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In other Westerns which use this set,
and there were plenty,
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the town is teeming with life,
with marketplaces and wagons.
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Leone simply couldn't afford, on the
budget from his three coproducers,
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to have extras.
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Basically, it's the principals and
that's it, except for a couple of scenes.
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Some of the interiors
of the film were shot in Rome,
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and some of them
were shot at a Spanish museum
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which was called the Casa de Campo,
which is a museum of rural life in Madrid,
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where they had lots of ceramic pots
and wagons and Hispanic design.
:17:07
The courtyard and part of the interior
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were shot at the Casa de Campo,
and the rest was reconstructed in Rome.
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They started in Rome,
for the interiors, went to the set in Spain,
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the second unit went to Almería,
shot the Almerían material,
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and then postproduction
took place in Rome.
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This was a Carlo Simi interior,
which would have been shot in Rome.
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Mario Brega, playing the rather large
Mexican baddie, the sadistic baddie,
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had a huge afterlife in Italian Westerns,
where he was typecast in a similar role,
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and he ended up in The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly as Sergeant Wallace,
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and spaghetti buffs spot him everywhere.