According to Vincenzoni and Eli Wallach, the film would have been set 20 years after the original and would have followed Tuco pursuing Blondie's grandson for the gold. If Wallach had stood up from his prone position at the wrong time, one of the jutting steps could have decapitated him. The sequence with Tuco and Blondie crossing the desert has been extended: Tuco mentally tortures a severely dehydrated Blondie by eating and bathing in front of him.

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At the same time, Grimaldi was trying to broker his own deal, but Vincenzoni's idea was more lucrative. Throughout filming, Eastwood regularly socialized with actor Franco Nero, who was filming Texas, Adios at the time. That’s not a big loss but we also must do without Sir Christopher Frayling’s authoritative commentary, which regrettably also just won’t fit. We hope you enjoy our growing collection of HD images to use as a background or home screen for your smartphone or computer.After the sound of gunfire is heard Tuco escapes through a window after shooting the three, one of whom survives (fulfilling his title as 'The Ugly'). I was also happy to meet collector Howard Fridkin, and see some of his prodigious collection of Leone and Italo-western ‘paper. Leone's film, and the genre that he defined within it, shows a west that is more violent, less talky, more complex, more theatrical, and just overall more iconic through the use of music, appearing operatic as the music is an illustrative ingredient of the narrative. Wallach was almost poisoned during filming when he accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had set next to his soda bottle. This was Leone's signature technique, using long drawn shots interspersed with extreme close-ups that build tension, as well as develop characters.

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Roger Ebert, who later included the film in his list of Great Movies, [88] retrospectively noted that in his original review he had "described a four-star movie, but only gave it three stars, perhaps because it was a 'Spaghetti Western' and so could not be art. The film was novelized in 1967 by Joe Millard as part of the "Dollars Western" series based on the "Man with No Name". The two or three infinitely-duplicated gunshot sounds would never sound reasonable in a stereophonic environment.Quentin Tarantino paid homage to the film's climactic standoff scene in his 1992 film Reservoir Dogs. Conversely, Leone - and Eastwood - would steadily drive in the opposite direction, crafting a now-iconic Man with No Name persona who was never more of an anti-hero than in the epic conclusion of the Dollars trilogy, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Rawhide had ended its run as a series in 1966, and at that point, neither A Fistful of Dollars nor For a Few Dollars More had been released in the United States.