Once Upon a Time in the Italian West - The Filmgoer's Guide to Spaghetti Westerns

Covering every Italian Spaghetti Western--mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly--this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the implausible international fusion of producers, directors, actors and composers who created the mythical Spaghetti West under the most improbable circumstances. Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy led the field but many more major Spaghetti Westerns were made by important directors, including Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe , Carlo Lizzani's The Hills Run Red , Duccio Tessari's A Pistol for Ringo . Combining analysis, information and lively anecdotes, this popular guide explores all of these films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of the films' making, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information and many illustrations, including original posters and stills. Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Sundowner: An Introduction to European Westerns......Page 12 Spaghetti Western Top Tens......Page 22 1. 'Life Can Be so Precious'......Page 24 2. 'It's a Matter of Principle'......Page 40 3. 'A Man Who Hopes, Fears'......Page 52 4. 'Were You Ever Young?'......Page 63 5. 'I Was Away, Too Far Away'......Page 80 6. 'It's the Reason Why I Live, Why I Breathe'......Page 93 7. 'Time Was When We'd Pay a Dollar For His Scalp'......Page 104 8. 'In This Life, One Can Die Too'......Page 117 9. 'There Are Two Kinds of People in the World'......Page 129 10. 'We Got Problems... Even Up In Heaven'......Page 147 11. 'I Don't Even Respect the Living'......Page 159 12. 'The Dogs of Juarez'......Page 169 13. 'I See You're a Man of Your Word'......Page 181 14. 'All Men Must Die in Time'......Page 193 15. 'I'll Kill You Any Way You Want'......Page 205 16. 'Since When Are Wolves Afraid of Wolves?'......Page 216 17. 'You Play By the Rules, You Lose'......Page 228 18. 'A Wise Man Keeps His Distance'......Page 240 19. 'He Keeps Alive With His Colt.45'......Page 252 20. 'The Secret of a Long Life is to Try Not to Shorten it'......Page 263 Bibliography......Page 278 Index......Page 280

Covering every Italian Spaghetti Western-mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly-this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the implausible international fusion of producers, directors, actors and composers who created the mythical Spaghetti West under the most improbable circumstances. Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy led the field but many more major Spaghetti Westerns were made by important directors, including Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe, Carlo Lizzani's The Hills Run Red, Duccio Tessari's A Pistol for Ringo. Combining analysis, information and lively anecdotes, this popular guide explores all of these films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of each production, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information and many illustrations, including original posters and stills.

The ideal popular guide to the key Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the films that created the mythical Spaghetti West in the most improbable circumstances. Sergio Leone's'Dollars'trilogy is covered, with many more major and minor Spaghetti Westerns, including Sergio Corbucci's'Navajo Joe', Carlo Lizzani's'The Hills Run Red'and Duccio Tessari's'A Pistol for Ringo'. This popular guide explores the films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of the films'making, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information, box office fortunes internationally, with many illustrations, including original posters and stills. Though the westerns made by Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood in the mid-sixties are forever called spaghetti westerns, the Spanish contribution to the genre has often been ignored.