Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Sergio Leone's Classic

The Italian spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Leone called 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) was released in 1966 and starred Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach.
Clint Eastwood played 'the man with no name'. In the movie, he obtains his trademark poncho from a dying soldier near the end of the film. He wears his poncho in all three of the Leone directed Spaghetti Westerns. The other two movies are called 'For a Fistful of Dollars' and 'For a Few Dollars More'.Although he is the 'man with no name', he is nicknamed Blondie by Tuco several times throughout the picture.