Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Spaghetti Western Location ~ Los Llanos del Duque


Llanos de Duque is a wide plain, of yellow-orange color, to the right of the road C-326 that from Almeria leads to Gergal (about six kilometers from the junction for Tabernas), with the Sierra Alhamilla in the background. The opening scene (with the opening credits) of "For a Few Dollars More" (1965) was shot there; a solitary rider, who, in the large field, advances slowly and is shot down by a rifle. This landscape is still intact today. In "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966) this vast open space represents the desert place where Biondo (Clint Eastwood), after having decided to dissolve the "society", abandons Tuco (Eli Wallach) on foot leaving his hands tied. It then appears in "The Last Tomahawk" (1965); "Ace High" (1968); "The Night of the Serpent" (1969) and in the finale of "Four of the Apocalypse" and in "Comin 'At Ya" (1981).



“For a Few Dollars More” 







“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”








“The Last Tomahawk"






“Ace High”









“The Night of the Serpent”







“The Four of the Apocalypse”
 





“Comin’ At Ya”

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