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In 1966, after A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, came The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: the last in the Dollars trilogy, which overcame initial critical scepticism to gross more than £38m at the global box office, launch Clint Eastwood to stardom and become forever known as "the definitive spaghetti Western". Eastwood plays "the Good", with Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad" and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly" - three gunslingers on the trail of a fortune in a buried cache of gold, with the chaos and violence of the American Civil War as a backdrop.

Leone's film is a treat in all sorts of ways, but two ways in particular make it ideally suited to a viewing at Phenomena, with its huge screen and exquisite sound system. Those ways are director of photography Tonino Delli Colli's lavish cinematography, and an outstanding score by Ennio Morricone, whose original compositions for the film include gunfire, whistling, and yodelling, plus one of the most truly iconic main themes in cinema history.