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SERGIO LEONE'S
DOLLARS TRILOGY
IN
ANDALUCÍA
THE
SPAGHETTI
WESTERN
The famous Dollars Trilogy, made up of; A Fistful of Dollars, Forr a Few
Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, could
uld be
considered as Leone’s personal canvas, which he covered with a
whole repertoire of narrative and aesthetic tools which hee then
went on to use, to create a different subgenre of Western cinema.
nema.
This subgenre was somewhat contemptuously referred to as
spaghetti westerns, however, when discussing the Western genre,
we can not fail to mention European Westerns.
SERGIO LEONE
AND
GRANADA
The Dollars Trilogy also left its mark on the province of Granada.
ada. At
the beginning of the film For a Few Dollars More, the La Calahorra
appears in a railway scene, transforming this location into the
fictional Tucumcari Station in New Mexico.
In The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Granada is used as the backdrop
for more of the total running time than in any of Leone’s other
previous films. The scene in which Sergeant Wallace (Mario Brega)
took Tuco (Eli Wallach) as a prisoner to the train, was filmed in the
La Calahorra Train Station with the participation of a considerable
number of extras. The following scenes, once the characters were
boarding the train and when the train was in motion, were shot on
the train track that connects the station to the Alquife mines in
Guadix, and in those same scenes we can see the famous and
cinematographic Baldwin locomotive, with the Sierra Nevada and
la Sierra de Baza creating a spectacular backdrop to this scene.
You can book tickets to visit the Locomotive at the Guadix District
Tourist Office.
Sergio Leone’s greatest contribution to the province of Granada
didn't come until 1968 with the shooting of his iconic film, Once
Upon a Time in The West, although that is another story in itself.