Location: Manzanares el Real - The Widow's Land

 

Located near Madrid, Manzanares el Real was featured in several LVC westerns; including The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The Big Gundown, and Captain Apache.  Today the location remains mostly unchanged, despite the numerous housing developments surrounding it.

 

This entry will focus on the location as featured in The Big Gundown, where is appeared as the land the widow's house resided on.

 

 

Establishing shot of the house and land

 

 

Corbett arrives and is taunted by the Widow's men 

 

 

Naturally, this will not stand... 

 

 

 ...and they are shot.

 

 

 The Widow arrives

 

 

The next scenes alternate between Corbett and the widow inside the house (which no longer exists), and Cuchillo outside, as the remaining widow's men plan an ambush.  Corbett and Cuchillo manage to defeat everyone, leaving the widow alone on the land.

 

After killing everyone, Corbett rides off.

 

 

Additional photos of the location below (click to enlarge!)

 

 

 

 



GBU50: Rare Photos - Reporting back to Baker

This is part 2 of a 6 part series of a rare The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly photo series.  These rarely seen photos are originally from the collection of Edoardo Ezio Pizzi, the man who handled all publicity and press relations for Unidis and Jolly Films.

Click to enlarge!

 

 

 

 

 

 



Location: Tabernas - Beyond the Law Money Hide

The area known as Las Salinillas within the Spanish desert of Tabernas has been featured in countless Spaghetti Westerns, and many LVC westerns including The Big Gundown, Death Rides a Horse, Sabata, and Beyond the Law. 

While much of Beyond the Law was shot in Italy, a handful of sequences were shot in Tabernas.  This entry will focus on a scene early in the film, in which the LVC character of Cudlip hides the money from a recent heist, and is introduced to Novack, played by Antonio Sabato who is searching for the money.

The location itself remains very much the same today nearly 50 years later.

 The rock formation that is the establishing shot for the scene

 

 Cudlip looks to hide the money

 

 The money is hidden

 

Cudlip spots Novak

 



 The two meet, and an unlikely friendship is formed.

 

 

 

This entire sequence was filmed just below the infamous "tank cliff" from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  See pic below (click to enlarge)-

 

 

 

 

Additional pictures from the location (click to enlarge)-