The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Classic Movies)

The cache is NOT at the above coordinates, but you will probably drive past that point on your way to a good parking spot before heading up the trail to this cache. If you would like to see a hint on where we parked when placing this cache, see the attached photo.

BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN THE LETTER CODE ON THE LID OF THE CONTAINER, AND IN THE FRONT OF THE LOGBOOK (SAME CODE) WHICH IS USED IN THE “CLASSIC MOVIES" FINAL CACHE which is linked below.

Note the terrain rating for this cache; we strongly recommend taking water and wearing good hiking shoes/boots as it was HOT on the trail while not very hot in town. The hike along the trail is not long but is steep in spots with a lot of loose rocks; the trail will get you to within 150 feet or so of the cache and then there is a LOT of cactus. But -- the 3 Kidz and I (one 10 year old and twin 6 year olds) -- made it from parking to planting the cache (which took a while) and then back to the car in right at one hour, on a sunny day with no rain or snow. If the ground is wet, or if there is any snow or ice, the terrain rating will be higher. While part of the trail is steep, THERE ARE NO CLIFFS OR DROPOFFS. Some cachers may not rate the terrain a 4, but we did our best with limited cache-free areas to plant a replacement cache somewhat close to the location of the original, while keeping the original D/T ratings. THERE IS A GREAT VIEW SPOT 200 FEET DUE EAST OF GZ WHICH IS ALONG THE TRAIL; AGAIN -- NO CLIFFS OR DROPOFFS.

Welcome to the third Classic Movies cache by the 3 Williams Kidz geo-team. The idea is that you will have to watch the movie to get the answers to the questions below; there are one, maybe two exceptions, for trivia’s sake. Since the entire script is available – and easily “searchable” -- online, I have tried to come up with questions that you cannot answer by searching the Internet, so some of these questions are pretty obscure.

Here are all the geocaches in the Classic Movies series:

1. Casablanca

2. The Great Escape

3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

4. Cool Hand Luke

5. Patton

6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

7. The Godfather

8. High Noon

9. The Wizard of Oz

10. Gone With the Wind

And the FINAL cache: Classic Movies FINAL cache

If you are willing to watch one of Hollywood’s finest classic movies, get the TV and video player ready, maybe pop some popcorn, and have a pen and paper ready to answer the below questions, which are NOT IN THE ORDER they are presented in the film (just one part of the difficulty rating). I used the MGM Special Edition 2-Disc DVD Collector's Set DVD to develop the questions, but you should be able to get the answers by watching any version. Make sure to plan enough time to watch this film -- it is 2 hours and 59 minutes long.

The cache is located at North AB CD.EFG West HIJ KL.MNO

Latitude:

A: After the leader of the Union forces dusts off his sleeve, allowing Tuco (The Ugly -- Eli Wallach) and The Good (Clint Eastwood) to see that his uniform is blue, Tuco and The Good are taken prisoner by Union forces; in the next scene, a big, burly, bearded Union soldier is calling cadence, to get all the prisoners to march in step. The number of stripes on his sleeve PLUS ONE is A.

B: The gold is finally found; $200,000 dollars worth -- the number of canvas sacks that contain the gold is B.

C: Angel Eyes (The Bad) says "It's Bill Carson's tobacco." Then, the film cuts to a scene of the band outside. There are 11 instruments in the band, and the position number of the only guitar is C. If the guitar is difficult to see, the position number of the accordion MINUS THREE is also C.

D: The gold has been found; Blondie tells Tuco he has to put his head in the noose. As Tuco is doing so, the wooden cross you can see in the background has a name on it. If the name is William, D is 0. If the name is Jack, D is 1. If the name is Pedro, D is 2.

E: Angel Eyes and The Good agree to head out of the Union prison camp and go for the gold; then, we see a photographer take a picture of some Union soldiers. The number of soldiers in the picture is E.

F: Tuco is forcing Blondie (the good) across the desert; in the distance, they see a stagecoach. The number of horses pulling the stagecoach PLUS ONE is F.

G: After comforting a mortally wounded soldier, Blondie sees Tuco take off toward the cemetery; the number of cannon shots he fires at him, before he reaches the cemetery is G.

Longitude:

H: Angel Eyes (the bad) invites Tuco, who is now a prisoner, into his quarters, and they both eat lunch. Angel Eyes pours drinks from a bottle that has a label with a drawing of people on it. The number of people on the label is H.

I: The number of Academy Awards that the film was nominated for is I. This number includes any potential nominations for Best Original Score.

J: The Bad (Lee van Cleef) returns to his first, original employer, to tell him that the name he was looking for is Bill Carson. But -- he was paid $1000 by the man he killed, and he always follows through with his job. The number of times he fires through the pillow is J.

K: "When you have to shoot, SHOOT -- don't talk!" Tuco is taking a bubble bath (ow, my eyes hurt seeing that …) and he is about to be killed BUT -- he gets the upper hand, and kills the one-armed intruder. The number of shots that Tuco fires (the intruder doesn't fire any shots) is K.

L: The Bad, who is now a sergeant in the Union Army, is interviewing Tuco (The Ugly). Angel Eyes -- The Bad -- is looking at an oyster-shell case jewelry box (or something like that) with a red lining, that has two words stitched into it. The number of letters in the first word is L.

M: Bill Carson – in the back of the stagecoach -- is wearing a Confederate uniform with stripes on the sleeve. The number of stripes (on each sleeve) PLUS ONE is M.

N: The barrel of the pistol that The Good (Clint Eastwood) uses throughout the film has what kind of barrel? If octagonal, N=0; if round, N=1.

O: Tuco (The Ugly) tries to hang the good (Clint Eastwood) in a hotel room, but a cannon shot destroys the hotel, and the good escapes. Then, Tuco sets out across the desert in search of The Good. The number of campfires -- each with a cigar in it MINUS ONE -- is O.

Hope you enjoyed the movie, and this puzzle ! If you have your solution, check it for accuracy at GeoChecker.com

FTF congratulations go to hartsdale ! hartsdale is now FTF on each of the first 3 Classic Movies caches -- great job !

Some trivia, from www.imdb.com:

In the theatrical trailer, Angel Eyes is "The Ugly" and Tuco "The Bad," which is the reverse of their designations in the actual film. This is because the Italian title translated into English is actually The Good, the Ugly, the Bad, not The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and the Italian trailer had "The Ugly" and "The Bad" in that order. When the trailer was transferred to English, The Ugly and The Bad were not reversed to coincide with the altered title, causing the incorrect designations.

Because Sergio Leone spoke barely any English and Eli Wallach spoke barely any Italian, the two communicated in French.

The three principal actors are the only ones who speak actual English in the film: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, with the exceptions of Al Mulock (the one-armed man) and John Bartha (the sheriff). Everyone else in the film is really speaking their native language, mostly Italian and Spanish, and was later dubbed into English.

Ennio Morricone’s iconic theme music was designed in places to mimic the sound of a crying hyena.

The film was shot with a process called Techniscope. This process means that you can shoot without an anamorphic lens, and only use half as much film as you would normally use. The Techniscope process places two widescreen frames on a single 35 mm frame.

Orson Welles warned Sergio Leone not to make this movie on the grounds that Civil War pictures were box office poison.

There is no dialog for the first 10-1/2 minutes of the film.

According to Eli Wallach, when it came time to blow up the bridge, Sergio Leone asked the Spanish army captain in charge to trigger the fuse, as a sign of gratitude for the army's collaboration. They agreed to blow up the bridge when Leone gave the signal "Vai!" (Go!) over the walkie-talkie. Unfortunately, another crew member spoke on the same channel, saying the words "vai, vai!", meaning "it's OK, proceed" to a second crew member. The captain heard this signal, thought it was for him and blew the bridge; unfortunately, no cameras were running at the time. Leone was so upset that he fired the crewman, who promptly fled from the set in his car. The captain was so sorry for what happened that he proposed to Leone that the army would rebuild the bridge to blow it up again, with one condition: that the fired crewman be re-hired. Leone agreed, the crewman was forgiven, the bridge was rebuilt and the scene was successfully shot.

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