Other early films include The Lineup, The Misfits, The Magnificent Seven ( he portrayed the Mexican bandit Calvera ), Lord Jim as the General, a comic role in How to Steal a Million ( the latter two with Peter O ' Toole ), and perhaps most famously, as Tuco ( the ' Ugly ') in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

The South Korean western movie The Good, the Bad, the Weird ( 2008 ) is inspired by the film, with much of its plot and character elements borrowed from Leone's film.

Yojimbo was also the origin of the " Man with No Name " trend which included Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly both also starring Clint Eastwood, and arguably continued through his 1968 opus Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards.

Leone's next two films – For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) – completed what has come to be known as the Man with No Name trilogy ( a. k. a. the Dollars Trilogy ), with each film being more financially successful and more technically accomplished than its predecessor.

He rose to fame for playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ) during the late 1960s, and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films ( Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool ) throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

In 2005, following the restoration of Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, MGM re-released the film in the UK with more supplemental material, the aforementioned flashback scene reinstated and with a newly created 5. 1 surround soundtrack.

Outside of Mexico he worked on more than 60 other films, including the disaster movie The Towering Inferno and western El Topo, as well as Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.

Many war epics take place during World War II or the Vietnam War, with a notable exception being Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, set during the American Civil War.

He will be also remembered by his versions of classics such as the main theme to Sergio Leone's film The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, originally composed by Ennio Morricone.

Debuting with director Dino Risi, he then played some minor roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti western movies: A Fistful of Dollars, as Chico ; For a Few Dollars More, as Niño ; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as Corporal Wallace ; and also as a gangster in Once Upon a Time in America.

Other Spaghetti westerns, namely, Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) and Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ), contained more subtle political elements which were not the driving part of the main story.

Likewise, after 1965 when Leone's second Western For a Few Dollars More brought a still larger box office bonanza, bounty killer suddenly became the choice profession of Spaghetti Western heroes in films like Arizona Colt, Vengeance is Mine, 10. 000 Dollars Blood Money, The Ugly Ones, Cry for Revenge, Any Gun Can Play.

His career revival began when the young Italian director Sergio Leone boldly cast Van Cleef, whose career was still in the doldrums, as one of the two protagonists, alongside Clint Eastwood, in Leone's second western, For a Few Dollars More.

Spaghetti Westerns also began featuring a pair of different heroes – In Leone's film Eastwood's character is an unshaven bounty hunter dressed similarly to his character in A Fistful of Dollars who enters an unstable partnership with Mortimer, an older bounty killer who uses more sophisticated weaponry and wears a suit ( Lee van Cleef ).

Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.

The shoot-out that ends Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western " Dollars " trilogy is a notable example of how these elements work together to produce an effect: The shot selection goes from very wide to very close and tense ; the length of shots decreases as the sequence progresses towards its end ; the music builds.

With his roles in Leone's films, Van Cleef became a major star of Spaghetti Westerns, playing central roles in films such as Death Rides a Horse, Day of Anger, The Big Gundown and The Sabata Trilogy.

Sierra Leone's dense tropical rainforest partly isolated it from other precolonial African cultures and from the spread of Islam.

McCulloch reports that at that time, amongst Sierra Leone's largest present-day ethnolinguistic group, the Mende, who then had about 560, 000 people, about 15 per cent of the population ( i. e. 84, 000 ) were domestic slaves.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

Sir Albert's leadership was briefly challenged by Sierra Leone's Foreign Minister John Karefa-Smart, who questioned Sir Albert's succession to the SLPP leadership position.

Between 1991 and 2001, about 50, 000 people were killed in Sierra Leone's civil war.

The UN disarmament and rehabilitation program for Sierra Leone's fighters was completed in February 2004, by which time more 70, 000 former combatants had been helped.

UN forces returned primary responsibility for security in the area around the capital to Sierra Leone's police and armed forces in September 2004 ; it was the last part of the country to be turned over.

Sierra Leone's economic development has always been hampered by an overdependence on mineral exploitation.

The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces ( RSLAF ) is the armed forces of Sierra Leone, responsible for the territorial security of Sierra Leone's border and defending the national interests of Sierra Leone, within the framework of its international obligations.

The RSLN was an arm of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces that is responsible sea patrol of Sierra Leone's territorial waters.

Their primary responsibility is to protect and safeguard the territorial integrity of Sierra Leone's sea.

Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success.

The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films.

Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars and the following films in his Dollars trilogy created the Spaghetti Western as a novel kind of Western.

However in the following years the mode of cunning and irony became more prominent, not least under influence of Leone's next two Westerns, with their emphasis on unstable partnerships.

Before accepting a role as a villain in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry Fonda called Wallach and asked " What the hell does he know about the West?

The influence of these films is most apparent in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars ( 1964 ) starring Clint Eastwood and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing ( 1996 ).

It is speculated to have been Leone's last western and was to have starred Mickey Rourke and Richard Gere as the two main leads.

Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political center.

Freetown is one of Sierra Leone's six municipalities and is locally governed by a directly elected city council, headed by a mayor.

The city of Freetown is one of Sierra Leone's six municipalities and is governed by a directly elected city council, headed by a mayor, in whom executive authority is vested.

Queen Elizabeth II Quay is capable of receiving oceangoing vessels and handles Sierra Leone's main exports.

The protagonist Roland Deschain is a gunslinger whose image and personality are largely inspired by the " Man with No Name " from Sergio Leone's films.

One of his favorite roles is Max, the domineering gangster, in Sergio Leone's epic film Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 ).

Sierra Leone's music is a mixture of native and French, British, and Krio influences.

In this John Ford Western, there is a scene in which Constance Towers ' character falls asleep in a chair with a rifle in her lap, looking out for hostile Apache, just as Jill McBain does in Leone's film.

Currently, the Principal U. S. Official in Sierra Leone is Chargé d ' Affaires Glenn Fedzer Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the U. S. is H. E. Bockari Kortu Stevens and the Sierra Leone embassy is located in Washington.