'You dig': Spain lures film fans to sets of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

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CARAZA, Spain (Reuters) There are two types of people in the world, Clint Eastwoods Man With No Name tells a rival gunslinger who has no bullets..

Volunteers in northern Spain have taken his words to heart, painstakingly tending the freshly dug graves on sets featured in Sergio Leones classic 1966 spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to make the area a pilgrimage site for movie fans...

In 2015, a local cultural association launched a sponsorship drive to reconstruct the fictional Sad Hill Cemetery, site of a famed showdown between Eastwoods Man with No Name and two rivals for a hoard of buried Confederate gold...

Garbed in a Union officers uniform, Sergio Garcia, a founding member of the Sad Hill Cultural Association, unveiled a plaque commemorating the hundreds of local extras who partook in the original production...

At the cemetery, a man stood in a ready-to-draw pose as his portable speaker blared Ennio Morricones Ecstasy of Gold earworm from the films unforgettable score...