Leone famously used tight shots on actors' eyes to build unbearable tension.
A fast-talking, chaotic Mexican bandit played by Eli Wallach.
Homaged in countless films, TV shows, and video games like Red Dead Redemption . Timelessness: It proved that genre films could be high art.
A ruthless, cold-blooded mercenary played by Lee Van Cleef.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly remains a flawless triumph of style and substance.
He contrasted those close-ups with massive, sweeping shots of the desert.
A stoic, calculating bounty hunter played by Clint Eastwood.
The film follows three drastically different men during the American Civil War. They are all searching for a buried fortune of Confederate gold.