Ponchos Ride Again

“Is that a real poncho?… I mean, is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?” —”Camarillo Brillo” by Frank Zappa In one of the few tender moments in the classic Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood’s hard-bitten, unnamed bounty hunter comforts a dying Confederate soldier. Having covered the young man with his coat, the Man With No Name takes the soldier’s poncho, which becomes an iconic prop in the rest of Eastwood’s “Dollar” Wester