The Contested Bridge

Location from The Dollars Trilogy by Sergio Leone / United Artists

A Civil War bridge over a river that Union and Confederate forces have been destroying and rebuilding for weeks — Tuco and Blondie blow it up to escape, twice.

Also known as: The Bridge, The Contested Bridge, The River Bridge

What They Know

• Has been destroyed and rebuilt multiple times by the Union and Confederate forces fighting over the crossing
• Blondie and Tuco blow it up to clear their escape route — the explosion ends a battle that was in their way
• They blow it up a second time, which is either pragmatism or commentary
• The battle for this bridge is the closest the film comes to showing the Civil War as actually terrible

Connections

• located_in — sad_hill_cemetery

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