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An elaborate set piece.
This wasn't an expensive movie.
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It was in fact treated as the B-movie
of two films which were being made
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by the Italian producers,
Giorgio Papi and Arrigo Colombo.
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They made a film back to back with this,
Pistols Don't Argue, or Guns Don't Argue,
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directed by Mario Caiano, using the
same sets, some of the same costumes,
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and the same composer,
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and indeed the same designer.
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And Fistful was there
to use the residue of that movie.
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So the main one was Pistols Don't Argue,
which no one's heard of since.
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Fistful was there as the also-ran.
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So there wasn't much money,
that's why they went for Eastwood
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as the cheapest actor. There were
lots of squabbles about money.
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The money ran out three-quarters
of the way through shooting,
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because the Spanish coproducer,
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whose name appears on one of the
gravestones in the cemetery as an in-joke,
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the Spanish coproducer
hadn't paid his money to the technicians,
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so the technicians
arrived on set at Manzanares
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and removed all the windows and frames.
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They arrived and there were
no windows, so they couldn't shoot.
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At which point Papi and Colombo came
from Rome with a suitcase full of money,
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which wasn't legal at the time,
cash money,
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crossed the border,
paid off the technicians,
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the windows went back in,
and the movie could continue.
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In fact, Leone fell out
very seriously with Papi and Colombo
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cos he felt he was owed money
for this film, which he never received.
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They cross-collateralised
with the next movie.
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"We'll pay if you make another movie."
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At which point Leone threw his lot in with
the entertainment lawyer Alberto Grimaldi,