The 1966 film "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is a Western film about a treasure hunt in the American West during the Civil War. It is 1862 and three men, Blondie (Clint Eastwood), Tuco (Eli Wallach), and Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), are all looking for $200,000 in gold coins which were buried by Confederate soldiers somewhere in the American Southwest. The three men are the "good, bad, and the ugly" of the title, they have known each other for a long time, and all have good reasons for not trusting each other. At one point open bags of gold coins are seen.

The film opens with a picture of a small Western town.

Tuco and Blondie are partners in a confidence.

The men split the money from their scheme.

Blondie then severs the partnership and the men split up. Tuco enters a town and visits a used gun shop.

Tuco, a bandit, steals a gun, and then goes to see Blondie.

Tuco avenges himself by holding Blondie at gunpoint but an artillery shell hits the building allowing Blondie to escape. The two men meet again and encounter a Confederate wagon.

All but one of the soldiers in the wagon are dead and the dying soldier tells Tuco that they buried of $200,000 in gold coin in a grave at the Sad Hill Cemetery. Tuco leaves to get the man some water, and the soldier then tells Blondie the name on the grave marker. The men steal two Confederate uniforms and the wagon.

The two "Confederates" are captured by Union soldiers and taken to a Prisoner of War camp. The third man looking for the treasure, Angel Eyes, is now in the Union Army as a sergeant.

Angel Eyes uses harsh methods to get the treasure location out of Tuco. There are very few women in the film but scene with a woman follows.

Angel Eyes talks to Blondie but realizes that his methods would not work on him. Tuco manages to escape and Blondie is let go with Angel Eyes now following him. In one town Blondie finds a friend.

This friendship breaks up and Blondie is back with Tuco who has a map to the location of the cemetery.

The two men, now wearing civilian clothes encounter Union soldiers and join then in a battle with Confederates. The two armies are fighting over a strategic bridge over a river.

The cemetery is on the Confederate side of the river and Blondie and Tuco decide that the way to get the soldiers to leave is to blow up the bridge with explosives, which they do.

The soldiers leave and the pair head separately for the cemetary. Tuco arrives first.

Tuco knows he needs the name on the grave to find the treasure. Blondie shows up and gives Tuco a name, the two men find the marker, and start digging. Unfortunately Angel Eyes then appears with a gun. The men find a body but no gold and Blondie uses a trick to back away from the other two. The three end up in a large circle.

Blondie shoots Angel Eyes who conveniently falls into an open grave. Blondie then tells Tuco he gave him the wrong grave name and now they head for the correct grave and start digging.

A bag splits open revealing gold coins.

Another look at the goods.

Yet another look at the goods. The gold coins are obviously motion picture prop coins of various sizes.

The men find eight bags of money in total. Blondie arranges for Tuco to look at the money from different viewpoint.

Blondie takes four of the bags leaving the other four bags for Tuco. With Tuco standing on a grave marker, Blondie mounts his horse.

Clint Eastwood as Blondie (The Man with No Name)
Eli Wallach as Tuco (Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez)
Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes
Antonio Casale as Jackson/Bill Carson
Al Mulock as Elam, a one-armed bounty hunter
Aldo Giuffre as alcoholic Union Captain Clinton
Luigi Pistilli as Father Pablo Ramirez
Director: Sergio Leone
Writers: Sergio Leone, Luciano Vincenzoni, Age & Scarpelli