Spaghetti Westerns - the Good, the Bad and the Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961-1977

by Thomas Weisser

Overview

Spaghetti Westerns—mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe—were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusing on heroes only slightly less evil than the villains. After a main filmography covering 558 Spaghetti Westerns, another section provides filmographies of personnel—actors and actresses, directors, musical composers, scriptwriters, cinematographers. Appendices provide lists of the popular Django films and the Sartana films, a listing of U.S.–made Spaghetti Western lookalikes, top ten and twenty lists and a list of the genre’s worst.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476611693
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	03/11/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	498
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Thomas Weisser is the editor and founder of “Asian Cult Cinema” magazine, as well as the author of numerous books on European and Asian cinema. He lives in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Craig Ledbetter ix
Foreword by Tom Betts xi

I. The Films 1
Introduction 3
The Films, A–Z (with cross references) 4

II. Personnel 361
Introduction 363
Performers 364
Directors 424
Music Composers 434
Script Writers 440
Cinematographers 455
III. Appendices 463
The Django Films 465
The Sartana Films 467
Anglo Counterparts 469
Top Ten and Top Twenty Lists with comments by William Connolly 473
The Worst Spaghetti Westerns 477

Select Bibliography 479
Index 481