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Clint Eastwood's third and final collaboration with spaghetti-Western maestro Sergio Leone brings The Man With No Name trilogy to a baroque close. Everything here is epic: Clint's poncho and squint; Ennio Morricone's score; and the film's three-hour running time. Leone wasn't easily restrained, and after the success of A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, he was given a free hand to make this three-way hunt for Civil War gold as bloody and mythic as he wanted. And thank goodness for that. With the snake-eyed Lee Van Cleef as ''The Bad'' and the fabulous Eli Wallach as ''The Ugly.''
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15 Must-See Westerns
With ''3:10 to Yuma'' riding into town next week, it's a good time to honor the best of the West -- from Clint Eastwood in ''The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'' to John Wayne in ''The Searchers'' to Gary Cooper in ''High Noon''
| Sep 03, 2007
Chris Nashawaty
Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column
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