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And on some prints of the film, he was
actually billed as "Western consultant",
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so Bill Thomkins not only
did stunts for Eastwood
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and appeared as one of the gunmen,
but was Western consultant.
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One can only wonder
what sort of consultancy,
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because it is so different
to the traditional Hollywood Western.
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Here's a dried-up riverbed in Almería.
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Almería's full of dried-up riverbeds called
ramblas, which were rivers but dried up.
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So you get canyon walls, and these wide,
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almost street-like
spaces in between them.
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These ramblas were incredibly useful
:58:44
for shooting sequences
of horses going at full tilt.
:58:48
You could keep the outside world out
and let 'em rip, like a racecourse.
:58:52
The ramblas of Almería
appear in this movie,
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as indeed they do
in all Leone's Westerns.
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A rare shot of Eastwood
actually lighting up his Toscano.
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One thing about them is that
they're difficult to keep alight.
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They keep going out,
and that's certainly the case here.
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Another moment of ultraviolence,
like with the Baxters falling off the gate.
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And the sound of the cat, which in one
or two of Leone's Westerns you get
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as a soundtrack thing,
to punctuate the action,
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the cat shrieking
as the violence takes place.