Clint Eastwood in the 1960s already becoming very popular in France, labelled as the "new Gary Cooper". In Paris, he met Pierre Rissient and had an affair with actress Catherine Deneuve. Two months later Eastwood began working on "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", the final film of the Dollars trilogy, in which he again played the mysterious Man With No Name character. Lee Van Cleef was brought in again to play a ruthless fortune seeker, while Eli Wallach, a character actor noted for his appearance in "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), was hired to play the cunning Mexican bandit "Tuco", although the role was
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (theme) "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". The song was also used in TV commercials for Camel Cigarettes during the 1980s. It was sampled for the remix of rapper Busta Rhymes's song, "Stop The Party", after T.I.'s verse. It was sampled in the background beat of the chorus in rapper Big Lurch's well-known song "Texas Boy" in conjunction with a sample of Oliver Nelson's "Skull Session". Comedian Eddie Murphy whistled the opening notes during the "Shoe-Throwing Mother" monologue of his 1983 "Delirious" television special. The 1994 video game Jazz Jackrabbit uses the opening notes throughout the music for the level