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The Greatest Western Trilogy Ever Made Is Being Removed From Streaming
The Western may not dominate Hollywood the way it once did, but it’s never truly left the cultural conversation. In recent years, creators like Taylor Sheridan have revived the genre through modern sagas like Yellowstone and period-driven stories like 1883 and 1923. Even awards-season contenders like 2025’s Train Dreams have proven there’s still room for dusty landscapes and emotional reckonings on the big screen, not to mention modern classics like True Grit and 3:10 to Yuma — ironically both remakes of older westerns.
But long before prestige cable and neo-Westerns, there was one trilogy that reshaped the genre entirely — a trio of films that every cowboy epic since has been chasing, and now, that trilogy is about to disappear from streaming. The Dollars Trilogy — A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — is officially leaving Prime Video on February 28, giving fans less than a month to revisit one of cinema’s most influential runs.
Directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, the trilogy didn’t just popularize the Spaghetti Western — it redefined what a Western hero could look like. Eastwood’s cigarillo-smoking antihero, the “Man With No Name,” first rides into town in A Fistful of Dollars, a gritty tale of gang warfare in the border town of San Miguel. The sequel pairs Eastwood’s drifter with a rival bounty hunter in pursuit of a dangerous outlaw, before The Good, the Bad and the Ugly perfected the formula.
How Good Is ‘The Dollars Trilogy’?
Collider’s Blu-ray review stated that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is pure cinema — not necessarily profound in theme, but undeniably masterful in execution, stretching style, sound, and image into something unforgettable. The review emphasized that the film demands to be seen big and heard loud, praising high-definition releases for enhancing Leone’s grand, operatic style. While Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West may be his crowning achievement, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly stands only a breath behind — one of the defining Spaghetti Westerns and an essential piece of film history.
This is one of the great Spaghetti westerns, and though Leone’s next, Once Upon a Time in the West, is his masterpiece, this is only spitting distance from that. This is an absolute must-have.
The Dollars Trilogy leaves Prime Video at the end of February.
- Release Date
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December 22, 1966
- Runtime
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161 minutes
- Writers
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Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone, Mickey Knox
- Producers
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Alberto Grimaldi