The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (theme) 80's R & B band Cameo used the theme's opening whistle in their singles "Word Up!" and "Single Life". Las Vegas, Nevada-based band Sin City Sinners always walk onto stage with a recording of the tune playing in the background. In the film , the character Jacob Moore, played by Shia LaBeouf, had a mobile cell phone ring tone of the opening tune of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", the film coincidentally also starred the actor who played the "Ugly", Eli Wallach. In the film "Faster, "the character "Killer" also had a mobile cell phone ring tone of
For a Few Dollars More the Ugly". The films catapulted Eastwood and Van Cleef into stardom. Film historian Richard Schickel, in his biography of Clint Eastwood, believed that this was the best film in the trilogy, arguing that it was "more elegant and complex than "A Fistful of Dollars" and more tense and compressed than "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"." Director Alex Cox considered the church scene to be one of "the most horrible deaths" of any Western, describing Volontè's Indio as the "most diabolical Western villain of all time." The man many call Manco (Eastwood) is a bounty killer who makes a