Actually it's 40% the director's credit cause he knew whereto focus... But yeah Lee is probably the best with his eyes especially in the final scene of the good, bad ugly
when lee van cleef lights a match on his back , no words needed to describe that scene , it speaks for it self . van cleef was perfect for playing bad guys .
These Clint Eastwood movies always bring me back to a better time. 30yrs ago or so. Thanksgiving. Worked 2nd shift. Wednesday before we'd go to the bar after work. Then Thanksgiving and fill up on turkey and watch football. Then Friday up way early and I'm not sure what station air a Clint Eastwood marathon. Idk why I'm sharing this but I did.
check out "Rawhide"! super effing great show! funny and exciting! i'm 64. i'm finally watching them! highly recommended! Clint was 25 when he started these! you can see why Sergio Leone hired him to do his shows!
I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath in late ‘70’s. There was BBC1 (darts and cricket), BBC2 (cricket and darts), and ITV which had spaghetti westerns and Benny Hill. Trinity and the beans scene and Lee Van, the best.
Colonel Mortimer is THE iconic bounty hunter role personified, even Lucky Luke imitated the character for its own. Lee's performance set the gold standard.
Hard to believe, but Lee Van Cleef had pretty much given up on his Hollywood career and retired from acting, until by sheer luck Sergio Leone came across his photo in a casting directory and demanded that an actor with a hawkish face like his should be in his Clint Eastwood movie.
Lee Van Cleef dressed exactly like one of his childhood heroes in two movies “Spaghetti Westerns’ Wyatt Earp. Lee’s costume is a perfect copy of the famous outfit worn by Wyatt Earp in 1881 in Tombstone Arizona. Lee provided his own clothes as did Clint Eastwood. Lee even used a 12 inch barrel Colt like the one used by Marshall Earp. The Hat, Coat, Shirt, Vest, Tie with Tie pin, Boots, Guns every detail is a Tribute to the most famous Lawman-Marshall in American history. John Wayne often said he used Wyatt Earp as his main character influences. Every time he walked onto the stage set he pretended to be Marshall Earp. Clint Eastwood made his character harry Callahan “Dirty Harry” after Marshall Wyatt Earp. The biggest influence on many western movies and actors has been the most famous lawman Wyatt Earp
THE Lee Van was just too damn cool in this. A classy, morally-ambiguous, dangerous protagonist. Always will find his presence irreplaceable, just like Richard Boone in Big Jake.
Definitely Lee Van Cleef's greatest role- he made a huge contribution to FAFDM. His character, Colonel Mortimer was uber cool-definitely on a par with Clint's character. Lee's portrayal of the charismatic, courageous Mortimer was outstanding. The zenith of LVC's acting career.
Pena que a vida e curta demais.Esse ator magnifico se foi mais deixou belo exemplo.Desde o filme do Zorro mostrou que era dos bons.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
At around age thirty I watched this film for umpteenth time. It came to me as a funny shock to realize that I had subconsciously copied Lee van Cleef's style and gestures - clothing, way of walking and some other things. This role and Col. Mortimer are the tops of acting art.
I watched this movie as a kid in a holiday cinema without no nothing about it. It is one movie that left a hell of an impression on' me growing up!! Brilliant score and LVC being such a cool ass' as sidekick to Clint' who was larger than life!!!
As a kid I always wondered about those strike-anywhere-matches. Invented in 1826 in London so they would have been common in US by the historical time this is set
Lee Van Cleef's characters always reminded me of an old war vet that just had that look about him that spelled danger. At first the bad guys would think they had the upper hand but after looking him in the eyes could sense something about this guy, something that said, "This isn't your average, every day joe schmo."
Angel eyes was his nickname, my grandfather served the civil war under John Duff 33rd confederate army, and was featured on video during that era. A lot of ups-and-downs but we managed. U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865
Also the best music score of the trilogy. G,B and the U was a classic score because it was unusual, but F a F D M was masterwork composing, pure intense soul.
Because spaghetti westerns weren't classics. Hollywood was way over saturated with westerns, so low budget Italian versions of "westerns" were produced (churned out) by foreign directors to cash in on what was left of the "void".
I would like to think that it's because people realise that everything came together just right on the original and nobody will ever be able to do it better
For me it's "Death Rides A Horse" as Ryan! Great cast. Awesome music. Nice plot and overall story. My all-time favorite actor and spaghetti western! (Best Of The Bad)....Thanks:
What's funny that for our trip from North Carolina to West National Parks next summer, me and my wife decided to make a stop at Tucumcari overnight 🙂 Didn't even know until I saw this now.
It always felt weird to me how Cleef played a protagonist For a few dollars more but an antagonist The good, the bad and the ugly. He did a great job in both, but when I watched them for the first time back to back I felt a sort of moral whiplash.
Lee Van Cleef could do more with his eyes than most actors can do with their whole body.
The guy has natural charisma and his acting geniune. New gen could learn a thing from two from him.
Actually it's 40% the director's credit cause he knew whereto focus... But yeah Lee is probably the best with his eyes especially in the final scene of the good, bad ugly
I'm 36 but when I grow up, I wanna be just like Lee.
But I wanna be like Lee Van Cleef; ya know I wanna be like Lee
I mean who Doesn’t?!😎🤠
But whatever happened to Lee Van Cleef? Whatever happened to him?
I'm 69 and still waiting to grow up!
I wanted to be Vincent Price. Instead I'm Peter Lorre.
The bar scene with Klause Kinski is one of the greatest scenes ever filmed. No dialogue, just amazing acting and incredible tension.
😂 when he strikes that match 😂
Agreed
his cheek twitching the entire time. legendary
Well, well, well.
when lee van cleef lights a match on his back , no words needed to describe that scene , it speaks for it self . van cleef was perfect for playing bad guys .
These Clint Eastwood movies always bring me back to a better time. 30yrs ago or so. Thanksgiving. Worked 2nd shift. Wednesday before we'd go to the bar after work. Then Thanksgiving and fill up on turkey and watch football. Then Friday up way early and I'm not sure what station air a Clint Eastwood marathon. Idk why I'm sharing this but I did.
I’m from England and we love these movies, they’re older now but they can’t make movies like this anymore.
BACK IN MA DAYS
Your NOT alone brother..It was Truly a MUCH Nicer time 😊God Bless..
check out "Rawhide"! super effing great show! funny and exciting! i'm 64. i'm finally watching them! highly recommended! Clint was 25 when he started these! you can see why Sergio Leone hired him to do his shows!
I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath in late ‘70’s. There was BBC1 (darts and cricket), BBC2 (cricket and darts), and ITV which had spaghetti westerns and Benny Hill. Trinity and the beans scene and Lee Van, the best.
Absolutely in the top five best westerns ever made.
Up there with Fistful of Dollars, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Unforgiven and Good Bad and the Ugly.
@@jrobbin24 Oh wow totally agree my good fellow - 'The Outlaw Josie Wales' never gets old for me. Just love that movie.
They know your bad when the music follows you around.
Colonel Mortimer is THE iconic bounty hunter role personified, even Lucky Luke imitated the character for its own. Lee's performance set the gold standard.
Hooo OUI !
Phil Defer
Yes indeed 👍
@@yvc9 Elliot Belt rather, Phil Defer was made after Jack Palance
@@adriandreamwalker1027 truemy mistake
I find it fascinating that the Spaghetti Westerns made by Itailians are still among the very best Westerns ever made.
Rome being the capitol of italy
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He made people look gritty, sweaty, ugly, and rough. More true to life. Not to mention the stories and music. Ennio was half the greatness.
Angel eyes!
I’m missing Tuco 😂
Send angel eyes 👀 to the college campuses 😮😢
@@Nttmf Tuco Benidicto Pacifico Wan Maria Ramerez
In this case he is Crnl Douglas Mortimer..
@@alfeinstein4168..Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez.. (funny that he got a name of a priest)
Hard to believe, but Lee Van Cleef had pretty much given up on his Hollywood career and retired from acting, until by sheer luck Sergio Leone came across his photo in a casting directory and demanded that an actor with a hawkish face like his should be in his Clint Eastwood movie.
Yes. Meerster Cleef had the look of er'a piratical adventurer. Great actor & made for the movie.
Lee was great!
Best move they could have done...
this man best of the best of the best charisma
Sadri alışık her yerde. Benim entelektüel arkadaşım.
Hey, what an actor! He made it feel real, non of the BS today.
Lee played sort of the wiser, father figure role to Eastwood in For a few Dollars More...... but in reality, he was only 5 years older than Eastwood
this is Lee Van Cleef he could have been a father 5
But he looked a bit old
COLDEST MF in the history of cinema
This film is considerably better than The good, the bad and the ugly in many ways. And that's a great film.
Lee Van Cleef dressed exactly like one of his childhood heroes in two movies “Spaghetti Westerns’ Wyatt Earp. Lee’s costume is a perfect copy of the famous outfit worn by Wyatt Earp in 1881 in Tombstone Arizona. Lee provided his own clothes as did Clint Eastwood. Lee even used a 12 inch barrel Colt like the one used by Marshall Earp. The Hat, Coat, Shirt, Vest, Tie with Tie pin, Boots, Guns every detail is a Tribute to the most famous Lawman-Marshall in American history.
John Wayne often said he used Wyatt Earp as his main character influences. Every time he walked onto the stage set he pretended to be Marshall Earp. Clint Eastwood made his character harry Callahan “Dirty Harry” after Marshall Wyatt Earp. The biggest influence on many western movies and actors has been the most famous lawman Wyatt Earp
One of the best trilogies of all time.
I love this man....
Such a great and underrated actor.
Lee van Cleef makes me weak in the knees. Whoa!
THE Lee Van was just too damn cool in this. A classy, morally-ambiguous, dangerous protagonist. Always will find his presence irreplaceable, just like Richard Boone in Big Jake.
This was the best! Just watched it other night on u-tube.
Great actor and Great sound track by the master Ennio Morricone hard to beat 10/10
The music sets these apart
Ennio Morricone the Master Wrote heaps of great scores look him up 😊
@@AdamKablar yup...big time
Definitely Lee Van Cleef's greatest role- he made a huge contribution to FAFDM. His character, Colonel Mortimer was uber cool-definitely on a par with Clint's character. Lee's portrayal of the charismatic, courageous Mortimer was outstanding. The zenith of LVC's acting career.
my childhood films. Happy memories.
One of the best..actors..in movies...
Pena que a vida e curta demais.Esse ator magnifico se foi mais deixou belo exemplo.Desde o filme do Zorro mostrou que era dos bons.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Good old days, he was excellent indeed, in all his movies.
The man who speak with his eyes
Makes me want to watch it again.
At around age thirty I watched this film for umpteenth time. It came to me as a funny shock to realize that I had subconsciously copied Lee van Cleef's style and gestures - clothing, way of walking and some other things. This role and Col. Mortimer are the tops of acting art.
I watched this movie as a kid in a holiday cinema without no nothing about it. It is one movie that left a hell of an impression on' me growing up!! Brilliant score and LVC being such a cool ass' as sidekick to Clint' who was larger than life!!!
My favorite movie ever and he's one of the many reasons.
I was a great fan of Lee as a teenager. I believe his best role was in Death Rides a Horse.
As a kid I always wondered about those strike-anywhere-matches. Invented in 1826 in London so they would have been common in US by the historical time this is set
Now we have "fail everytime junk lighters". No wonder my dad had drawers full of matches
Lee Van Cleef's characters always reminded me of an old war vet that just had that look about him that spelled danger. At first the bad guys would think they had the upper hand but after looking him in the eyes could sense something about this guy, something that said, "This isn't your average, every day joe schmo."
Scene indimenticabili !
Angel eyes was his nickname, my grandfather served the civil war under John Duff 33rd confederate army, and was featured on video during that era. A lot of ups-and-downs but we managed. U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865
Amazing SERGIO LEONE❤️🤍😘🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠
Also the best music score of the trilogy. G,B and the U was a classic score because it was unusual, but F a F D M was masterwork composing, pure intense soul.
Of all the stupid movie copies being done a dozen times over, WHY won't anyone do a remake of this classic? A Truly inspiring film.
Because spaghetti westerns weren't classics. Hollywood was way over saturated with westerns, so low budget Italian versions of "westerns" were
produced (churned out) by foreign directors to cash in on what was left of the "void".
@@clambroth1923 I don't care who made it.. it's still a classic :)
I would like to think that it's because people realise that everything came together just right on the original and nobody will ever be able to do it better
Remaking classic Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns?!
By ''current year'' Hollywood?!
NO NO NO NO NO, GOD NO!!
Do you really want to see some fat lesbians instead of Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef?
I remember being impressed that he judged the emergency stop so that his horse's wagon was in exactly the right position.
The pipe makes the character.
Oh NO! where's the ATF when you need em? That's a short barreled rifel! Oh My!
First guy firing at 2.5 bullets a minute was almost an automatic as well
Tucumcari, New Mexico in the USA just South of the Bay of Biscay in Northern Spain... Love these Spaghetti Westerns...
What a classic, man.
For me it's "Death Rides A Horse" as Ryan!
Great cast.
Awesome music.
Nice plot and overall story.
My all-time favorite actor and spaghetti western!
(Best Of The Bad)....Thanks:
LVC had that enigmatic look thats still hard to duplicate today. I think he'd have made an excellent James Bond villain.
😮😮 Dois excelentes atores vi muitos filmes com eles 👍🙌🙌🙌🙌
Original American Badass. Doing research for a D&D character
The fun thing is a lot of American and spaghetti westerns make great adventures for a game like D&D. You just adapt them to a fantasy setting.
This train will stop were ever Lee Van Cleef goes
What's funny that for our trip from North Carolina to West National Parks next summer, me and my wife decided to make a stop at Tucumcari overnight 🙂 Didn't even know until I saw this now.
My idol
O eterno Lee Van Cleff!
Best of the Bad
GREAT! Absolutely great recap......
Lee van Cleaf very cool
these movies were so different, and still are :O
They call me....Revolver Ocelot.
'Ojos de Angel' 😊😊😊😊
Best actors of the best films❤
I HAVE stopped in Tucumcari!
As cool as can be. Lee van cleef the icon.
I loved Sabata.
Legend of the Legend 😎
Regia del Gran Maestro Sergio Leone, creatore di un genere western che ha sorpreso molti in quel periodo
The man's features are very sharp, he always scared me.
1:09 that gave me nightmares when I imagined him as either Mortimer or Angel Eyes
Not only did Lee Van Cleef do westerns, he was also in to the martial arts. Hell of a guy, if you ask me. Lol.
Espetacular este filme
the bad sentenza mythic actor in a great movie nothing to say anymore
Em nome da Lei❤❤❤
I wanted to be Vincent Price. I turned out Peter Lorre.
Wow 😍 love antique
Angel Eyes when he wasn't The Bad... When, when he was the Very, Very Good.
Lee van Cleef is THE gunslinger.
the best bad guy
the best lee van
Bar 🍻 scene super
Lee was a badass!! Best of the Bad 🙌🏻🙌🏻
6:19 he felt the heart and soul inside him fall
I actually preferred this to The Good,The Bad & the Ugly. Great movie about revenge.
I always approach bounty posters in RDR Online just like Colonel Douglas Mortimer. My outfit even looks similar with the coat, tie, and vest.
Angel Eyes.
This is true. I always preferred Lee van Cleef as a protagonist.
Wonderful .
Lee van Cleef was an even better "Bad Good Guy" in this film than Clint Eastwood- and Eastwood was outstanding.
I see that Tuco's priest Brother from GB&U is one of the "Bad hombres" in the Bar scene ! )))
Excellent film. Sure, 'Good The Bad and The Ugly' is much more popular, and arguably the better piece...but this one's my favorite
BRAVO 👏
Awesome tribute to Lee Van Cleef. If you want to see him in a more "recent" movie, check out Escape From New York.
One of my favorite performance is an episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Grave"
Great actors, all of them have grown old, some have died, it makes me sad 😔🙏🙏🫶
Well, I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tahachapi to Tonopah...😅😅😅😊😊😊
I agree
Cad Bane right there boyos!
Great acting and visual effects
Somehow he reminds me of the Indian actor Danny Denzongpa. He has a very similar aura and presence. The resemblance is uncanny.
I quit smoking three years ago. I still miss it.
It always felt weird to me how Cleef played a protagonist For a few dollars more but an antagonist The good, the bad and the ugly. He did a great job in both, but when I watched them for the first time back to back I felt a sort of moral whiplash.