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Lee Van Cleef: Best of the Bad by Michael G. McGlasson Ebook Lee Van Cleef: Best of the Bad currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Lee Van Cleef: Best of the Bad please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback:::: 90 pages+++Publisher:::: BearManor Media (November 10, 2010)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 1593936176+++ISBN- 13:::: 978-1593936174+++Product Dimensions::::6 x 0.2 x 9 inches++++++ ISBN10 1593936176 ISBN13 978-1593936 Download here >> Description: He had the face of a true villain, chiseled to perfection. Director Sergio Leone, best-known for The Man With No Name spaghetti western trilogy, once described Van Cleef as having the face of a hawk; actor Eli Wallach called it wonderfully alive and full of wickedness. As an actor, Van Cleef portrayed some of the best movie villains of all time-Angel Eyes in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Frank Talby in Day of Anger. Although more than twenty years have passed since his premature death in 1989, Lee Van Cleef remains a cinematic icon for millions of film fans worldwide, and his legacy as the Best of the Bad is set in granite. Lee Van Cleef: Best of the Bad explores the life and career of this great actor, a man with unbounded talent and a heart of finely-polished gold. Through interviews and numerous sources, Best of the Bad reveals the real Lee Van Cleef and discusses his roles in For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Day of Anger, along with chapters on mythic archetypes and historical gunfighters and bounty hunters. Also included is a foreword by Mike Malloy, author of Lee Van Cleef: A Biographical, Film, and Television Reference. Great book for every Lee Van Cleef fan to have simply because it contains more information about actors little known life that hasnt been available before. My only qualm about this book is that the author did not research his information too carefully. The time frames of certain incidents in LVCs life are incorrectly labled. Also, McGlasson seems to put too much emphasis on the interview of Luciano Vencenzoni, by Cenk Kiral, in which Vencenzoni describes Van Cleef as being totally drunk when he first met Sergio Leone to discuss the part of Col.Mortimer in For A Few Dollars More.Since it is well known by many LVC aficionados that Vencenzoni has a penchant for exaggeration like his close friend Leone did, it is a little concerning that McGlasson would take so much of Vencenzonis words as fact. He should have put a disclaimer of some kind to indicate that Vencenzonis interview should be taken with more than just a grain of salt.Still the information regarding Van Cleefs Naval service is very interesting and never has been made public before to my knowledge. 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