Pocket Cinephile Western Essentials - #6. Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly), Sergio Leone, 1966

Leone's wildly popular film is highly stylized, utterly sprawling, and nothing if not indelible. Many of the film's masterstrokes, such as the director's hard cut close ups and Ennio Morricone's unforgettable theme, have become familiar to the point of parody, which says something of the impact and effect of this nearly 3 hour, entirely dubbed masterpiece.