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Not filmed in Arizona/Sonora

posted 15 years ago by wilmawilcat
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It would have been so easy to film in the true locations of Louis L'Amour's original story: Tucson, Arizona, southern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.

Gotta say, I am not a fan of so-called "westerns," filmed in obviously foreign countries. Anyone who knows even a slight bit of geology or ecology can see that everything is so wrong about the locations.

I am a fan of Louis L'Amour, though; I might buy the DVD anyway.

[–] Eightythreeyearoldguy 13 years ago

Does anyone know just why this was filmed in Spain?

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[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 13 years ago

That's where most of the spagatini-westerns were filmed; everything they needed, then, was there already as the various production companies had outposts just waiting, drooling, for more set ups.

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