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FILM 1282: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE
WEST
TRIVIA: Al Mulock, who played one
of the three gunmen in the opening sequence, committed suicide by jumping from
his hotel window in full costume after a day's shooting. Production manager Claudio Mancini and
screenwriter Mickey Knox,
who were sitting in a room in the hotel, witnessed Mulock's body pass by their
window. Knox recalled in an interview that while Mancini put Mulock in his car
to drive him to the hospital, director Sergio Leone said to
Mancini, "Get the costume! We need the costume!" Mulock, who had
appeared as the one-armed bounty hunter in Leone's "The Good, The Bad
& The Ugly", was wearing the costume he wore in the movie when he made
his fatal leap.
For the opening sequence where the
three dusters waited for the train, filmmakers lightly coated the face of Jack Elam with jam and
began filming close-ups while letting a fly out of a jar filled with flies,
attempting to get Elam's reaction as one would land on his cheek.
John Landis was one of the
stunt men on this film.
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