There’s a famous song about riding through the desert on a horse with no name. Well, imagine the guy riding the horse also doesn’t have a name. Crazy, right? Well, that’s the sort of movie we’re dealing with. It’s got dust and duels and the greatest score ever committed to film. It makes every other Western look like Woody’s Roundup.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly follows three ruthless men searching for a buried fortune during the chaos of the American Civil War. It follows Blondie, “the Good” (wait a second, is this Wicked?); Tuco, a fast-talking outlaw known as “the Ugly”; and the cold-blooded Angel Eyes, “the Bad.” The paths of the three cross while on the hunt and, well, things get complicated, ending in one of cinema’s most famous final showdowns, where a dusty cemetery, three men, and Ennio Morricone’s score somehow turn standing still into the most tense thing imaginable. The movie is streaming now, for free, on Fawesome.
The cast includes Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven) as Blondie, Lee Van Cleef (For a Few Dollars More) as Angel Eyes, Eli Wallach (The Magnificent Seven) as Tuco, Aldo Giuffrè (The Four Days of Naples) as Captain Clinton, and Luigi Pistilli (A Bay of Blood) as Father Pablo Ramirez.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
Yellowstone
Landman
Tulsa King
Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
Yellowstone
Landman
Tulsa King
Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Was ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ a Success?
The movie cannot be described as anything other than a sensation across the world. According to reports, the movie cost around $1.2 million to produce, going on to gross more than $38 million worldwide, which makes it one of the most successful spaghetti Westerns ever made. Critically, though, it wasn’t a smash hit straight out of the gate, interestingly enough. The earliest reviews of the movie looked down their noses at it, mainly because spaghetti Westerns were treated like the ugly stepchild at that point in time. Obviously, since then, it’s since been fully reappraised as a classic. It currently holds a 97% critics score and 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Those 3% need their eyes and ears checked. Legacy-wise, it’s basically untouchable. You ask for the best Westerns ever made, you’ll hear those seven words.
Directed by Sergio Leone,The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is streaming for free now on Fawesome.
