«The Good, the Bad and the Ugly» (1966), directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as the taciturn gunslinger known as «the Man with No Name,» is widely regarded as the high point of the Spaghetti Western genre and one of the most influential action films ever made. Eastwood had already built his reputation in the genre through Leone’s earlier «Dollars Trilogy» films, all reaching Soviet and post-Soviet audiences chiefly through the pirated VHS tapes that flooded video rental clubs after the USSR’s collapse — alongside newer American action stars like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Van Damme, who tended to dominate the shelves and the era’s popular consciousness far more thoroughly than a 1966 Western did.
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
