Stealing His Thunder
The then up and coming actor Clint Eastwood initially agreed to do the third film, but he said he was disappointed when he read the script. He discovered that he wouldn’t be the only star, rather he would be sharing the screen with two other major players: Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef (who actually already co-starred with him in ‘For a Few Dollars More’).
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But Eastwood didn’t want to rely on an ensemble cast that, in his opinion, was crowding him out of the movie. “If it goes on this way, in the next one, I will be starring with the American cavalry,” is what Eastwood reportedly said about the film. Thus, Eastwood had some demands if he was going to be in the final film.