10 Great Movies With ONE Terrible Element

A possibly scorching-hot take incoming here, but while Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an unassailable Western masterpiece, the dubbing is a distracting intrusion we all put up with because the rest of the movie is so freakin' awesome.

At the time of the film's 1966 release, it was standard practise in Italian cinema to shoot films without synchronised sound and simply re-dub the dialogue later.

And The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is no different - the diverse international cast all spoke in their native languages, with Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef later re-dubbing their own English dialogue, while most of the movie's other characters had their lines re-dubbed into English by unknown performers.

It's a result of the movie simply being made where it was in the time that it was, yet nevertheless creates a fissure in its layer of immersion, and one that's on occasion unintentionally hilarious.

Things got even worse and weirder for the 2002 Extended Edition, which restored 14 minutes of cut scenes that hadn't had any voiceover previously recorded.

And so, Eastwood and Wallach returned to record their lines 35 years after the movie's original release, while the deceased Van Cleef was dubbed over by a new actor.

This dubbing was criticised by many fans due to Eastwood and Wallach simply sounding distractingly older during these scenes, while Van Cleef's vocal double simply wasn't convincing enough.