"I really wanted James Coburn, but he was too expensive... we got Clint for $15,000."

Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood are interviewed about working together on Leone's classic spaghetti western films of the 1960s, including A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Clint Eastwood: "My agent in Los Angeles called me up... and asked me if I would like to go to Europe and make an Italian-German-Spanish co-production of a remake of a Japanese film in the plains of Spain - and I said 'not particularly'."

"The script was in English, very strange English... a lot of the dialogue was a little bit on the shaky side. I liked it though and I felt that maybe a European approach would give the western a new flavour - because I thought it had been in a very stagnant period at that point."

Sergio Leone: "My films are basically silent films, the dialogue just adds some weight."


Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone interviews with Iain Johnstone.

Clips taken from The Man With No Name: Clint Eastwood.

Originally broadcast 23 February, 1977.



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