In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood’s character is nicknamed Blondie.
Blondie is the film’s taciturn bounty hunter and corresponds to “the Good” in Sergio Leone’s morally shifting trio. He forms an uneasy partnership with Tuco, the Ugly, while competing against Angel Eyes, the Bad, to locate buried Confederate gold.
The nickname is used by Tuco, who addresses Eastwood’s character as Blondie. The character is also commonly called the Man with No Name, although that phrase describes the recurring archetype Eastwood played across Leone’s Dollars Trilogy rather than supplying a conventional personal name.
The film was released in Italy in 1966 and became the third and final entry in the Dollars Trilogy. Its American release followed in 1967. Although the story is set during the American Civil War, it was filmed primarily in Spain, including the Tabernas Desert and the location later known as Sad Hill Cemetery.
The alternatives are the names of other central characters: Sentenza is Angel Eyes, while Tuco is the bandit who partners with Blondie.