The review

It opened in Italy at the end of 1966 and in America later, so the crowd that made it a landmark mostly sat down in the next decade. The story is the same either way. Three men want a grave full of gold. One is less cruel than the others, and the title calls him good, which is a low bar the film has a wonderful time not raising. The Civil War is around them as a vast stupidity they exploit. The images are the reason it lasted. The images are not a conscience.

Boys find this film and come back with the whistle and the stare. The whistle and the stare are a pose of indifference, and indifference in this picture is how you get the gold. Adults can look at the craft and decline the pose. Do not put it on as the western a boy needs in order to grow up. The western a boy needs has a town that continues after the gunfight. This one has a grave and a punch line. Leave it, or watch it awake and take the whistle apart before anyone leaves the room.