By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Director Sergio Leone leads Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef through the cruel, barren landscape in a chase for $200,000. The result is a vibrant, powerful and groundbreaking film that started a completely new style of western.