Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale star in Sergio Leone’s loving tribute to the myth of the American West, which features Henry Fonda in a rare role as a cold-blooded villain.
Tag: spaghetti western
‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ on HBO Max
Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s classic Civil War epic, arguably the definitive spaghetti western.
‘Requiescant’ – The spaghetti revolution on Amazon Prime
Requiescant (Italy, 1967) is a revolutionary allegory in a spaghetti western, a genre that proved to be fertile ground for socio-political commentary such filmmakers as Sergio Solima (Face to Face, 1967) and Damiano Damiani (A Bullet for the General, 1966). In a 2010 interview, filmmaker Carlo Lizzani remarked that the Italian government used the leverage […]
‘Day of Anger’ – Lee Van Cleef rules on Amazon Prime
Day of Anger (Italy, 1967) is another reminder of why Lee Van Cleef became a major spaghetti western star. He doesn’t just dominate Day of Anger, he owns the film as a Frank Talby, a smiling gunman who rides into the thoroughly corrupt town of Clifton, Arizona (which, of course, is actually Almería, Spain) to […]
Sergio Corbucci’s ‘Compañeros’ on Amazon Prime
Compañeros (1970) is an ironic title, but then as a spaghetti western—a genre steeped in mercenaries and con men and double crosses—it would have to be. Swedish gun runner Yodlaf (Franco Nero), in Mexico in the heat of the revolution to sell his weapons to the highest bidder, and hot-headed Mexican peasant turned revolutionary officer […]