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...Eastwood, in a reprisal role from A Fistful of Dollars, plays the Good: a gruff silent type with at least a shred of principle. Eli Wallach plays the Bad, a cruel devil named Angel Eyes who’ll do anything to get his hands on the gold. Finally, Tuco is a wild-eyed bandito who’s Ugly any way you look at it.  With the trio—and the Civil War—the action approaches today’s Hollywood extravagance. Leone weaves a rich narrative tapestry together, combining gunfighting thrills, a witty...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Happening :: Listings for the Week of August 1-August 7 | 8/1/2003 | See Source »

...third western, Leone went out and hired his first big-time actor, Eli Wallach. He plays Tuco, a Mexican gunman with so many prices on his head that he cashes them in by traveling from town to town with his partner Joe (Eastwood), who turns him in for the bounty money, then springs him at the last moment by shooting the rope with which Tuco is being hanged. When Joe's aim begins to deteriorate, so does the partnership, but the two stick together long enough to set out in pursuit of $200,000 worth of stolen gold hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Many Harvard players were impressive notably the first line of Jack Tuco, Dick Delaney, and Baldassari and defeneman Chris Gurry, but no one stopped sheehy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Line Whipe Yardling Hockey | 1/12/1967 | See Source »

...father of two little girls, "Tuco" (Glowworm) Paz plays the guitar, dances to flamenco tunes, likes bebop, reads Faulkner and Dos Passes. He is the author of a prizewinning book of short stories (The Abyss), detective yarns, unpublished poetry, three volumes on Argentine government and law, and some of President Perón's most flowery speeches. During the recent Washington conference of Foreign Ministers, Paz managed to make quite a few hemispheric friends without alienating Perón. Despite the bruising that capital correspondents gave him over the La Prensa issue, he took such a shine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Switch | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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