Clint Eastwood as Blondie ("The Good"), Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes ("The Bad"), and Eli Wallach as Tuco ("The Ugly").

Three gunslingers hunt for a buried cache of $200,000 in Confederate gold amid the chaos of the American Civil War.

It is a dead ringer – down to the triangular arrangement of the characters – for the roaring climax to Leone's gritty masterpiece.