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Exchange Art References Masterpost WIP: Spaghetti Westerns

Thought I'd just throw various character/actor visual references in one post. Characters are under the relevant fandom heading, actors have their own section. If not noted assume images are from the movie's IMDB photo section, if from another source I'll try to link to it directly, you might get better resolution at the source. 

Organization: Movies (alphabetical by English title) with sections for characters  (alphabetical by English character name), and a bottom section for good out of costume photos of actors (alphabetical by name). 
  • Death Rides a Horse
  • For a Few Dollars More 
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Actors section

Movies

Death Rides a Horse

Bill Meceita (John Phillip Law) 

Bill wearing his hat

further away shot of Bill
Source for both: meeee (screenshots) 

Bill with his Single Action Army, which I can identify thanks to the internet firearms database (source)

Bill smirking holding a Winchester rifle

Bill aiming his Winchester during the training montage.
Source for above 3: Internet movie firearms database

Bill in the process of getting buried in sand, currently up to his shoulders. unhappy about it. shot from between some bad guy's legs.

Bill in the cantina in El Viento.
IMDB

Ryan (Lee Van Cleef) 

Ryan in Bill's town, looking concerned that he's being stalked by assassins
Source: Me! (screenshot)

another concerned Ryan
Source: me! (screenshot)


IMDB

Ryan before his "duel" with Bill, shirt open, gun tucked into belt. extremely hot.
Source: DRAH color press photos collected on thebad.net

Misc: interactions, full-length, outfits 

Bill being held up by Ryan the first time.

Bill pointing a rifle at Ryan shortly after breaking him out of jail.
IMDB

3 screenshots pasted together showing Ryan having his chin tilted up by Walcott, then glaring at him
Source: me again (3 screenshots pasted together)

This whole interaction....
Bill says "You better shoot me."
Ryan tilts his head with amusement, "Do I have to?"
Source: me again (please help me. how do I acquire gif-making-from-blu-ray-on-computer software without spending lots of money or having watermarks.) 

For a Few Dollars More

Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef)

LVC as Douglas Mortimer, close up straight on shot.

3/4ths close up of LVC as Mortimer

Mortimer doing a jaunty little lean on the bar
Source for above 3: FAFDM color photos on thebad.net blog

Mortimer looking helpless
IMDB


Source: Internet movie firearms database 

Manco-"The Man with No Name" (Clint Eastwood)

Manco, non-squinting, looks 10 years younger

Manco, squinting in the sun, looks 10 years older
Both from IMDB-fascinating how different he looks with or without The Squint deployed.

 Manco and his horse from his intro

Manco looking over a saloon door in the rain

Close-up of his wrist brace: 
Manco loading his gun, Mortimer in the background.
Internet movie firearms database

Miscellaneous/interactions: 

Mortimer and Manco in Mortimer's hotel room discussing the partnership



Manco standing next to Mortimer after interrupting his one-sided duel with El Indio
Source for above 2: internet movie firearms database

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Angel Eyes/Sentenza (Lee Van Cleef) 

Angel Eyes looking menacing in his intro scene, shortly prior to murder.

Angel Eyes looking uneasily around in the final standoff
IMDB
I love how grimy and tired he looks in the final showdown, and yet he still seems to think (at first) that he's got the advantage. 

Black and white photo of Angel Eyes smoking. very dramatic.
Source: tumblr..? Can't find a better source for this one. Incredibly cool photo. I put this in the GBU section specifically because it does look like an in character Angel Eyes photo (has the black shirt and Wellington pipe and hair styling from the movie). 


Blondie-"The Man with No Name" (Clint Eastwood) 

Blondie with his poncho thrown over one shoulder
The classic Blondie Image. Has become the standard spaghetti western cowboy image, even. This version from IMDB. Note the jauntily cocked hips. 

Clint Getty images
Getty

Blondie at the beginning of the movie

Blondie asking a (naked, offscreen) Tuco to help him kill Angel Eyes' gang.

Blondie, hatless, looking scruffy
IMDB
I love how he runs the full gauntlet from nicely groomed to increasingly scruffy in this movie. 

black and white image of Blondie putting his neck in the noose.

color image, Blondie with his neck in the noose
Rotten tomatoes 

Blondie aiming his rifle for the final noose trick
Source: Internet movie firearms database

Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez (Eli Wallach)

Tuco in his shirt-open-to-navel desert outfit, now with added big straw hat
Rotten tomatoes

Tuco in the graveyard standoff.

Tuco interrupted in the bath
I love how simultaneously shocked/offended he looks at being interrupted in the bath. Alarm doesn't even register. Why would Tuco be scared, he's got a gun hidden under the bubbles and his very rude bath-interrupting would-be assassin is busy monologuing. 

Tuco in the graveyard standoff, shot showing more of his outfit.

Tuco looking dramatic in the monastery

Tuco with his shirt open to the waist examining the gun dealer's guns.

black and white image of Tuco tapping the barrel of his pistol to his lips to gesture silence
IMDB

Miscellaneous

Tuco holding Blondie at gunpoint with both of their guns

Blondie and Tuco watching a civil war battle

Blondie abandons Tuco in the desert

Blondie lying in the sand, Tuco menacing in the distance.

Actors

Clint Eastwood 

Getty Images photo of Clint in GBU
Getty. It is surprisingly hard to find free images of this man online, presumably and counterintuitively because he's so popular?

shirtless black and white image of Clint
IMDB

Eli Wallach 


Source: wikimedia/wikipedia page image, publicity photo for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Couldn't find any shirtless photos unfortunately! 

John Phillip Law 

black and white photo of a surprisingly non-wooden smile

JPL 3/4 view in a turtleneck

JPL shirtless with angel wings for Barbarella. Titular character (Jane Fonda) is caressing his pecs

another JPL with angel wings from Barbarella which shows more of him. He's touching fingers with Barbarella in this one. wtf is this movie? should I watch it?
Barbarella (1968). All 4 images from Rotten Tomatoes

Lee Van Cleef 

black and white photo of LVC
60's publicity photo from thebad.net's blog

Screenshot showing his missing fingertip (from the famous duel at the end of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) 
close up of Angel Eyes' hand creeping towards his gun
source: me (screenshot)
(IMDB backup if I ever change my url and don't remember to fix the broken link) 

LVC in a Speedo
Source: Venice film festival 1967 from thebad.net blog another image shows him holding a random person (fan?) bridal carry style. Strong... 

Black and white image of LVC shirtless with some stage blood scratches and holding a gun from The Stranger and The Gunfighter.
Source: Stranger and the Gunfighter press photos on thebad.net blog
Did they have him in a toupee for this movie..?