the good the bad and the ugly - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) is a 1966 Italian spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach. The screenplay was by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Leone, from a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and Ennio Morricone composed the film score. The film was the third and final entry in Leone's popular Man with No Name trilogy, following A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965).