Spaghetti Western Thread

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

The main success of the Spaghetti Western in Italy started off with Sergio Leone and his admiration for the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo which Leone used as inspiration to make Fistful Of Dollars which spawned two follow-ups also launching the film career of Clint Eastwood. Sergio Leone is the best known director of Spaghetti Westerns but the other 2 Sergios(Sergio Corbucci & Sergio Sollima) made some important films in this genre as well. These films tended to have more heroes with shades of grey with over the top villains also way more action and violence than American Westerns had. Spaghetti Westerns had about a 12 year run of success from 1964 to about 1976.

Here is an interesting documentary on Spaghetti Westerns. Which of these films are your favorites?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Introduction

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Essential_Top_20_Films

 

[knowone]

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Essential_Top_20_Films

I can not believe 'They Call Me Trinity' is down at 50th! They need a recount. I actually like 'For A Few Dollars More' 3rd over
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY 1st, and I don't think ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST should be in the top 5.

 

[RJS12]

Didn't watch the Vid or click any of your links but bar none "Once Upon a Time in the West" is the best Sergio Leone western ever made. It's a long 2 hours and 55 minutes but worth every second.

https://youtu.be/8XkHsinz7oU


Claudia Cardinale as Jill McBain
Henry Fonda as Frank
Charles Bronson as Harmonica
Jason Robards as Manuel 'Cheyenne' Gutiérrez
Gabriele Ferzetti as Mr. Morton
Frank Wolff as Brett McBain
Paolo Stoppa as Sam the coachman
Marco Zuanelli as Wobbles
Keenan Wynn as Sheriff of Flagstone
Lionel Stander as the Barman
Woody Strode as Stony, first gunman

 

[wolverine83]

"Fistful of Dollars" was on last night, as a matter of fact. The "Man With No Name" Trilogy is brilliant westerns. I'm a huge Eastwood Western fan, period.

 

[assari]

I think that Bud Spencer and Terence Hill are the best or the worst actors in that field.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Hey Blondie...

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I like a lot of the Sergio Leone films [A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), and Duck, You Sucker (1971)] but like Sergio Corbucci's films [Django (1966), Navajo Joe (1966), Hellbenders (1967), The Mercenary (1968), The Great Silence (1968), and Companeros (1970)] almost as much. Sergio Sollima put out 3 very good flims [The Big Gundown (1966), Face to Face (1967), and Run, Man, Run (1968)] that are also worth seeing.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I've been a big fan of Klaus Kinski since I was a kid. Whether it's Aguirre The Wrath Of God, Nosferatu, or Crawlspace, no one plays a disturbed weirdo quite like Klaus. The Great Silence is a Spaghetti Western that I mention often to people. Kinski plays a villainous SOB and the ending is something you'll never forget. I feel this film is Corbucci's masterpiece.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I forgot to mention speaking of Klaus Kinski I just picked up And God Said to Cain and Shoot The Living, Pray For The Dead on DVD. Looking forward to seeing those 2.

 

[Chopper3000]

A Fistful of Travellers Cheques......

 

[Supafly]

I forgot to mention speaking of Klaus Kinski I just picked up And God Said to Cain and Shoot The Living, Pray For The Dead on DVD. Looking forward to seeing those 2.

The trick is to take out the "s" from "https". Then the youtube-links work. Ze Fly says, Dankeschön, Du Satan der Rache ^^

 

[Supafly]

Same here

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

The trick is to take out the "s" from "https". Then the youtube-links work. Ze Fly says, Dankeschön, Du Satan der Rache ^^

Thanks Fly. I was trying to figure out what I did wrong.

 

[Cuntblasphemy]

First post is way too long for my drunken mind but for other than the dollar-trilogy, Django (not the new one), Sabata and The Great Silence are great.

 

[Cuntblasphemy]

Oh and Unforgiven by Clint!