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Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone's 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ on Paramount+ and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, Kanopy, Paramount+, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD, western 01/10/2023 Sean Axmaker

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s classic Civil War epic, arguably the definitive spaghetti western.

Charles Bronson in Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, National Film Registry, Paramount+, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD, western 11/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

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.

Lou Castel stars in Carlo Lizzano 's cult spaghetti western

‘Requiescant’ – The spaghetti revolution on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Spaghetti Cinema, western 01/29/2017 Sean Axmaker

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 […]

Lee Van Cleef stars in Tonino Valerii 's spaghetti western 'Day of Anger'

‘Day of Anger’ – Lee Van Cleef rules on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Spaghetti Cinema, western 01/15/2017 Sean Axmaker

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 […]

Fernando Rey and Tomas Milian in Sergio Corbucci's 'Compañeros'

Sergio Corbucci’s ‘Compañeros’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Spaghetti Cinema 10/25/2016 Sean Axmaker

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 […]