Angel Eyes

"But you know, the pity is when I'm paid, I always follow my job through."

- Angel Eyes

Angel Eyes, also known as "The Bad" and "Sentenza", is a villain in Sergio Leone's legendary 1966 western movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He was portrayed by Lee Van Cleef, and has become one of the most iconic bad guys in film history.

History
Angel Eyes is a ruthless and cunning killer, who has been hired to get clues on the whereabouts of a man called Jackson, finding out he has changed his name to Bill Carson and is gone missing. When he learns that a fortune in cash is in the middle of this thing, he kills the informer and his own employer and goes on a search by himself.

After learning that Carson is with the Confederacy, he gets a job as a sergeant from a Union prison camp in case the man is captured. When Blondie (The Good) and Tuco (The Ugly) fall in this camp, he deducts that Carson is dead and that Tuco was one of the last people to see him alive. He gets one of his henchmen to brutally beat Tuco in order to find out about the money, which works, as he is told the name of the cemetery where it has been buried.

Angel Eyes then recruits Blondie as a member of his gang, since he knows the specific grave where the treasure is, and offers him a 50/50 deal. In the meantime, Tuco has been put on a train which is headed to a far town where he is to be hanged, but manages to escape and kill his guard (thus getting even for the beating, too). Blondie eventually breaks free from Angel Eyes' custody and reunites with Tuco, reaching the cemetery after spending a day and a night at a Union fort. While they are looking for the money, Angel Eyes suddenly shows up for the final duel.

Ironically, of the three main characters, Angel Eyes is the one who kills less people throughout the film: Stevens and his son and then Baker; yet he is clearly the most vicious, as he takes certain joy in killing and has the cold blood to tell Tuco a joke during the man's torture and interrogatory.

Triva

 * Park Chang-yi was based on Angel Eyes.