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In "For A Few Dollars More", Lee Van Cleef comes to town as Colonel Mortimer.



I always thought that Van Cleef was underrated. He was so much better than many of the roles he got in the old spaghetti westerns. But he shone in this one.

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Lee Van Cleef deals with professional killer "Banjo" in Sabata (1969).

This cheesy spaghetti western would suck, except that it's got Lee Van Cleef in it. And Linda Veras.

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In the 1980 cult martial arts classic "The Octagon", martial artist Scott James, played by Chuck Norris, takes on a whole training camp full of ninja terrorists.

Lee Van Cleef has a bit part in this one, too.

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In the 1962 movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, tenderfoot lawyer Ransome Stoddard, played by James Stewart, runs afoul of the local desperado bully, Liberty Valance played by Lee Marvin. Determined to stick it out, he eventually buys a gun to protect himself but has no idea how to use it. Here, gunfighter Tom Donophon played by John Wayne offers him a bit of instruction.



It's a great movie with an all-star cast. Valance's two henchmen are played by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Van_Cleef and Strother Martin. Donophon's right hand man was played by Woody Strode, a then-famous athlete-turned-actor. Other stars of the day such as Andy Devine, Edmund O'Brien, John Carradine and Denver Pyle can be seen in this one, too, along with a then-hot Vera Miles as the lady that Donophon pursued but Stoddard won.

And here's the epic gunfight from the showdown between Stoddard and Valance.



I won't spoil a great movie by giving too much away, but if you haven't seen it, you need to.

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Not sure who's the baddest, Clint Eastwood or Lee Van Cleef, so I'll leave it up to you to decide.





One thing's for certain--when they wind up grudgingly working together in For a Few Dollars More, it gets hot in a way that modern-day wanna-be's like George Clooney could never manage.

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Today's clip comes from the western Sabata, with Lee Van Cleef as Sabata, a gun for hire, and William Berger as Banjo, his deadly competition.
That Linda Veras looks pretty good, too.

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In keeping with the tradition of spending Saturday mornings at the Lair enjoying good westerns, here's Lee Van Cleef, one of the real western stars, taking down the villain who murdered his sister, with a little help from a friend.