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Also Known As Italian western • western all’italiana

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Eli Wallach as Tuco, holding a revolver and smiling, sits beside Clint Eastwood, both wearing wide-brimmed hats in a desert scene from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Claudia Cardinale as Jill McBain in Once Upon a Time in the West, wearing a dark dress and lying on wooden planks in a dusty, Western landscape.
Director Sergio Leone, wearing glasses, gives instructions to Clint Eastwood and Margarita Lozano during a dramatic scene on the set of A Fistful of Dollars.
A Fistful of Dollars
Uma Thurman as the Bride in a yellow jumpsuit stands with a sword among defeated opponents in an action scene from Kill Bill: Volume 1.
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Clint Eastwood wearing a light suit and olive shirt with tie, standing outdoors at the Cannes Film Festival.
Clint Eastwood
American actor and director
Portrait of movie director Sergio Leone with large glasses, a full gray beard, and slicked-back hair, looking slightly to the side.
Sergio Leone
Italian director