THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

[Alpo]

Clint swapping cylinders was Pale Rider.

I just noticed, in that "Tuco builds a gun" clip, the cases of Acme brand BLACK POWDER in the store. Since smokeless wasn't around yet, all they had was black. Cases shoulda been marked simply GUNPOWDER, or possibly BLASTING POWDER.

 

[RobertJ.]

Apparently, there was more than just a couple gun errors in the movie:
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

 

[hostler]

Some of my favorite music, too!
YouTube

That was awesome. The combination of people in formal attire singing and playing spaghetti western music and the body hanging by a rope just confounded my senses. I like it.

 

[mtgianni]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s[/ame]
Another great interpretation of the music.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nouLQZCXW4A[/ame]
Another great scene.

 

[rwsmith]

Always a good showdown....

I rewatched the trilogy recently and they are still faves.

The end sequence in the cemetery is one of the all time great movie climaxes, though IMO slightly inferior to For a Few Dollars More, which is just incredible. And the music is absolutely key to these scenes. Amazing stuff.

"Fistful of Dollars" final scene where Clint tell Ramo'n to shoot him in the heart, and keeps getting up. Then 'fixing' it so that the final showdown is between him and Ramo'n where Ramo'n goes all dizzy bat was pretty cool.

A really classic line "Make three coffins." and later, "My mistake, make it four" will live in infamy..

The way TGTB&TU starts out with Lee Van Cleef going after the old man and then getting the name Bill Carson, takes it back to next guy, who he kills also. That's almost a movie in itself and a really intriguing beginning to start things off.

 

[RSBH44]

Was there a Clint Eastwood tribute going on this weekend or something?
I watched last night on TCM, Coogans Bluff, Where Eagles Dare & Kelly’s Hero's back to back. Man it was a long night.

 

[Absalom]

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I don't recall if it was that movie, but I do remember Clint changing cylinders (exchange empty for loaded) in at least one movie. That wasn't all that uncommon back in the day.

As Alpo said, that was "Pale Rider".

By the time that came out in the mid-1980s, attempts at authenticity had noticeably improved. For example, in many westerns the previously ubiquitous Winchester 92 had been replaced by the Model 1873 and even Henry rifles, usually much more likely to be appropriate.

Clint's switching in a spare cylinder on his Remington cartridge conversion (authentic, these did exist) in the middle of a gunfight was in a league of its own.

 

[rwsmith]

Flip fast...

As Alpo said, that was "Pale Rider".

By the time that came out in the mid-1980s, attempts at authenticity had noticeably improved. For example, in many westerns the previously ubiquitous Winchester 92 had been replaced by the Model 1873 and even Henry rifles, usually much more likely to be appropriate.

Clint's switching in a spare cylinder on his Remington cartridge conversion (authentic, these did exist) in the middle of a gunfight was in a league of its own.

Oh, what was that contraption Eli Wallach picks up in the gunshop with the lever on it. I looked up the makes the shopkeeper mentioned and was able to verify a couple that I could understand what he was saying.

What was the movie that had the Broomhandle Mauser that may have been authentic for the time as it was pretty late in the 1800s. "Young Guns"???

Flip fast through your thumbnails and it looks like a movie scene where they fast edit switching the camera to focus on different things. How to make a Sergio Leone movie.

 

[Ogandydancer]

There are only two of Eastwood's westerns that I care anything about; Hang-Em High and The Outlaw Josey Wales. The others I will wtch if there is absolutely NOTHING else on. However that scene in The Good The Bad and THe Ugly is on of my favorites also.

 

[500SNW]

What was the movie that had the Broomhandle Mauser that may have been authentic for the time as it was pretty late in the 1800s. "Young Guns"???

Joe Kidd was one film where they definitely had a Broomhandle Mauser. In that film it was equipped with a shoulder stock attachment..and the guy wielding it was a sharpshooter of sorts. Joe Kidd - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

 

[Alpo]

>What was the movie that had the Broomhandle Mauser that may have been authentic for the time as it was pretty late in the 1800s. "Young Guns"???<

Joe Kidd

Robert Duval was the bad guy. Carried a 1899 Savage. Wanted to kill a Mexican, and wanted Joe (Clint) to track him down.

One of Duval's men had the broomhandle and Clint took it from him.

 

[arch stanton]

Its one of my favorites as well. My oldest daughter loves it too. I was awful proud the the day we were in a restaurant and she says" Hey dad, that guy looks just like Tuco!" She was probably about 10 years old at the time.

 

[500SNW]

Its one of my favorites as well.

Yeah, I'd say so. Wasn't "Arch Stanton" the name on the headstone that was allegedly-supposed to contain the cache of coins?

 

[arch stanton]

Correct. The grave with no money. Just like me.