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44. It was pretty obvious by watching the opening titles

Wed Jun 25, 2014, 09:08 PM

Jun 2014

The movie's original Italian title was " Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo". And it even shows each of those terms over pictures of Wallach, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. We all know Eastwood is "good", and Van Cleef is too much of a slick bastard to be "ugly" and definitely cruel enough to be "bad". Wallach was a scuzzy schemer, and certainly wasn't nearly as bad as Van Cleef.

I've never heard that story, but if so, then Wallach obviously didn't learn enough Italian while filming spaghetti westerns. He was probably joking, which seems like him, based on his acting personna.

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