The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Parents Guide & Movie Info
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Family Review

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

1966 | 161 Minutes

No MPAA rating
IMDB: 8.8 ⭐️ Votes: 763,857

Content Warnings

  • Sexual Content
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    As a man rolls up a poster, another man shouts: "I'll give you a good idea where you can put it!"

    One of the main characters, Tuco Ramirez has said to have commited crimes such as inciting prostitution and rape.

  • Violence
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    An interrogator attempts to gouge out a man's eyes, but stops before any damage is done.

    The interrogation scene is probably the most violent part of the movie

    From towards the middle, the movie gets progressively more violent.

    A man is briefly shown being torn apart by a moving train. Not much is seen.

    Several injured/dead people are shown.

    A real skeleton is shown in one of the scenes. Not very graphic, but it may be a bit frightening.

    A man is violently beaten during an interrogation, with some blood shown. A woman is beaten and we can see blood on her lip.

    Some scenes of soldiers bleeding mild to moderately with bullet wounds in the chest area.

    A man is shot four times in the face through a pillow; nothing is heard and only a steaming hole in the pillow is seen. One character is bashed in the skull a few times (blood is briefly shown) and his dead body is run over by a locomotive offscreen.

    Numerous men are killed quickly by gunshots, some in one-on-one gun duels, others by military skirmishes and firing squads. Primarily bloodless, but corpses are often shown.

  • Profanity
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    8 uses of 'Bastard' a few uses of 'Son of a bitch' 2 uses of 'Ass' and 1 use of 'Piss'

    Not many uses of 'Hell' and 1 use of 'Goddamn'

    1 use of 'Shit' in the extended version.

  • Intense Scenes
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    The scene between Tuco and his brother Pablo is very emotional.

    There are several very emotional and sad scenes.

    Mild/Moderate for neurodivergent viewers.

    This movie is rated R but as far as R rated movies go it's not that inappropriate.

    Despite its R rating, this along with the two other films in the Dollars Trilogy are very mild by today's standards. The R ratings, similarly to 1960's Psycho, are super outdated and were likely rated like that because more violent films like Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and A Clockwork Orange (1971) hadn't been released. Most older tweens and teens will handle this.

    The movie's final minutes could be intense to some viewers.

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