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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dalya Alberge

Sergio Leone, ‘the Man with No English’, mimed directions to spaghetti western star Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood on the set of A Fistful of Dollars with director Sergio Leone standing behind him also in a poncho
Clint Eastwood on the set of A Fistful of Dollars with director Sergio Leone behind him, also in a poncho. Photograph: Cineteca di Bologna

They made their names with A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a series of spaghetti westerns that became classics of 20th-century cinema. But the Italian director Sergio Leone had such a poor grasp of English that, between takes, he would repeatedly rely on the words “watch me” before miming whatever he wanted from his leading man, Clint Eastwood, and his other actors.

Now previously unpublished photographs show him doing just that, acting out particular scenes.

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