THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY: Cortijo Los Frailes

Rated R; 161min; Director:Sergio Leone (1966)  

Location: Rolling Roadshow

This show is a part of the The 2008 Rolling Roadshow Tour Signature Series, Click to See More

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MGM Channel and Teuve present
The 2008 Rolling Roadshow Tour
The Sergio Leone Edition
Every summer, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema takes to the road, departing from Austin, Texas on a whirlwind tour and hosting free 35mm screenings of famous movies in famous places. Known as The Rolling Roadshow Tour, it has been to the Field of Dreams in Iowa to show Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner live in person, Devil's Tower in Wyoming for a screening of Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind and Alcatraz Island for a screening of Escape From Alcatraz. In 2008, The Rolling Roadshow Tour is paying tribute to one of the most influential film series of the modern age, Sergio Leone's "dollars" trilogy:

June 6: A Fistful of Dollars
June 7: For a Few Dollars More
June 8: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

All screenings will be held on location where the films were shot, in the Almeria region of southern Spain. Admission is free to all screenings. The films will be screened in 35mm in English with Spanish subtitles.

VIP Tickets
Admission is free to the screenings and it's first come, first serve. You can, however, purchase a VIP ticket for 80 Euros which includes a chair at each of the three screenings, the trio of hand-silkscrened art posters, one for each screening (retail 60 Euros) and a guaranteed spot at each of the three after-parties. VIP tickets are limited to 100, and we expect them to sell out quickly. Tickets will not be mailed out, but rather we will have a will-call list at screening location where you can also pick up your posters.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
It only took a year for Leone and company to complete the outrageously ambitious finale to their trilogy, and this film will very likely go down in history as one of the finest westerns ever made. A raging, roaring epic of blood, dust and gunpowder, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly follows The Man With No Name on a deadly trek through everything from open desert to thunderous Civil War combat! This unparalleled film features the return of For a Few Dollars More's Lee van Cleef, as well as a career-best performance from revered character actor Eli Wallach. And as if all this wasn't enough, its echoing theme has become the permenent anthem for western film enthusiasts across the globe!

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: The Location
The film will be screened in front of the Cortijo Los Frailes in Cabo de Gata, minutes away from Los Albaricoques. The building building was used in THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY as the monestary of Tuco's brother and was also used as Indio's hideout in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE.

Quentin Tarantino, previously scheduled to be in attendance has cancelled and will not be introducing the shows. He has cleared all appearances to begin preproduction on his new feature, INGLORIOUS BASTARDS. The films will now be introduced by regional Leone experts.

View a map of all of the Rolling Roadshow locations

The Leone "Dollars" Trilogy
In 1964, Sergio Leone, an assistant director of Italian "sword and sandal" movies travelled to the Almeria region of Spain to shoot a small film based on Akira Kurosawa's samurai adventure Yojimbo. The leading man was an unknown American bit-part television actor who at 34 years old was well past his matinee-idol potential. The film, of course, was A Fistful of Dollars; the actor, Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood skyrocketed to international stardom to become an A-list actor, and Sergio Leone is now considered by many film historians to be one of the most influential directors of all time. Few films have reshaped the visual style of cinema more than Sergio Leone's quintessential "Spaghetti Western" trilogy, and even fewer films elevate the filming location to the status on par with lead actor. Like John Ford's American southwest, Leone's Almeria region plays a vital role in shaping the emotion and spirit of his films. If you are fan of Leone and his films, we encourage you to join us in southern Spain this summer for the ultimate Spaghetti Western experience, the Rolling Roadshow Tour: the Leone Edition. Following each of the free screenings the Rolling Roadshow Tour and MGM will host an after-party where we can share experiences and toast the legend of a true maestro of cinema, Sergio Leone.

In celebration of this once-in-a-lifetime event, the Alamo Rolling Roadshow and Mondo Tees have commissioned a trilogy of beautiful silkscreened posters just for these shows:

Click HERE to purchase a complete set, or pick the up individually at Mondo Tees' website!

If you are planning to visit the area and stay for a while in the Almeria region, contact Tuco Tours, who offer tours of all of the Sergio Leone locations.

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Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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