Tag: Ugly
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For a Brief Moment, Clint Eastwood Could Have Been Batman
Clint Eastwood has played more iconic characters than nearly any other actor in film history. While his role as the enigmatic “Man With No Name” in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is perhaps his most iconic, Eastwood also directed himself in…
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‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’s Production Was an Explosive Mess
If one were to make a list of the best Westerns of all time, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly would be at the top. The Spaghetti Western, the third in director Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, finds three men competing against one another to find a buried stash of Confederate gold. Clint Eastwood, aka…
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This Clint Eastwood Movie Has the Best Saloon in Any Western
Even those with little familiarity (or interest) in the Western genre have some basic knowledge of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The iconic Western epic from Sergio Leone doesn’t just stand as one of the greatest Westerns ever, but one of the best movies of all-time. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…
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9 Best Western TV Miniseries of All Time, Ranked
Since the early days of film, Westerns have been a popular genre among audiences, further established by legendary films like the John Ford classic, The Searchers and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, before the arrival of memorable television series including The Rifleman, Wagon Train, and How the West Was Won. Today, the classic…
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Clint Eastwood’s 10 Most Popular Movies, According to Letterboxd
Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker, Clint Eastwood, has been one of Hollywood’s top leading men since the 1960s starring in classics such as Hang ‘Em High, Dirty Harry and Escape from Alcatraz. Eastwood got his first big break on the Old West series, Rawhide and after the success of Italian Spaghetti Westerns like The Good, the…
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How The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Nearly Killed One Of Its Stars
Sergio Leone’s “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” is a landmark Western film, and like any classic piece of cinema with a meticulous director, the quintessential spaghetti Western had its fair share of on-set issues (see: “Apocalypse Now“). Eli Wallach, who played the titular “Ugly” character Tuco Ramirez, shared some of the most dramatic…
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India’s Anurag Kashyap and Partners Dissolve Phantom Films
Celebrated Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap (“Gangs of Wasseypur”) and his partners the directors and producers Vikramaditya Motwane Vikas Bahl and producer Madhu Mantena have dissolved their seven-year partnership at Phantom Films.Phantom recently produced the series “Sacred Games” for Netflix, with Motwane as showrunner and also co-directing with Kashyap. Motwane was recently announced as showrunner for…