The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – The Cemetery of Sad Hill

This scene is the dramatic climax of the film. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef arrive at a war cemetery where the $200,000, buried in a grave, will be disputed in a truel. The scene was shot in the Mirandilla Valley  (Santo Domingo de Silos). The set, a work of genius, was built in just three days according to Carlo Simi’s designs. Two hundred and fifty Spanish army soldiers recreated a superb circular cemetery, arranging more than 5,000 graves into a system of concentric circles and radii, surrounding a central thirty metre cobbled square where the final climax was to be filmed.