The score

Tim Lucas

which Ennio Morricone will incorporate into his score, replicated by human voices, this being the story of human jackals. Mulock's face looks dead, merciless, as he stares us down. For dramatic purposes, this location is supposedly a Texas-Mexico border town called Paso Negro. In fact, it was a small village called La Sartenilla in the municipality of Tabernas in Almería, Spain.

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Tim Lucas

And here's the great Eli Wallach as Tuco, the first, but in some ways third, of the film's trinity of heroes, classified as the ugly. He was apparently surprised while biting into a turkey leg, still clutched in one hand with a bottle of wine and a six-shooter in the other. Only five shots were fired before he crashed through the window to his freedom, so those bounty hunters couldn't have been able to fire more than a couple of shots before he put them down. The arrival of Tuco spurs the arrival of the music score, because Tuco is our story.

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Tim Lucas

I would say contrary to his nickname that he has the devil's good looks. Lee Van Cleef has the face of a satyr. There's a force of frankness in his eyes, a perfection about his hawk-like features that makes him almost uncomfortable to look at, and it's a quality that Leone milks to the breaking point in this sequence. This scene supposedly takes place at sundown, but just before Angel Eyes helps himself to his first spoonful of food, a rooster's crowing is heard on the soundtrack.

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Tim Lucas

If you've seen this film before, and obviously we have, there is a clue to the mystery of these proceedings in Ennio Morricone's score, which is serving us a dolorous suspense cue that actually lays out the bare bones of El Indio's pocket watch melody. We see sentry guards stabbed to death.

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Tim Lucas

This is a remarkable, half-lurching, half-meowing crime cue by Morricone. I imagine that it had some influence on Quincy Jones' later score for In Cold Blood. Speaking of In Cold Blood, Indio has a parting comment for the warden of this jailhouse.

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Tim Lucas

The cut is Hitchcockian in the sense that he would increase the suspense around a bomb by showing it hidden and suitably disguised, yet in plain view of the unsuspecting people around it. Nothing is going to explode here, at least not yet. Leone is giving us a dose of irony, especially when we recognize Lee Van Cleef's voice on the soundtrack, which means that Colonel Mortimer was being served from the liquor cabinet of the very safe he is seeking to identify as Indio's next target.

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To begin, composer Monty Norman recalls seeing Maurice Bender's titles for the first time. At the time, I wasn't too happy with what Maurice was doing to my James Bond theme because he was pulling it around. He was starting in the middle and putting another bit here. And I thought at the time, he's going to ruin this number and it's never going to be heard of. It's never going to be a hit, this number.

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the sides so that we could put a sheet of glass or perspex over Sean's shoulder and have the tarantula go over the glass. We did that and then Terence wasn't satisfied with that and then we had Bob Simmons do it again with the tarantula actually climbing over his body. Composer Monty Norman's music adds to the mood of the scene.

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way I thought somebody who's Chinese would live on the island. While James Bond waits for Professor Dent to arrive, he puts on a record with an instrumental version of Underneath the Mango Tree, a tune which will be used later to introduce Honey Rider. Monty Norman remembers composing the score on location in Jamaica. I met Chris Blackwell

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So Eddie wrote out Criswell's lines on big pieces of cardboard. But Criswell couldn't read the cue cards without his glasses on. So he looked kind of cockeyed, which pissed off my cameraman, Bob Caramico. He told him Cris watching you is acting like watching paint dry. And Eddie was getting drunk all the time. Bob Dertano told me not to lend Ed any money because you'd never see him again. Ed would get drunk. Well, Eddie naturally...

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Ed is like in front of him with the cue cards. Yeah. With the dialogue on the cards. And you can see he's reading it. Yeah, I don't know if I read that quote. Is that too much for him to memorize a few pages? I don't know if I read the quote, but Steve Apostolof is still angry now when he talks about this. Anyway, everybody, thanks for listening.

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