Saturday, July 5, 2025

Spaghetti Western locations for “I Want Him Dead”

 

We begin a new search for locations for 1958’s “I Want Him Dead” which was directed by Paolo Bianchi and starred Craig Hill and Lea Massari. The film opens towards the end of the Civil War with a man named Clayton and his sister Mercedes riding through the desert. They stop and make camp and Clayton, while drinking a cup of coffee hears a horse and then sees a riderless white horse running towards the camp then sees the reflection of a man coming up behind him on the cliff above with a gun about to shoot him in the back. Suddenly a man appears on the horse with a gun about to shoot Clayton, but he’s already drawn his gun and shoots the rider then spins and shoots the man behind him and a third man on the hillside beside him. Mercedes runs to his side and the opening credits begin.


The opening scene was filmed in Valle del Búho, Tabernas, Almería, Spain.


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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