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Grande silenzio, Il (1968)

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• Jean-Louis Trintignant had agreed to do the film in order to help out the producer, who was a friend of his.
  
  
• The snow in the town of Snow Hill was created by gallons of shaving cream.
  
  
• Franco Nero was originally going to be cast as Silence, but he was busy working on another project.
  
  

• According to "Once Upon a Time in the Italian West" by Howard Hughes, Silence's distinctive rapid-firing pistol is the 1896 9mm Mauser Broomhandle.
  
  
• Jean-Louis Trintignant agreed to play in a spaghetti western under the condition that he did not have to learn any lines for the role. That's why the main character conveniently became a mute in the story.
  
  

• SPOILER: The downbeat ending was suggested by lead actor Jean-Louis Trintignant as shooting was about to wrap.
  
  
• SPOILER: Twenty people die in the final massacre.
  
  
• SPOILER: Silence kills eleven people in the film.
  
  

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