Witnessed the suicide of bit-part actor
Al Mulock on the set of the movie
Il était une fois dans l'Ouest (1968) ("Once Upon a Time in the West"). Mulock committed suicide on
by jumping from a hotel, on location in Guadix, Spain. Mancini, who was
serving as production manager on the film, was sitting in a hotel room
with
Mickey Knox, an expatriate American who had been hired by director
Sergio Leone as a screenwriter, and saw Mulock's body pass by their window.
Knox recalled in an interview that while Mancini put Mulock in his car
to drive him to the hospital, Leone said to Mancini, "Get the costume!
We need the costume!" Mulock, who had appeared as the one-armed bounty
hunter in Leone's "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly", was wearing the
costume he wore in the movie when he made his fatal leap.
