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unusual facts about The Good, the Bad


Manchukuo

The 2008 South Korean western The Good, the Bad, the Weird is set in the desert wilderness of 1930s Manchuria.


A Fistful of Paintballs

HitFix critic Alan Sepinwall applauded the episode, saying "the new installment went for depth instead of breadth, focusing entirely on the style of the spaghetti Western and doing a very impressive job of it. The revamped opening credit sequence was gorgeous, the score sounded very much like Ennio Morricone's work on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the different showdowns had the requisite number of close-ups, etc."

A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe

His work here is very similar to his score for My Name is Nobody, with an upbeat pop tune serving as the main theme, an adaptation of a classical song (in this case Für Elise) combined with the wailing from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly used for the stagecoach chase, and a sentimental, lyrical theme for the three protagonists.

Alberto Grimaldi

He is credited with producing some of the most famous films in film history including For a Few Dollars More in 1965, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966, Last Tango in Paris in 1972 and Gangs of New York in 2002.

Andersonville National Historic Site

This camp is briefly mentioned in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) uses it as an excuse to rule his camp with iron fist.

Battle of Glorieta Pass

The 1966 Sergio Leone film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly refers obliquely to the battle, setting one scene during the post-battle retreat of Sibley's men.

Before the Poison

Another version of the song, with different lyrics on the verses, was later released as "Green Fields" on his unnamed band's 2007 album, The Good, the Bad and the Queen.

Cad Bane

Lucas took inspiration from western film actors such as Lee Van Cleef's portrayal of Angel Eyes in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and of Colonel Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More while Corey Burton uses Peter Lorre's voice as inspiration.

Definitely Maybe

A picture of Rodney Marsh (footballer) can be seen on the cover and a television showing a scene from the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with actors Eli Wallach and Antonio Casale.

Duke Nukem: Time to Kill

Aside from Tomb Raider, the game references The Evil Dead, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Back to the Future series and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Frankee

Her first album, The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, included contributions from Makeba Riddick (who later co-wrote five songs on Beyoncé Knowles' B'Day album) and Andre Deyo (who co-wrote "Jenny from the Block"), with production by The Trackmasters and Rich Harrison.

GStreamer

Since version 0.10, the plug-ins come grouped into three sets (named after the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly),

Hannah Peel

Whilst on tour promoting 'The Broken Wave' by supporting another Full Time hobby act Erland and the Carnival, Peel became good friends with the band and a collaboration between herself, Gawain Erland Cooper and Simon Tong (The Verve, Blur, Gorillaz, The Good, the Bad & the Queen) resulted in a new band The Magnetic North.

Holding This Moment

"Both Guns Blazing" contains samples from the films The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Se7en and Unforgiven.

Kingdom of Doom

"Kingdom of Doom" is a song by the supposedly unnamed British alternative rock supergroup made up of Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong and Tony Allen and is the fourth track on their 2007 album The Good, the Bad and the Queen (see 2007 in British music).

Luigi Pistilli

He appeared in many spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (as the priest brother of Eli Wallach's character Tuco) and in For a Few Dollars More (1965) as the cunning second-in-command Groggy (his first credited film role).

New Mexico Campaign

The campaign is part of the backdrop for the 1966 motion picture The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Order of Our Lady of the Thistle

The Order of Our Lady of the Thistle was founded in January 1370 in Moulins, by Louis II "the Good", Duke of Bourbon « in the honour of God and the Immaculated Virgin», at the occasion of his mariage with Anne of Auvergne, Heiress Countess of Forez, daughter of Beraud II, Dauphin of Auvergne and Jeanne of Forez; niece of John, Count of Forez.

Remington Model 1858

Remington percussion revolvers and conversions have appeared in notable movie scenes in films such as The Big Trail, Pale Rider, Gone with the Wind, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as early episodes of Bonanza.

Sandro Scarchilli

Sandro however was never as famous as his brother Claudio Scarchilli who appeared in over twenty different films and also appeared in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966,

Side grip

The side grip has been portrayed in movies since at least the 1960s, notably in the westerns One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

Storm Rider

Storm Rider (Il Grande duello, 1972), aka The Grand Duel and The Big Showdown is a Spaghetti Western directed by Giancarlo Santi, who had previously worked as Sergio Leone's assistant director on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West.

The Files: The Greatest Hits

"El Bueno, El Malo, y el Feo" (In English, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly") features Eddie Dee and Tego Calderón personifying "The Good", "The Bad" and "The Ugly" respectively.

The Good-Natur'd Man

Garrick rejected The Good-Natur'd Man, possibly because the story is an antidote of False Delicasy.

The Good, the Sad and the Drugly

When she discovers online reports about soap for drinks instead of water, a world war over a tiny drop of oil, a parking lot yet to be filled forever and the last polar bear committing suicide by hanging himself, she is filled with anxiety and depression and terrifies her classmates with her dark visions of the oceans rising from global warming, turning humanity and the lowlands into a desert and darkness falling upon Nineveh.


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A Fistful Of...4-Skins

Following the breakup of the line-up that recorded the band's previous album, The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins, Hoxton Tom McCourt had assembled a new line-up (the fourth overall) including former The Last Resort singer Roi Pearce, and future Skrewdriver guitarist, Paul Swain.

Kurt Loder

In 2011, St. Martin's Press published Loder's The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews, which collected his film reviews from MTV.com and Reason.com.

Phillip Martin III

In 1994, they released The Good, the Bad, the Mafia, which has sold 300,000 units to date and peaked at #64 on Billboard's album charts.

Pythagorean tuning

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (1997), "The good, the bad and the boring", Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music.

Roger Rogerson

He also became an entertainer, telling stories of his police activities in a spoken-word stage show called The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, with former Australian footballers Warwick Capper and Mark "Jacko" Jackson.

Rubber Rodeo

However, the group also recorded takes on country and western classics such as Ennio Morricone's "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and the Patsy Cline standard "Walkin' After Midnight".

The Good The Bad

Upon seeing them for first time, Wayne Kramer described The Good The Bad as "an incredible new band".

Warmbat

Featured in the Australian documentary The Good, the Bad and the UGG Boot, Warmbat competes with Deckers Outdoor Corporation, which owns the trademark "UGG" in the US.

Waterhole

Waterhole No. 3, a 1967 Western comedy film, considered to be a comic remake of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly