Clint Eastwood in the 1960s and Pam. Filming began at the Cinecittà studio in Rome in mid-May 1966, including the opening scene between Clint and Wallach, when The Man With No Name captures Tuco for the first time and sends him to jail. The production then moved on to Spain's plateau region, near Burgos in the north, which would double for the extreme deep south of the United States. The western scenes were again shot in Almeria in the south. This time, the production required more elaborate sets, including a town under cannon fire, an extensive prison camp and an American Civil War battlefield. For
SS Almeria Lykes (1940) Passing Gibraltar on 10 August, the convoy became Operation Pedestal, consisting 14 merchant ships escorted by a total of 23 warships at various times from 2 August. On 12 August, gunners on board "Almeria Lykes" shot down two enemy aircraft. Also on that day, an unexploded torpedo mine was caught on the bridge of "Almeria Lykes". It was safely deposited into the sea. On 13 August, "Almeria Lykes" was torpedoed at 3:14 AM by German E boat "S-36" and later, at 3:40 AM, by Italian MAS 554 off Kelibia, Tunisia. She had been under attack for 60 hours. "Almeria Lykes"