Bert Reynolds starred in a western one, thanks to Clint Easto

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The year was 1966, and the actor Clint Eastwood had already established himself as a global movie star with a “hole of dollars”, directed by Sergio Lyon. Lyon’s movie has not yet been released in the United States, but “Fistful” was so successful that the actors in both America and Italy have noticed it. Eastwood had previously established himself in the TV series “Rawhide”, playing Rowdy Yates in 217 episodes of the show. “FistFUL” took the ion image of the already known Western hero and updated it in a more elegant way, Borrowing (severely and without permission) from “Yojimbo” from Akira Korosawa.

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The rest of the world immediately ran to immediately imitate the success of this movie, and the already profitable Westerners, nicknamed Western Spaghetti, continued to spread. At the time, the name of the young and next actor Bert Reynolds was following a similar professional arc to Eastwood. He had small parts in the prevailing Hollywood films, and played one of the main characters in a TV series entitled “Riverboat”. He also liked to praise from an Italian western flower under his belt, and even got advice in this sense from Eastwood himself. The two were friends. Eastwood Reynolds advised to search for a Western director named Sergio, knowing that he did a good job.

However, there was a little confusion. Reynolds has already found an Italian director named Sergio, and he has already learned that Sergio had lined up Western, but it turned out that Sergio was wrong. Reynolds spoke Sergio Corbucci, Director of “Django”, In addition to many Peplum movies and crime movies. Reynolds agreed to make Western Corbuchi, assuming that he was the one who made a “fist of dollars”. Reynolds unintentionally agreed to make “Navajo Joe”, a racist western, after that, the actor has long been considered one of his worst films. The story is detailed in the book Howard Hughes “Once in the Italian West: The Guide to the Cinema to the Westerners Spaghetti.”

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There is also some chaos at the end of Corbuchi’s production as well. Reynolds was looking for Sergio Leon, while Corbuchi believed he would be able to secure the talents of American star Marlon Brando. Corbuchi product, The late (unbearable) Dino de Laurentis, He gave him a text called “A Dollar A Head”, and his manager promised that Brando was already attached. Either de Laurentis was lying, or left Brando, leaving Corbucci to find a new pioneer. He said that Reynolds, in the hope that he would play the star in West anyway, was an appropriate alternative because he seemed to look like a little Brando.

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The resulting movie, “Navajo Joe”, a violent image of the Navajo man (Reynolds) fighting from an evil criminal called Duncan (Aldo Sanbrell) and his army of fools in order to protect a small village and take revenge on his village that is slaughtered. Navajo Joe wants a head for every series of thieves he kills. Yes, Navajo actor has played not preceded by Navajo character. This type of wealthy white-like non-black spirits was common in the world of Westerners.

Reynolds recorded in Hughes, saying he hated his costumes in “Navajo Joe”, and that he was strangely directed. He was ordered to deepen his voice, which he felt was not good, strange, was asked to shave his arms. Reynolds also hated a wig, and felt that he made him look like Natalie Wood. Later, the film was fluffing, saying that “it was very shocking that only appeared in prisons and aircraft because no one could leave. I killed ten thousand players, wore a Japanese spoil and a pseudonym in fear.”

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Despite the opinion of Reynolds, some Western spaghetti enthusiasts are still talking strongly about violence and gravel in “Navajo Joe”. It also includes an excellent degree of Ennio Morricone, the composer behind the west of Leone.

And all this because Reynolds confused Sergius.