In his fourth western, Sergio Leone introduced a female protagonist into his previously all-male universe for the first time. Claudia Cardinale, who signaled to him that she had no interest in a typical secondary female role in the western, embodies a combative pioneer woman as former prostitute Jill, who refuses to be suppressed; in the end, she even outshines the myth of masculinity that generally characterizes the genre.
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