According to TV Tropes, Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef were going to play henchmen in Once Upon a Time in the West and then get cut down by Harmonica (played by CHARLES BRONSON). That would have been awesome!
From "WhatCouldHaveBeen/Film":
• The three henchmen at the beginning of Once Upon a Time in the West were originally to be played by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach. Let me rephrase this: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly step into Once Upon a Time in the West, acting all tough and badass — and get shot down five minutes into the movie by the Harmonica. But since Eastwood was unavailable, Sergio Leone scrapped this
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