The first film in a trilogy by Gianfranco Parolini stars Lee Van Cleef as the titular gunfighter who thwarts an attempt by the leaders of a small Texas town to rob their own bank and use the money to buy land and sell it off to the railroad. Parolini largely eschews the usual spaghetti western tropes in favour of wildly over-the-top action and colourful characters. William Berger no stranger to the spaghetti western is the rival gunfighter, and comic spaghetti regular Pedro Sanchez aka Ignazio Spalla plays wise-cracking Mexican bandit, Carrincha.
Paving the way for the fagioli to come, Sabata is a fun, fast-moving romp with loud explosions and an arsenal of special weapons. Numerous other unofficial entries in the Sabata series also appeared in the early 70s. The first of the fagioli comedy-westerns stars blue-eyed heart throb Terence Hill real name Mario Girotti and former Olympic swimmer Bud Spencer real name Carlo Pedersoli as two brothers who come to the aid of Mormons facing a brutal land owner. A smash hit in Italy, it spawned an even more successful sequel in Trinity Is Still My Name , which became the highest grossing spaghetti western ever made.
Skip to content. A Fistful of Dollars The production company behind Yojimbo , Toho, received an out of court settlement after suing Leone for the unauthorized remake. However, perhaps the biggest reason for the film's popularity was the fact that it starred American actor Clint Eastwood. In A Fistful of Dollars , Eastwood plays an unnamed character popularly known to cinema fans as "The Man with No Name" who rides into a town controlled by two warring factions.
The Man with No Name takes advantage of the greed of the factions by playing against both sides in a clever and bloody scheme. A Fistful of Dollars quickly became the highest-grossing Italian film of all time, and Italian filmmakers now had a winning cinematic formula to follow.
One aspect that set Italian Westerns apart was their stark depiction of the Old West. They also pushed beyond American standards of violence, featuring characters who possessed both heroic and villainous traits. In a few in which Native Americans do appear such as Navajo Joe , they are usually not the film's antagonists. Many Italian Westerns were actually shot in Spain though some were also shot in Southern Italy to depict the dry climate of the American Southwest.
Old West sets from several Spaghetti Westerns later became tourist attractions in Spain. Many contemporary American critics used the Spaghetti Western label to deride the quality of Italian Westerns, as they had done before with Italian sword-and-sandal movies. Most Spaghetti Westerns did not receive critical acclaim in their time because of repetitive plots, relatively low production values, and poorly dubbed dialogue. But in the decades since, many critics have come to appreciate the raw, stylistic filmmaking that produced Spaghetti Westerns.
The film was the second Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Corbucci, who became recognized for his stark depiction of violence. The popularity of Django led to over two dozen unofficial "sequels" produced by various Italian filmmakers through the early s and Quentin Tarantino titled his Western Django Unchained in tribute to the Django character Nero also appears in the film in a cameo. Corbucci also directed the classics Navajo Joe , about a revenge-seeking Native American, and The Great Silence , about a mute gunfighter.
Hill also starred in the Spaghetti Western parody that featured some direction by Leone, 's My Name is Nobody , though unlike most Spaghetti Westerns it was mostly shot in the United States. Much like the sword-and-sandal genre before it, the Spaghetti Western gradually fell out of favor with audiences in Italy and abroad. Additionally, Clint Eastwood broke out of his television mold, just like he wanted to.
The movie became a defining film of what came to be known as Italian Westerns or Spaghetti Westerns. Eastwood became a huge star in Italy, and Leone rehired the actor to lead two more films that would make up The Man With No Name trilogy.
They also used geographic regions in Europe that mirrored those of the western United States. Instead of shipping the cast and crew overseas, Italian Western filmmakers used various locations in southern Italy and Spain. Most of the films take place in dry landscapes and deserts of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.
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