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Old September 29th, 2005 #38
N.B. Forrest
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I agree with Gott's astute observations about The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: it goes on too long; the Civil War scenes are shit, etc. I also think Wallach was fantastic as the shifty-eyed cucaracha Tuco; that scene where he tries to get Blondie to spill the beans about the gold by telling him he's going to die is hilarious. That is one talented jewboy, just like another great character actor, Edward G. Robinson.

As long as TGTBTU is, I find Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West absolutely interminable: Bronson is good as the harmonica-playing "hero", though - and that old pink Henry Fonda, with his blank blue eyes, was excellent as the villain. I never really liked him in anything else (except in the great Fort Apache); with that "What's that smell?" expression he habitually wore, he always seemed to me to have a smugness about him.