That mystique was a marketing ploy.

We made a decision to only bring in material that had maintained its original look since used in his films. And we were lucky to find so much.

Sir Christopher first suggested the idea of this exhibit in 2000. We began working together on it in 2002 and worked on the project for three years, searching for material and oral histories from Leone's collaborators in Italy.

A lot of fans are curious about the origins of the poncho. In the original script, he'd taken the poncho from a man taking a bath by the side of a river. But that scene was never shot. So we have the script explaining it all - in Italian.