1:17:01
as the cheapest actor. There were
lots of squabbles about money.
1:17:05
The money ran out three-quarters
of the way through shooting,
1:17:08
because the Spanish coproducer,
1:17:10
whose name appears on one of the
gravestones in the cemetery as an in-joke,
1:17:16
the Spanish coproducer
hadn't paid his money to the technicians,
1:17:20
so the technicians
arrived on set at Manzanares
1:17:23
and removed all the windows and frames.
1:17:25
They arrived and there were
no windows, so they couldn't shoot.
1:17:29
At which point Papi and Colombo came
from Rome with a suitcase full of money,
1:17:33
which wasn't legal at the time,
cash money,
1:17:36
crossed the border,
paid off the technicians,
1:17:38
the windows went back in,
and the movie could continue.
1:17:42
In fact, Leone fell out
very seriously with Papi and Colombo
1:17:45
cos he felt he was owed money
for this film, which he never received.
1:17:50
They cross-collateralised
with the next movie.
1:17:53
"We'll pay if you make another movie."
1:17:55
At which point Leone threw his lot in with
the entertainment lawyer Alberto Grimaldi,
1:18:01
who became the producer of his second
and one or two of his subsequent films.
1:18:06
This sequence was the second
one that was shot by Franco Giraldi,
1:18:10
assistant director,
who shot the Río Bravo canyon.
1:18:13
The burning of the Baxter
house was shot by Giraldi,
1:18:17
with the cutaways done by Leone.
1:18:20
And the editor, Roberto Cinquini,
pieced it together from little pieces of film
1:18:26
with the close-ups
and the reflection of the flames,
1:18:29
in order to construct this extraordinary
scene of the baddies roaring with laughter
1:18:34
as they massacre the Baxter clan.
1:18:37
More sadism,
and it goes on, and it goes on.
1:18:40
A lot was cut from the British print,
though it got an X certificate.
1:18:44
The censor couldn't take it.
The enjoyment, the massacre.
1:18:48
The fact that it's so protracted.
1:18:50
So Cinquini does the editing, and
Franco Giraldi does the shooting for this,
1:18:56
while Leone was busy with Eastwood.