The “ridiculous” 1976 western Clint Eastwood couldn’t stand: “It wasn’t a good script”Following several uncredited movie appearances, Clint Eastwood established himself as a western star with his leading role in the television series Rawhide. Leone saw Eastwood as “a block of marble”, viewing him as the perfect anchor for gun-barrel plots. As the director quipped, “More than an actor, I needed a mask, and Eastwood, at that time, only had two expressions: with hat and no hat.” Eastwood added, “It wasn’t a good script and they obviously felt so, too.” In his opinion, the script simply wasn’t good enough, resulting in its rather tragic failure.