(Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Sergio Leone, Italy/Spain/West Germany 1966, 179 min., DCP)
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach are the title triumvirate: double-crossing rivals in a Civil War-era odyssey for a treasure of gold. One of the most entertaining (and violent) Western epics ever conceived, Leone’s final chapter in his “Dollars” trilogy has been magnificently restored to its original Italian running time. Wallach and Eastwood returned to dub previously unrecorded dialogue from the Italian sequences. Remastered in stereo, Ennio Morricone’s glorious score sounds more magnificent than ever.
Introduction by Elisabetta DAmanda, Principal Lecturer, Rochester Institute of Technology