw director Sergio Leone collaborate with star Clint Eastwood in the third and final movie of the Dollars Trilogy. The series began with 1964’s A Fistful of Dollars and continued with 1965’s For A Few Dollars More, both of which imbued the standard Western formula with a more cartoony, playful style than viewers expected. Both movies also added a level of grit to comparatively clean-cut Hollywood Westerns.

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