Spaghetti Westerns
Italian director Sergio Leone brought many profound changes with his brilliant low-budget "spaghetti" western films made in Europe (Spain and Italy) in the mid-60s.The changes were a new European, larger-than-life visual style, a harsher, more violent depiction of frontier life, haunting music from Ennio Morricone, choreographed gunfights, wide-screen closeups, and TV's Rawhide (Rowdy Yates) star Clint Eastwood as the mysterious, detached, amoral, fearless and cynical gunfighter (dusty, serape-clad, stubbly-faced, and cigar-chewing) and bounty hunter - 'The Man With No Name.'
These films resulted in a revival of the genre in the mid-to-late 1960s.
Right: Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone's magnificent "A Fistful Of Dollars".
The Great Silence (1968)
7.8/10
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Widely considered to be among the best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made, this bleak, brilliant, violent, snowbound, politically charged 's... Read more
The Great Silence (Blu-ray) (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Widely considered to be among the best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made, this bleak, brilliant, violent, snowbound, politically charged 's... Read more
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
8.5/10
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
A great Western by the great Sergio Leone. Henry Fonda is the ruthless psychopath, Jason Robards the half-breed falsely accused of a terrible slaughte... Read more
Any Gun Can Play (1967)
6.1/10
Director: Enzo G Castellari
Starring: Gilbert Roland, George Hilton, Edd Byrnes
A nameless, wandering gunslinger sets his sights on a ruthless Mexican bandit and the reward offered for his capture...dead or alive. Spaghetti Wester... Read more
Django Kill! (1967)
6.6/10
Director: Giulio Questi
Starring: Tomas Milian
AKA ' If You Live, Shoot!' This surreal Spaghetti Western finds Tomas Milian walking into a town in the midst of a bloody conflict between a group of... Read more
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( Blu-ray ) (1966)
8.9/10
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
Clint Eastwood's invincible "Man with No Name" teams with two gunslingers (Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach) to pursue a fortune in stolen gold. But team... Read more
The Hills Run Red (1966)
5.9/10
Director: Lee W Beaver
Starring: Dan Duryea, Henry Silva, Thomas Hunter
Aka "Un Fiume Di Dollari". As the Civil War draws to a close, two Confederate soldiers, Jerry Brewster (Thomas Hunter) and Ken Seagall (Nando Gazzolo)... Read more
Navajo Joe (1966)
6.4/10
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Fernando Rey, Tanya Lopert, Aldo Sanbrell, Nicoletta Machiavelli
AKA: "A Dollar a Head," "Savage Run." After his family and tribe are unmercifully slaughtered by a wicked outlaw and his underlings, Navajo Indian Bur... Read more
Some Dollars For Django (1966)
Director: Leon Klimovsky
Starring: Frank Wolff, Anthony Steffen
After years of killing and horror Django, a bandit and a bounty hunter wants to change his life and return to the straight and narrow. When he falls i... Read more
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
8.9/10
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood's invincible "Man with No Name" teams with two gunslingers (Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach) to pursue a fortune in stolen gold. But team... Read more