Following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, Clint Eastwood returned for a 3rd outing as The Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s traditional Dollars Trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns.

In truth, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly would go down as the most effective of the style, however it was removed from a cheerful set that was stuffed with feuding and harmful stunt.

The 36-year-old Hollywood star would find yourself carrying the identical poncho he did within the first two movies with out having it cleaned and initially wasn’t pleased with the script.

According to Patrick McGilligan’s Clint: The Life and Legend, he instructed Leone: “In the first film, I was alone. In the second, we were two. Here we are three. If it goes on this way, in the next one I will be starring with the American cavalry.”

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Eastwood was involved that “The Ugly” co-star Eli Wallach would upstage him, however ended up accepting the film with a price of as much as $250,000 with a Ferrari and 10 per cent of the earnings within the US. Both actors then flew out to Madrid collectively for the shoot, nevertheless, they discovered the accommodations had been absolutely booked up. As a end result, The Man with No Name star invited Wallach to sleep at his pal’s home the place the 2 stars ended up sharing the identical mattress. The latter’s spouse Anne Jackson stated upon listening to this that he might boast to be the one man to sleep with Clint Eastwood.

The Ugly actor ended up having a tough time on the movie, virtually being poisoned after consuming from a bottle of acid {that a} movie technician had put subsequent to his soda bottle. Wallach wrote in his autobiography that whereas Leone was an unbelievable director security was very lax amid the damaging stunts they had been performing, together with his life being threatened a pair extra occasions.

Another was when filming the scene the place The Ugly is sat on a horse with a rope round his neck to be hanged. After a gun is shot, the horse was presupposed to bolt however turned so scared it ran for a mile with Wallach nonetheless having his arms certain. Luckily the noose had severed beforehand.

The third time was when he was chained to a physique and needed to sever the hyperlinks on a railroad monitor as a prepare glided by. However, the crew and actor weren't conscious of the heavy iron steps that may jut one foot out of each boxcar. So if he’d stood up on the improper time he might have been decapitated. Meanwhile, Eastwood himself was changing into fed up with Leone as a director for all his calls for and perfectionism.

Eastwood hated smoking cigars and the filmmaker typically insisted on a number of takes, exhausting his actors by capturing the identical scenes from many alternative angles. Wallach stated his co-star would generally inform the director: “You’d better get it this time, because I’m going to throw up.”

By the time filming was accomplished, he’d had sufficient and the 2 by no means labored once more, although the director tried to pursue him for 1968’s Once Upon a Time within the West. Leone wished Eastwood to play Harmonica, a task that ultimately went to Charles Bronson in that image.

Years later, when capturing Once Upon a Time in America within the Eighties, Leone had his revenge, evaluating him to Robert De Niro within the new film, he stated: “Eastwood moves like a sleepwalker between explosions and hails of bullets, and he is always the same—a block of marble. Bobby first of all is an actor, Clint first of all is a star. Bobby suffers, Clint yawns.”