Guadix, Spain is a city in the eastern part of the
province of Granada and is situated, at an altitude of 915 meters. It sits in a
basin at the foot of the northern foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It is located
55 kilometers northeast of Granada and 100 kilometers northwest of Almeria. Several
monuments and buildings have been used by cinema makers. The Guadix train
station appears in the first sequence of the film "A Bullet for the
General" (1966), when Lou Castel takes the train to Durango. The imposing
cathedral of San Torcuato, built of sandstone between the 16th and 17th
centuries on the rise in the back country in the Juan X-XI century, is used in
a counter-shot in the scenes of the arrival of Juan Miranda (Rod Streiger) and
his band at Mesa Verde in the film "Duck You Sucker" (1971). The
untimely sequence, when Rod Steiger attends, secretly, the shooting of three
men by a platoon of soldiers, and turned to Plaza de Santiago, location had already
been used in the first part of the film "Blood and Guns" (1969). The
Plaza de Santiago is bounded on the north by the steep street (Calle de la
Fuente, which descends from Calle Puerta Alta, located near the Alcazaba), it’s
walls are characteristically decorated walls white squares. Another sequence of
shootings of the mesa in "Duck You Sucker" and shot in the Azucarera
San Torcuato (at the Guadix train station), is an interesting example of the
industrial architecture of the beginning of the Noveccento (no longer used at
the time of the shooting of the film) , who comes to represent the station of a
Mexican city. A wonderful moving shot "traveling", from right to
left, shows the shooting of a large number of civilian prisoners massed in
ditches and hit from above by platoons of soldiers. These stone pits or
trenches were originally canals built to wash sugar beets.
Also for the same sequence of "Duck You
Sucker", between two large buildings of this sugar refinery is laid out a
few hundred meters of track and from the nearby station of Guadix was brought a
locomotive with some wagons in which a crowd of military and civilians is
pouring onto the various cars.
"A Bullet for the General" (1966)
“Duck You Sucker” (1971)
“Duck You Sucker” (1971)
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