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In January 1966, Eastwood met producer Dino De Laurentiis in New York City and agreed to star in a non-western five-part anthology production named Le Streghe (" The Witches ") opposite De Laurentiis ' wife, actress Silvana Mangano.

Eastwood's nineteen-minute installment took only a few days to shoot, but his performance did not please the critics, one writing that " no other performance of his is quite so ' un-Clintlike ' ".

Two months later Eastwood began work on the third Dollars film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, again playing the mysterious Man with No Name.

Lee Van Cleef returned as a ruthless fortune seeker, with Eli Wallach portraying the cunning Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez.

The storyline involved the search for a cache of Confederate gold buried in a cemetery.

During the filming of a scene in which a bridge was blown up, Eastwood urged Wallach to retreat to a hilltop.

" I know about these things ," he said.

" Stay as far away from special effects and explosives as you can.

" Minutes later confusion among the crew over the word " Vaya!

" resulted in a premature explosion that could have killed Wallach.