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Article: On the graveyard shift.(Column)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 6, 2005
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QUESTION Was the final scene of Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad And The Ugly filmed in a real cemetery?
LEONE'S 'paella' Westerns were filmed mostly in Almeria in Spain.
For some scenes in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, including the shootout in the cemetery, locations were chosen north of Madrid.
Leone could not find a real cemetery that matched his requirements so he asked his Spanish chief of pyrotechnics to get him 250 soldiers from the Spanish Army to build one at Carazo near Salas De Los Infantes: it took two days.
The circular site of Sad Hill cemetery is still there, but it is now heavily overgrown and the headstones are ...