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The death-rattle song from The Alamo.
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Leone wanted to use the theme
from The Alamo and from Rio Bravo,
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which was the same theme,
but they discovered it wasn't a folk tune,
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it was written by Dmitri Tiomkin
in the 1950s, and was in copyright.
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So they made this adaptation.
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And here's the Baxter clan,
waiting to visit the Rojo clan.
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Is this peace plan
worth anything, or isn't it?
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Consuelo Baxter, the Madonna
who runs the Baxter clan, effectively,
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because her husband isn't strong,
is played by Margarita Lozano,
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a Spanish actor who had made
her name in Luis Buñuel's film, Viridiana.
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And Leone was very fond of Buñuel's
work, so he cast her as Consuelo Baxter.
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Some of the shots which are made
day-for-night in this film don't work well.
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Some work, where you have torches
and it's obvious that Massimo Dallamano,
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the director of photography,
filmed at night.
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But some are done with filters, and it
shows what a low-budget movie this was.
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This is the second sequence
which has nothing to do with Yojimbo.
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The scene in the cemetery, this subplot
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of taking the bodies of the massacred
soldiers from the Río Bravo canyon,
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putting them into a cemetery
and pretending they survived.
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This was the second of Leone's inventions
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which wasn't based
on the Kurosawa original.
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Inevitably, it's with coffins,
crosses, cemeteries,
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the iconography of death, with
which he appears to be obsessed.
:33:39
A lot of graveyards
appear in Leone's Westerns.