We continue our search for the filming locations for
"The Big Gundown". After Cuchillo avoids capture by Corbett in the
barber scene we see a wagon train of Mormons assembling in Willow Creek. After
receiving insults from the towns people the wagon train moves on out of town.
Right after Corbett arrives with a second horse and a body draped over the
saddle. He rides up to the sheriff’s office who recognizes him and asks what
bring him to town. Corbett tells him he’s brought in Cuchillo Sanchez, wanted
for rape and murder. The sheriff looks at the corpse and tells Corbett that
it’s not Cuchillo but Paco Molinas who looks much like Cuchillo. It seems
Molinas had escaped jail the previous week after being found guilty and had
been sentenced to hang. Disappointed Corbett tell the sheriff he’ll get a room
at the hotel and will leave town the next morning. The sheriff tell him the
hotel is closed but he cans sleep on the bunk in the jail or try the brothel
down the street. Corbett chooses the brothel.
This scene was filmed at Colmenar Viejo. This town was
seen in “For a Few Dollars More”, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and many
other Euro-westerns. It sits next to a Spanish military base. The set is now
part of a cattle ranch but several foundations can be found in the berry
patches that cover them and there is now a plaque and map showing what the set
once looked like.
For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti
Western locations please visit my friend Yoshi Yasuda’s location site: http://y-yasuda.net/film-location.htm
and Captain Douglas Film Locations http://www.western-locations-spain.com/
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