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.

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.

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.

However, the two made amends and reconciled before Leone's death.

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.

Margheriti also collaborated on the special effects in two Italian cult films which he did not direct, Sergio Leone's " Fistful of Dynamite " ( 1971 ) and Aldo Lado's " The Humanoid " ( 1979 ).

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.

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.

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.

Leone's films and other " core " Spaghetti Westerns are often described as having eschewed, critizised or even " demythologized " many of the conventions of traditional US Westerns.

For many critics, Sergio Leone's films were part of the problem.

Leone's Dollars Trilogy ( 1964 – 1967 ) was neither the entirety nor the beginning of the " spaghetti Western " cycle in Italy, but for Americans Leone's films represented the true beginning of the Italian invasion of their privileged cultural form.

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.

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 ).

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.

He appeared in several Italian films, including Hands Over the City ( 1963 ) and Lucky Luciano ( 1974 ) ( both Francesco Rosi's ), and also Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite ( 1971 ).

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.

Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in some of the most acclaimed Italian and European films of the period, including Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli ( Rocco and His Brothers 1960 ) and Il Gattopardo ( The Leopard, 1963 ), Philippe de Broca's Cartouche ( 1963 ), Federico Fellini's Otto e mezzo ( 8½ 1963 ), and Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ).

Many other films have paid tribute to Leone's film.

In addition, some of the early epic westerns, such as The Magnificent Seven and Leone's spaghetti westerns, were influenced by Akira Kurosawa's samurai films, such as Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Sanjuro.

Leone's films were made like that because he wanted the music to be an important part of it, and he often kept the scenes longer simply because he didn't want the music to end.

The film drew heavily from the conventions of Western films, especially Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, such as Once Upon a Time in the West, and John Sturges ' film The Magnificent Seven, itself being a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.

The man with no name () is a stock character in Western films, but the term usually applies specifically to the character played by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's " Dollars Trilogy.

Leone's collaborators Donati and Vincenzoni, noting the director's frequent embellishment of the facts concerning his films, claim that Peckinpah did not even consider it-Donati claimed Peckinpah was " too shrewd to be produced by a fellow director ".

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 ).

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.

Some of the locations used previously featured in Leone's Dollar Trilogy films ; for example, the Almería Railway Station, used for the train sequence in For a Few Dollars More, returns in this film as Mesa Verde's station.

Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Pervirella, and many others.

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.

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.

Furthermore, by far the most commercially successful of this lot was Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars whose innovations in cinematic style, music acting and story decided the future for the genre.

That material had formed the basis for Kurasawa's Yojimbo, which in turn was the basis for Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un pugno di dollari ), countless others have used its premise since.

The Magnificent Seven was based on Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa whose Yojimbo ( The Bodyguard ) was the inspiration ( and later, litigation ) behind a Leone's A Fistful of Dollars.

Other movies that may be considered archetypes of the sub-genre include The Searchers with John Wayne, The Magnificent Seven, Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, The Shootist with John Wayne, and How the West was Won.

A Fistful of Dollars became the first film to exhibit Leone's famously distinctive style of visual direction.

Ennio Morricone composed the film's soundtrack as he did for A Fistful of Dollars: before production had started, under Leone's explicit direction.

in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy.

In Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly you still find the scheme of a pair of heroes vs. a villain but it is somewhat relaxed, as here all three parties were driven by a money motive.

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.

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.

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.