Best of Lee Van Cleef
With his hawk-like nose and piercing gaze, Lee Van Cleef was often typecast as a villain in American westerns. It wasn't until Sergio Leone brought him to Europe that he found his true calling as the cool, calculated anti-hero.
Unlike the rugged drifter persona of Eastwood, Van Cleef brought a sense of refined danger and technical proficiency to his roles. This list tracks the best of his European career, featuring his iconic turns as bounty hunters, sheriffs, and gunmen who always get the job done.

Bad Man's River
1971Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
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God's Gun
1976Priest turned vigilante Father John hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton, who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the holy man.
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During a hold-up in the Wild West, Dakota kills a rich old Chinese man, Wang. Later, he is captured, sentenced, and is about to be hanged - and he never profitted from Wang's death, has he buried him with the photographs of his four widows, and a few worthless papers. Meanwhile, Ho comes to America in search of his uncle's fortune, and must get Dakota free, as he his the only man who can lead him to Wang's tomb. They open the tomb, retaking the pictures of Wang's widows. It happens he reads the papers and knows that Wang had one quarter of a map tattooed in each of his women's buttocks. Now, the difficult part will really start... Treasure hunt.
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Beyond the Law
1968A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
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Return of Sabata
1971Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
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The Grand Duel
1972A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
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Sabata
1969Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
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Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
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Day of Anger
1967A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
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The Big Gundown
1967Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
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Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
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While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
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