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But spaghetti Westerns didn’t just keep moving into darker and darker terrain. The 1970 film They Call Me Trinity made sure of that.
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars.” On seeing Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo,” Leone thought it would make a great western.
If you enjoy Clint Eastwood’s screen presence and fancy a spaghetti Western, we have a real treat in store for you.
Actor Tony Musante recently described the making of Sergio Corbucci's 1968 Spaghetti Western "The Mercenary" as a series of revelations and discoveries—beginning with the 11th-hour announcement ...
The most celebrated variation is the Spaghetti Western – primarily Italian, though often in collaboration with Spain, France or Germany. The best known are Sergio Leone's Dollar Trilogy (A ...
There’s a long history of Westerns borrowing from samurai cinema and the other way around, with Akira Kurosawa studying the work of John Ford, which in turn led to many of Kurosawa’s movies to ...
Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and the soundtracks such as classic Hollywood gangster ...
The Spaghetti Western genre refers to a wave of films produced in Italy — as well as a few other European countries — by filmmakers like Sergio Leone between the 1950s and the 1970s.