The, Good, the Bad and the Ugly on UK TV Tonight!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

As the climax to the recent season of Serge Leone and Clint Eastwood's 'spaghetti westerns' (though they were filmed in Spain) Channel 5 UK are showing 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' at 9 p.m tonight.

As most of you probably know, this was partly the Genesis for the Dark Tower.

Mescaline optional (I must be getting old, I think I'll just have popcorn tonight!).

Long days and pleasant nights

[Spideyman]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is my favorite western. Every time I take the Dark Tower journey again, I hear the theme music playing in my head.

[hossenpepper]

Best two lines of the movie:

"Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life" and "Were you gonna die alone?"

Ya know, this film is just thought of as a "western", but to me this is a piece of film making that few can come close to. It was a perfect fit for itself, has all the elements of a great story and some the greatest characters of all time. I never get tired of this great movie. Before I even knew that this movie influenced the DT books, I read The Gunslinger and immediately thought of this and Clint Eastwood as Roland.

[Goodlovin]

I love the man with no name trilogy and most Eastwood flicks.

I know he is the basis for Roland and all but I have never at any point seen a face that looks like Clint's face in my minds eye when reading about Roland.

[catnoel]

Me and my dad used to watch the good the bad and the ugly everytime it was on TV. It will forever be a favorite memory of mine. HEYYYYYY BLLLLOOOOOOOONNNNNNNDDIEEE!!!!

[Wayne C. Rogers]

When The Gunslinger/Dark Tower was first published and I read it, I saw a combination of Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name and Kirt Russell in Escape from New York as the gunslinger. This was like twenty-six or twenty-seven years ago. Sometimes it amazes me that I've been reading SK's novels for like thirty-three years. That's more than half of my life.