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".
Death Rides a Horse (1969)
7.2/10
Director: Giulio Petroni
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law
Bill (John Phillip Law) grows up to seek revenge on the gang that killed his parents. He meets up with Ryan (Lee Van Cleef), a veteran gunslinger seek... Read more
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
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
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
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
God's Gun ( A Bullet From God ) (1976)
5/10
Director: Frank Kramer
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone, Leif Garrett
Aka "A Bullet From God". Lee Van Cleef stars in a dual role as twin brothers. One of the brothers, a priest, is gunned down by the ruthless Sam Clayto... Read more
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
6.4/10
Director: Steve Carver
Starring: Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Leon Isaac Kennedy, L Q Jones, R...
Probably Chuck Norris' best film has him cast as the lone wolf Texas Ranger who goes mano-a-mano with arms smuggler David Carradine. This spaghetti-we... Read more
Man of the East (1972)
6.7/10
Director: Enzo Barboni
Starring: Gregory Walcott, Harry Carey Jr, Terence Hill
'He's a fun-of-a-gun!' or so the tagline promises. Terence Hill ("They Call Me Trinity") is back in his classic genre of comedy/western, this time as... Read more
Mannaja: A Man Called Blade (1977)
Director: Sergio Martino
Starring: Maurizio Merli, Donald O'Brien, Rik Battaglia
Despite coming along fairly late in the cycle, this spaghetti western is one of the genre's best. Maurizio Merli stars as Mannaja, a hatchet-wielding... Read more
My Name Is Nobody (1974)
7.5/10
Director: Tonino Valerii
Starring: Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, Jean Martin, Leo Gordon
An enjoyable western spoof with Terence Hill as an easygoing gunfighter who worships an aging Henry Fonda, a gunfighter who wants to retire. Produced... Read more