Spaghetti Western Trivia “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

 

Sergio Leone in an interview with Paese Sera on January 20, 1966, about his next western, “It’s a strange story, like all my other films, in fact. The protagonists are called the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Good will still be Clint Eastwood, the Bad Gian Maria Volonte and the Ugly Enrico Maria Salerno. I told you it was a strange story. It’s set during the American Civil War, in a Southern prison camp. The camps in the South were real concentration camps where people were exterminated. This is where my three characters meet, three slackers, thieves, pickpockets. They immediately recognize each other and think that the war isn’t for them, that this was in reality, isn’t about freeing slaves but about industrial interests, that the homeland, honor, borders, aren’t of any concern to them. And they escape to carry out a heist.”