Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

The aphorism "When I'm paid, I always perform the work" is of Jan Potocki.

"The man with no name" just 17 minutes in the entire movie is "branded" Poncho, which was a landmark for the first two westerns.

In the film, played by the actor Antonio Casas, who previously appeared in the film "Colossus of Rhodes" (1961) in the role of the Phoenician Ambassador.

Character "Angel eyes", played by Lee van Cleef, is borrowed from the movie Sergio Sollima "give up and pay up" (1966). There is only his character name is Jonathan Corbett.

"The good, the bad and the ugly" — the third film of the so-called "Dollar trilogy" of Sergio Leone. In each part of this trilogy becoming one of the main character more, ie in the first part, "a fistful of dollars" (1964) was only one main character (the character Clint Eastwood) in the movie "For a few dollars more" (1965) has two main characters, respectively, in "the Good, the bad evil" main characters three.

Individual episodes of the film used in the Soviet film "the Elusive Avengers" (1966) (episode with the carriage and fell from her corpse) and "home among strangers, stranger among friends" (1974) ("You can't kill me. You got me to protect you — our agent only I know").

The film was shot in the desert of Tabernas in Spain.

The first word in the movie is pronounced only 10 minutes of the film.

In the promotional video of the film Angel Eyes Is "Evil" and Tuco "the Bad". The film feature is "the Bad" belongs to Angelic Eyes, "Evil" — Tuco. The thing is that the film's title was translated into English as "Good, Evil, Bad", not "the Good, the Bad and the ugly." This feature was not taken into account during the creation of the American trailer.

Initially, Eli Wallach and Sergio Leone decided that Tuco needs to carry a gun on a rope tied to his neck, and at the right time to put the gun in his hand and with a deft twist of the neck. However, after numerous unsuccessful attempts Eli to do such a trick, he turned to Sergio Leone, that he demonstrated this movement. Leone was unable to grab the gun hand and the gun hit him in the groin. Then Leone said that Tuco would carry a gun outside the belt.

As Sergio Leone almost didn't speak any English, and Eli Wallach almost spoke no Italian, they spoke in French.

Originally Sergio Leone wanted to invite Gian Maria Volonte in the role of Evil.

The role of Tuco, and Angel Eyes was offered to Charles Bronson.

In the crowd were involved about 1,500 Spanish military.

Four scenes were cut from the original release of the film in English. Subsequently, these scenes were restored and dubbed from Italian to English. Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach dubbed their characters in English, but dubbing Angel Eyes had to invite another actor, as Lee van Cleef died in 1989.

In the film, only five of the actors speak in English: Clint Eastwood, Lee van Cleef, Eli Wallach, al Mulock and John Barth. All the other actors spoke their native language, and at the stage of post production of their dubbed in English.

Prison "Betterville" was built on the basis of actually existing prison "Andersonville".

Ennio Morricone wrote the music to in some moments she imitated the sound of howling hyenas.

Clint Eastwood wore the same poncho in all films of the trilogy "the Man with no name". Poncho was never washed.

Before filming Orson Welles advised Sergio Leone to abandon production of the picture, since almost all the films on the theme of the civil war invariably failed at the box office.

According to his autobiography, Eli Wallach "the Good, the Bad and me", Sergio Leone approved him for the role of Tuco not because of her role in the movie "the Magnificent seven" (1960), and seeing him in small roles in the movie "War in the West" (1962).

Stripes on the uniform of Confederate soldiers indicate what division they imparted: the color blue signified infantry, and gold for cavalry, red for artillery.

The full version of the film has a duration of 179 minutes.

Initially, the intent Leone, the trio was supposed to look like this: Clint Eastwood — Charles Bronson — Gian Maria Volonte (the Good, the Bad and the ugly, respectively). Bronson at the time was busy filming "the Dirty Dozen"(1967), Volonte, according to the Director, lacked "genuine comic talent" — he was largely a tragic actor.

At the stage of preparation of the script of Vincenzoni read a lot of books in the Library of Congress, appealed to the archives. Some queries baffled archivists — have rarely been applied to the documents on the operations of the Civil war in which the northerners were defeated.

The original version of the script was written in 11 days (in Italian), mostly Vincenzoni. Leone was not very satisfied with the work and invited Vincenzoni Duo of Agenore Incrocci sponsors and Furio Scarpelli. They were supposed to finalize the text and to give more humor to the remarks and dialogues, but Leone described their contribution as "disastrous". In the final text, their work is almost nothing left, though in the credits they got. Upon completion of the script was roughly translated into English so that the actors-Americans was the text for the dialogues on the set.

Before filming the relationship of Vincenzoni Luciano and Leone deteriorated, and participation in the work on the painting, the writer then did not take, although sometimes visited the set. The authorship of the idea of the script was controversial. In his memoirs of Vincenzoni mentions that he came up with the storyline about the three criminals who go for the gold. Sergio Leone in an interview said nothing about the contribution of Vincenzoni, only mentioning that he was inspired by the opportunity to remove the picture, the story of which will unfold against the backdrop of Civil war.

Being in Los Angeles, Leone went to the agent Eli Wallach and offered the actor the role in the film. The Wallach then had problems with his family, and he didn't want to leave his wife and fly to Europe. Besides, he never encountered the work of Leone. He also did not like the next "villain-Latino" as she looked a cursory reading of the script. However, after watching an excerpt from "For a few dollars more," Wallach agreed immediately and signed the contract.

In the picture were not involved in professional stuntmen. Part of their tasks are performed by the actor Benito Stefanelli and Romano Puppo.

In the original scenario, the main characters were to be two heroes that reflected in the working title "Two incredible vagrants" (ital. I due magnifici straccioni, eng. The Two Magnificent Tramps). Subsequently, the Tuco role was expanded to main, and the name was changed.

The leadership of United Artists initially planned to give the picture in American theaters a new name. Discussed options for "River of Dollars" ("River of dollars" to give a similar "dollar" name) and "A Man with No Name" ("Man with no name"), but after discussion, the left translation of the Italian.

In German language the film was released as "Zwei glorreiche Halunken" ("Two incredible vagrants" — the working title of the film).

At first the Italian script of the character of Clint Eastwood's name was joy, and then he remained without a name. Tuco calls him "Blondie". In English literature it is often called "the Shooter" or "Man with no name". The original "bad" character in the scenario was called the Banjo, during the filming renamed Sententsa, and in the English dub it was "Angel eyes".

Field and Studio shooting pictures were from may to July, 1966 in Italy and Spain and took about 13 weeks.

Extensive collection of weapons provided for the filming of the Museum of the Spanish army.

Cemetery Seghill built 250 soldiers of the Spanish army with 8000 graves in accordance with the preliminary sketches.

A small river of the Arlans near Burgos played the role of the Rio Grande. When the shooting began, it turned out that the river completely shoaled, and the soldiers had to build a dam in order to slightly raise the water level.

During the second construction of the bridge at Leone had the idea to film the flight from the bridge of the Blonde and Tuco, and the explosion of one Assembly gluing. It turned out that the actors for scenes must be dangerously close to the explosion. After several rehearsals, the assistants picked up a remote position. The actors really captured on the background of the explosion about the way Director intended, and even slightly hurt by the blast.

The first widescreen film Leone.

Clint Eastwood often tried to intervene in the production process and made comments. He believed that the schedule of filming greatly tightened and, by American standards, was to take much less than three months. Tonino Valerii recalled how the behavior of Eastwood it was already clear that in the future he will become a Director. Leone very jealous attitude toward these liberties on the part of the actors and did not want to share power at the site.

Eastwood had never smoked, was a vegetarian and is known for its commitment to a healthy lifestyle. However, the Director insisted, and Clint sometimes had to keep the cigar lit. Van Cleef, in contrast, then suffered greatly because of his addiction to alcohol, but, on responses of eyewitnesses, it does not interfere with work.

Although the budget of the film was in European terms a significant, sometimes incomprehensible to the Hollywood economy. The actors were limited in the choice of costumes. Eastwood recalled that he was only one cowboy hat and that if she got lost, who knows where I could find a replacement. So it is very attentive to his things and closing the door, took his suit with him.

The involvement of the stuntmen in the production was minimal, and many perilous scenes, the actors performed themselves. In the preparation of the execution scene, in which Tuco sat in the saddle with a noose around his neck, he asked the Director to tie the horse. This was not done. After "shot" (the rope was broken a little bit of explosives) the horse carried the actor with his hands tied and stayed in the desert, rode at least a mile. Another dangerous incident associated with a scene, where Tuco was lying near the railway tracks, trying to get rid of the handcuffs. The bandwagon passing train almost demolished the actor's head. Wallach refused to repeat, and the episode included in the film in one take.

Eli Wallach and Sergio Leone became very close during the filming and afterwards remained good friends.

Editing of the film began in the summer, during filming and lasted until Christmas 1966. The creators were in a hurry to finish work for the holidays. Sergio Donati recalled how Leone was nervous. On the set the Director was acting relaxed, was full of energy and fantasies. When it came to installation, his condition had changed. After another change of Leone complained: "I'll never finish this movie..." He was afraid of failure — it was the most expensive film of his career. Leone demanded the crew full concentration and worked for wear. The last week before the premiere of the film-makers slept in the editing room. Donati himself with displeasure recalled how put six months for the installation of "the Good, the bad and the ugly", although his name eventually didn't even get to the credits.

The final Assembly has significantly changed the plot of the film. More attention was paid to the character of Tuco. Just before Leone was deleted about 20 minutes: in particular, a love scene involving a Blond. Was seen a logical problem in the scene at the beginning where Sententsa talking to a disabled person (polydata): it is not consistent with the meaning of future events. Had to change it and redubbed.

The leadership of United Artists wanted to see a picture lasting no more than 2 hours, as directed in the installation focused on the duration about three hours. Leone tried to insist on his own previous paintings of the trilogy was not cropped, but had to compromise. The duration of the Italian paintings in the rolling version is 175 minutes. The us rental version was cut to 161 minutes. It was significantly shortened lengthy scenes without replicas.

On the screens of Italy, the picture was published on 23 December 1966. The screens in the United States took place a year later, on 29 December 1967. The delay was due to the fact that United Artists decided to release all the paintings of the trilogy in the American car, one after another in 1967. To prior paintings of the trilogy are also required additional editing, duplication. For all ordered and shared advertising campaign.

In the process of English dubbing, Eastwood began to utter their text in the first draft of the script. Use the updated new text, he refused. Had to intervene Vice-President of United Artists Chris Mankiewicz, who literally forced him to do it. After that, between Leone and Eastwood finally deteriorated relationship, and they never cooperated.

After finishing work on the film Sergio Leone admitted in an interview that was done with westerns now and will move on. He had plans to remove the gangster Saga, but Paramount Pictures insisted that the next film will be a Western.

Vincenzoni subsequently had the idea for the sequel "the Good, the bad and the ugly", even agreed with van Cleef, Leone, but consent is not received.

Leone was rather skeptical to the embodiment Eastwood his character. When he looked at it, it is not seen Nameless Arrow, but only the figure of the actor. Leone is credited with the ironic statement that Clint had two expressions: with hat and without hat.

Lee van Cleef did not consider himself an actor, suitable for negative roles. He said of himself that had never struck neither man nor animal. In the film, when the scene he had to hit a girl, the actor did the stunt double.

A great influence on the visual design was provided by the work of photographers of the XIX century Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner, whose pictures were later used in the preparation of the battle scenes and scenery of the film.

Attention directed to the visual side of the picture the cameraman Tonino Delli Colli, sometimes not shared, considering that Leone is making things difficult. When it was necessary to capture only the faces of the characters for the final scene of the duel, the shooting took all day. Eli Wallach remembered that the Director wanted to finish the final scene in the cemetery, using the camera rising high into the sky, but could not afford a helicopter. Had to limit the shooting of the crane.

"The good, the bad, and the ugly" follows the events of the Gothic novel "the Manuscript found in Saragossa" by Jan Potocki: it's all for one with the assassin who takes money from two enemies and two kills at a time.

In the scene where Tuco runs through the cemetery, suddenly right in the frame appears a dog. This idea was invented by Sergio Leone in order to avoid melodrama. Moreover, the appearance of an animal Eli Wallach was not warned. So his amazement is quite natural.

According to Eli Wallach, when it came time to blow up the bridge, Sergio Leone asked the captain of the Spanish army to operate the detonator in appreciation of the cooperation between the crew and the Spanish army. It was agreed that the explosion happens at the command of Leone, which was to say on the radio, "Vai!". However, one of the members of the crew said on the radio the same. Hearing the signal, the captain pressed the detonator button. The bridge was blown up, when not working no camera. Leone was so upset about the incident, immediately fired the person who uttered the command to explode. The Spanish captain was also upset because the explosion partly at fault. Therefore, it is suggested Leone to rebuild the bridge forces the Spanish army, but under one condition: the dismissed member of the crew must restore at work. Leone agreed, "hero" again took to work, the bridge was rebuilt, and the scene taken out.

In the scene where the hero al Moloka trying to kill Tuco taking a bath, al could not remember her lines. In the end, Sergio Leone was so tired of making the outtakes that he asked al to count from one to ten with a ferocious expression. At the stage of post production the words of al was duplicated on the right lines.

Jack Elam refused the role of a one-armed shooter, trying to kill Tuco in the bathtub.

Before the scene in the gun shop Wallach told the Director that few dealt with the weapon, and no idea how to behave. The Director is encouraged to improvise. Eli, collecting from several Colt Navy revolvers, decided to listen to the sound of drum rotation: that's all he could think of. Leone liked the Reprise of the actor, and he left it in this form.