(08-22-2021, 07:00 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Link

Back when The Tonight Show was about the guest, not the host of the show.

Yeah, Johnny was the best ever.   

I've seen a few interviews with Clint Eastwood, where he talks about his experiences doing those Sergio Leone movies, and it's very interesting.  He brought his own wardrobe overseas, he went out and bought the little cigars himself, and they got around the Italian laws against working on the Sunday by claiming to be Jewish.  All the actors spoke different languages and half the time one actor wouldn't actually know what another actor was saying.  Stuff like that.  And he didn't know the movie had been released in the United States because they had changed the name from The Magnificent Stranger to Fistful of Dollars. 

When he said Fistful of Dollars was held up in the United States by litigation, it was because the plot was stolen, without permission, from the Kurosawa movie Yojimbo.   So Kurosawa sued Sergio DeLeone and I think it finally settled out of court for some sum of money.

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