Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was filmed in Spain, which provided authentic stand-ins for the American West. Spain's stunning landscape served as the backdrop for the film's iconic cemetery showdown. The definitive spaghetti Western, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly makes great use of its on-location settings.

Directed by Sergio Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a quintessential spaghetti Western film. Like other films in the popular genre, the 1966 epic was mostly filmed on location in various European countries. Although The Good, the Bad and the Ugly's filming locations aren't actually in the American West, Leone's classic captures a striking authenticity. Led by Western movie star Clint Eastwood as "the Good," Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad," and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly," the film sees the three titular gunslingers fighting over a buried cache of Confederate gold during the American Civil War.