As Tuco screams for mercy, Blondie severs the rope with a rifle shot, dropping Tuco face-first onto the gold. To ask that question was okay, but I don't feel it was asked as strongly as it was in " Encounter at Farpoint".

Both Eastwood and Van Cleef realized that the character of Tuco was close to Leone's heart, and the director and Wallach became good friends. In the original working script, Angel Eyes was named "Banjo", but is referred to as "Sentenza" (meaning "Sentence" or "Judgement") in the Italian version. The coverage of the white chocolate was not even, and was speckled with flecks of milk chocolate which may have come from other items in the bag.I will try to confirm it later today, but have in mind that this topic spans over several stories (including, but not limited to, "paleface" mini series) so it will take me some time. Hearing the drill firing repeatedly, La Forge and Bensen come to the rescue but find the door is sealed again. The 'Q' in that one was, 'Do I recognize that there could be other life forms than the kind of life I'm used to? The almonds didn't have much in the way of a sheen but I think they were rejected as there were slight etches in each of them. The South Korean western movie The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) is inspired by the film, with much of its plot and character elements borrowed from Leone's film.

Like TOS: " The Devil in the Dark", this episode also has people with good intentions unwittingly killing and being attacked by creatures that wish to continue to exist. In popular culture, the American new wave group Wall of Voodoo performed a medley of Ennio Morricone's movie themes, including the theme for this movie. The film was the third collaboration between Leone and Clint Eastwood, and the second with Lee Van Cleef.

The main theme, also titled " The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", was a hit in 1968 with the soundtrack album on the charts for more than a year, [62] reaching No. He leaves, and now Troi and Yar make it clear he suspected the truth but did not intend to commit murder.