Director:
Albert Hughes
Allen Hughes
Written by:
Gary Whitta
Tagline:
Some will kill to have it. He will kill to protect it.
Plot:
The world has become a lawless civilization where people must kill or be killed. The barren roads belong to gangs of cutthroats who rob and kill for water, a pair of shoes, a lighter, or just for fun. Eli is a peaceful man who only acts in self defense, and becomes a warrior with unbelievable killing skills when he is challenged. After the war and the “Big Flash”, Eli was guided by a higher power to a hidden book and given the task of protecting the book and taking it to its final destination. Eli guards the book with his life, because he knows that the book is the only hope that humanity has for its future.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Sergio Leone
Written by:
Luciano Vincenzoni
Sergio Leone
Tagline:
The Man with No Name Returns !
Plot:
During the American Civil War destiny brings bandit Tuco ‘The Ugly’ (Eli Wallach), bounty hunter Angel Eyes ‘The Bad’ (Lee Van Cleef) and gunman Blondie ‘The Good’ (Clint Eastwood) together. Forming a strange alliance the trio starts looking for a cache of Confederate gold. Relations based on ambition to own the gold, chaotic atmosphere of the war and three dangerous men who doesn’t trust each other. One of the best westerns ever made. Also known as Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.
Runtime: 161 min/179 min (2005 DVD Special Edition)
Awards: 1 win
Director: Clint Eastwood
Written By:
David Webb Peoples
Plot:
In 1880 Wyoming, in the town Big Whiskey, a prostitute’s face has been slashed by a cowboy. Local sheriff Little Big Daggett (Gene Hackman) fines a minor punishment for cowboys. Unhappy with the sheriff’s decision, other prostitutes put a bounty on two cowboy’s heads.
Meanwhile in Kansas William ‘Bill’ Munny (Clint Eastwood), a retired gunslinger, bandit and bounty hunter, is having a hard time after his wife passed away by running the farm and raising two young children. Knowing ‘Bill’ by his great reputation a young cowboy who names himself The Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) offers him to share the bounty. Later on Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman), Bill’s old partner, joins up the two. Thus tree gunmen heads to The Town of Big Whiskey.
Runtime: 131 min
Awards: Won 4 Oscars. Another 30 wins & 15 nominations
