The third and final film in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western Dollars trilogy is also his best and shot Clint Eastwood to stardom.

Accompanied by Ennio Morricone’s iconic score, the plot of The Good, the Bad and The Ugly follows three gunslingers in a race to locate buried Confederate gold amid the American Civil War.

Considered one of the best movies ever made, Quentin Tarantino calls this masterpiece “the best-directed film of all time” and “the greatest achievement in the history of cinema”.

And it also turns out he views the Dollars trilogy starring Eastwood’s Man with No Name as the best movie trilogy ever made.

For Tarantino, it’s the fact that each film surpasses the one that preceded it in greatness.

Speaking previously with Bill Maher on his Club Random podcast, Tarantino said: “I think there’s only one trilogy that completely and utterly works to the Nth degree and that’s A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” He claimed it was Leone’s “one director vision” that made this possible.

The director continued: “It does what no other trilogy has ever been quite able to do.The first movie is terrific, but the second movie is so great and takes the whole idea to such a bigger canvas that it obliterates the first one. And then the third one does the same thing to the second one, and that’s kind of what never happens. You’ll see this big jump from the first to the second and they don’t really land the third one.”

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is on BBC Two this Sunday at 10pm and will be streaming on BBC iPlayer for a limited time afterwards.