The "Greatest Western Ever Made" Is Being Cut From Streaming

Sixty years after its release, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and the other two films in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy are being removed from free streaming. All three were added to the ad-supported platform Pluto TV on Jun. 1 and have since been moved to the service's "Leaving Soon" page.

Pluto TV does not give exact departure dates, but free streamers typically work on one-month contracts with distributors, so expect the films to leave on Jul. 1. First released in 1966, Leone's trilogy-ending western stars Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name (Joe), who is forced to team up with a crooked criminal to hunt down a treasure toward the end of the Civil War while racing a ruthless bounty hunter.

The film is widely regarded as the most action-packed of the three Dollars pictures. Leone's direction, the script, the cinematography and Ennio Morricone's scores are often cited for making The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly a timeless masterpiece.

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