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Tim Lucas
Fistful of Dollars had been inspired by a visit to a Japanese movie, namely Kurosawa's Yojimbo. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was inspired by a visit to a Leone movie, end quote. Screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni, who was additionally involved in that first sequel's overseas sales through United Artists, had attended a packed house screening with some colleagues, including Arnold and David Picker of United Artists, who were bowled over by it.
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Tim Lucas
may have been inspired by Mario Monicelli's 1959 film The Great War, which also happened to be a United Artists release. In brief, The Great War is a film starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman as two rogues conscripted into the Italian army in 1916 at the height of the Austrian-Italian conflict of the First World War.
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Tim Lucas
a film that had taken its template from a samurai film by Akira Kurosawa, namely The Seven Samurai, much as he, Leone, had done with A Fistful of Dollars, which had been inspired by Yojimbo. According to interviews with Wallach by Christopher Frayling, the actor was approached by Leone at a time when he was not too pleased with the roles that had been coming his way in films, which had been anything but heroic.
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