Continuing with Spaghetti western locations from “Duck
You Sucker”. The cave scene where Sean finds his followers and family massacred
was filmed are the caves of Palazzolo in Italy, were transformed into the caves
of San Isidro, a refuge chosen by the rebels to escape the Mexican government
troops, but which actually becomes a death trap. Having decimated the enemy
army, through the mining of the bridge, John and Juan finally reach the hideout
of the revolutionaries, but waiting for them is a sad discovery. The rebels,
many of whom are themselves political prisoners released reluctantly by Juan
from The Bank of Mesa Verde where they were locked up, were brutally massacred
by enemy troops. Among the victims was the father of Juan, and all his five
children. This is one of the most intense and harrowing sequences of the film,
as well as more significant (the massacre of his family finally convinces Juan
to join the cause of the revolution), with the famous tracking shots of Leone
showing tangles of dead bodies piled up in the hollows of the caves . A
sequence made even more poignant by the sweet music of Morricone and
photography that makes it warm and enveloping nearly unrecognizable the
charming landscape of the Castelli Romani. In the caves was to be another
sequence, cut during the final assembly, showing the revolutionaries meeting
confused and worried after the attack at the bridge.
This grotto is located near the outskirts of Rome.
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