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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid

Clint Eastwood cannon from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly traced to Spanish museum

Clint Eastwood in a cowboy hat and sheepskin vest loads a cannon with a ramrod outdoors
Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with the 1873 Manchester-made cannon. Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy

Six decades after Clint Eastwood nonchalantly used a cigar to light its fuse and fell a fleeing Eli Wallach, the Manchester-made cannon that appeared in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly has been rediscovered in a museum in south-east Spain.

The artillery piece was tracked down by the Sad Hill Cultural Association, a group of volunteers dedicated to restoring the graveyard near Burgos, northern Spain, built for the climax of Sergio Leone’s seminal spaghetti western.

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