In the third and final work in the epic western trilogy by the late Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, Eastwood reprises his "man with no name" role, this time in cahoots with two distinctly untrustworthy accomplices: Van Cleef and Wallach—the "Bad" and the "Ugly" opposite Eastwood’s "Good." Set in Texas (but shot in the Basque country of Spain) during the Civil War, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly focuses on a simple quest to retrieve a stolen shipment of Confederate gold. The plot, as film critic and Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel notes, is "constantly beset by dislocating coincidences, vertiginous reversals of fortune and, most significantly, the chance, megahistorical intrusions of the war." While the complicated narrative twists and prevalent violence riled some reviewers (the New York Times retitled it "The Burn, the Gouge, and the Mangle"), Eastwood’s swan song to the spaghetti western was the most successful of this cycle of works and even spawned a hit single for composer Ennio Morricone.