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".
Django (1966)
7.3/10
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Franco Nero, Loredana Nusciak, Eduardo Fajardo
Aka 'Django Rides Again'. Franco Nero plays the stranger who arrives in a Mexican border town to settle a dispute - dragging a coffin that will give h... Read more
For a Few Dollars More ( Blu-ray ) (1965)
8.3/10
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski, Lee Van Cleef
In his career, Clint Eastwood has established a cottage industry of film genres; with Italian director Sergio Leone, their low-budget western collabor... Read more
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
8.3/10
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski
In his career, Clint Eastwood has established a cottage industry of film genres; with Italian director Sergio Leone, their low-budget western collabor... Read more
A Fistful of Dollars ( Blu-ray ) (1964)
8/10
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonte, Marianne Koch
The first in Sergio Leone's famous spaghetti western trilogy starring Clint Eastwood as the 'Man with No Name'. The film is a slick remake of Kurosawa... Read more
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
8/10
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonte, Clint Eastwood
The first in Sergio Leone's famous spaghetti western trilogy starring Clint Eastwood as the 'Man with No Name'. The film is a slick remake of Kurosawa... Read more