Eli Wallach was great in this one.
I loved the music score for the movie
I always liked For A Few Dollars More. Clint tallying up the reward money as he loaded up the bodies in the wagon.
They don’t make good movies anymore.
Once a month or so he would play it with his door open.
Everyone in the hall would hear it and trot back to the rooms to turn their TV on to find the movie they thought was airing.
So it was a showdown between an Army vet, a Navy vet with a Bronze Star, and an ex-Army captain.
Clint actually did “Fistful of Dollars” for $15,000. Leone was sued by Kurosawa for ripping off his “Yojimbo” shogun plot for “Fistful of Dollars” and had to pay him all the box office proceeds.
Clint didn’t really like working with Leone who spoke only a bit of English. The Italian stunt rules were also pretty loose compared to Hollywood and the scene with Tuco’s head next to the train when cuts off his chains nearly killed Eli Wallach. They had to dig a lower pit for him at the last minute to avoid having some hanging parts of the train decapitate him.
The best Morricone cue IMHO in the movie is the “Ecstasy of Gold” music that follows Tuco as he hunts for the grave that contains Bill Carson. Metallica used this as their intro for years and the Modella beer commercial is now using it as well.
I never could follow the original release because it was edited for time by the studio execs and destroyed the continuity. Once the director’s original cut was available it all made beautiful sense.
Calum Russell....what a sappy review...the movie has many, many levels of meaning, In one part of the duel, the music stops, and the caw of a crow rings out...meaning that whoever dies will become food for the birds in the middle of nowhere.....great stuff...the music:stunning and memorable, the characters:real, rugged, rapacious,,,the desperation of all the characters, the filth and dirt of the scenes..Leones starkly realistic style changed the presentation of movies forever. IMHO.
There’s two kinds of people in the world Tuco. Those with guns. And, those who dig.
You dig.
“Spaghetti Westerns” were some of the greatest western movies ever. Due in no small measure to the genius performance of Clint Eastwood. A perfect match with Sergio Leone.
If there are three dudes, can it truly be called a “duel”?
In this case maybe, since there were only really {spoiler alert)....
....2 dude witb the ammos.