Spaghetti Western, in Europe more often called Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced by Italian studios, usually in coproduction with a Spanish partner. A genre (ˈʒɑːnrə also /ˈdʒɑːnrə/ from French "kind" or "sort" from Latin: genus (stem gener-) is a loose set The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had discovered the medium when Pope Leo XIII was filmed The art of motion-picture making within the nation of Spain or by Spanish filmmakers The typical team was made up of an Italian director, Spanish technical staff and a fifty-fifty cast of Italian and Spanish actors sometimes surrounding a falling Hollywood star. United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century For other uses including various songs titled "Movie Star" see Movie star (disambiguation.
The films were primarily shot in the Andalucia region of Spain, and in particular the Tabernas Desert of Almería, because it resembles the American Southwest. Andalusia (Andalucía is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in terms of land area The Tabernas Desert is a Desert in Spain. It is located in the province of Almería about 30 kilometers (20 miles north of the capital Almería Almería is a province of southern Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Granada, Murcia, and the Mediterranean Sea. The Southwestern area of the United States could be defined as the states west of the Mississippi River, with the qualification of a certain northern limit such as the 37 (A few were shot on Sardinia. Sardinia (sɑrˈdɪnɪə Sardegna Sardigna or Sardinnya is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily) ) Because of the desert setting and the readily available southern Spanish extras, a usual theme in Spaghetti Westerns is the Mexican Revolution, Mexican bandits, and the border region shared by Mexico and the US. The Mexican Revolution (Revolución Mexicana was a major armed struggle that started with an uprising led by Francisco I The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
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Originally Spaghetti Westerns had in common the Italian language, low budgets, and a recognizable highly fluid, violent, and minimalist cinematography that eschewed (some said "demythologized") many of the conventions of earlier Westerns — partly intentionally, partly as a result of the work being done in a different cultural background and with limited funds. Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design especially Visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features The term was originally used disparagingly, but by the 1980s many of these films came to be held in high regard, particularly because it was hard to ignore the influence they had in redefining the entire idea of a western.
Paradoxically enough, the movie that qualifies as the very first spaghetti-western, The Savage Guns / Tierra brutal (1961), showed no Italian involvement at all, being a British-Spanish coproduction; but it was shot in Almería and featured the absurdly heterogeneous cast (in this case, lead by ex-Hollywood Americans Richard Basehart and Alex Nicol, and the Spanish folklóricas Paquita Rico and María Granada) that later became typical of any film of that kind; the whole being directed by an English specialist in horror B movies, Michael Carreras. The Savage Guns ( Tierra brutal) is a 1961 Eurowestern film, a joint production by the United Kingdom and Spain. John Richard Basehart ( August 31 1914 - September 17 1984) was an American Actor. Alex Nicol ( January 20, 1916 - July 29, 2001) was a film actor of the 1950s 1960s and 1970s Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double Michael Carreras (b December 21, 1927 in London, England, d April 19 1994 in London was a British Film
The best-known and perhaps archetypal Spaghetti Westerns were the Man With No Name trilogy (or the Dollars Trilogy) directed by Sergio Leone, starring then-TV actor Clint Eastwood and with musical scores composed by Ennio Morricone (all of whom are now synonymous with the genre): A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). The Man with No Name is a Stock character in western films but the term usually applies specifically to the character (or possibly characters played by The Dollars Trilogy, also known as The Man with No Name Trilogy, refers to the three Spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood Sergio Leone ( January 3, 1929 &ndash April 30, 1989) was an Italian Film director. Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker. Ennio Morricone OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an acclaimed Italian Academy Award -winning composer A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un Pugno di Dollari in Italy and officially on-screen in the U For a Few Dollars More ( Per Qualche Dollaro in Più) is a 1965 Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring The Good the Bad and the Ugly ( Il Buono il Brutto il Cattivo) is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti western film directed Atypically for the genre, the last had a relatively high budget, over one million USD. His following film after the so-called "trilogy" was Once Upon a Time in the West, which is often lumped in with the previous three for its similar style and accompanying score by Morricone, differing by the absence of Clint Eastwood in the starring role. Once Upon a Time in the West ( Italian title C'Era una Volta il West) is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker.
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The name led to various other non-U. This is a list of spaghetti western films which includes western films primarily produced and directed by Italian and other European production companies between 1960 and 1978 The Savage Guns ( Tierra brutal) is a 1961 Eurowestern film, a joint production by the United Kingdom and Spain. A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un Pugno di Dollari in Italy and officially on-screen in the U For a Few Dollars More ( Per Qualche Dollaro in Più) is a 1965 Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring The Good the Bad and the Ugly ( Il Buono il Brutto il Cattivo) is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti western film directed Navajo Joe is a 1966 Italian / Spanish Spaghetti Western, directed by Sergio Corbucci. Django is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the title The Big Gundown ( Italian title La resa dei conti - roughly Account Rendered) is a 1966 Spaghetti A Bullet for the General (It El Chuncho quién sabe?) is a 1967 film which starred Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski, Faccia a faccia ( Spanish title Cara a cara, English title Face to Face) is a Spaghetti western Day of Anger ( Italian: I giorni dell'ira) also known by its UK video title Gunlaw, is a 1967 Spaghetti Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 Spaghetti western directed by Giulio Ace High is a Spaghetti Western by Giuseppe Colizzi from 1968 The Great Silence ( Il grande silenzio, 1968) or The Big Silence, is an Italian Spaghetti western. If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death ( Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte) also known as Sartana, is a 1968 Spaghetti western The Mercenary ( Il mercenario) also known as A Professional Gun, is a 1968 Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Once Upon a Time in the West ( Italian title C'Era una Volta il West) is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western The Price of Power ( Il prezzo del potere or La muerte de un presidente, 1969) is an Spanish - Italian Spaghetti Western Sabata ( Italian: Ehi amico. c'è Sabata hai chiuso! roughly translated as "Hey buddy. Compañeros (original release title Vamos a matar compañeros) is an Italian Zapata -themed Spaghetti western film directed A Fistful of Dynamite is a 1971 Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone (original Italian title Giù la Testa They Call Me Trinity, (Lo chiamavano Trinità also known as My Name is Trinity, is a 1971 Spaghetti western Storm Rider ( Il Grande duello, 1972) aka The Grand Duel is an Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Giancarlo Santi Trinity is STILL My Name! (Italian title Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità) is a 1972 Spaghetti western directed by Enzo My Name is Nobody (originally released in Italy as Il mio nome è Nessuno and also known as Lonesome Gun) is a Four of the Apocalypse ( I Quattro dell'apocalisse) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western film directed by Lucio Fulci and starring China 9 Liberty 37 ( Italian title it ''Amore piombo e furore'' is an Italian - Spanish 1978 western film directed by Enzo Barboni ( July 10, 1922 &ndash March 23 2002) sometimes credited by his peudonym E Enzo G Castellari (born July 29, 1938 in Rome, as Enzo Girolami) is an Italian film director Sergio Corbucci ( December 6, 1927 - December 1, 1990) was an Italian Movie director. Jesús (or Jess) Franco (born May 12, 1930 as Jesús Franco Manera) is a Spanish Film director, writer Sergio Leone ( January 3, 1929 &ndash April 30, 1989) was an Italian Film director. Sergio Sollima (born April 17, 1921 in Rome) is an Italian former Film director and Script writer. Tonino Valerii (born May 20, 1934) is an Italian Film director, most known for his Spaghetti Westerns Valerii started his film career Lucio Fulci ( June 17, 1927 – March 13, 1996) was an Italian film director, Screenwriter, and Actor Alex Cord ( May 3, 1933) is an American Actor who is perhaps best known for portraying the role of Archangel on the Television series William Berger may refer to William Berger, European actor born 1928 William Berger, American writer on music and radio host Barbara Bouchet, (born as Barbara Goutscher on August 15, 1943 in Reichenberg) is an actress and entrepreneuse Frank Braña (b Francisco Braña Pérez February 24, 1934 in Pola de Allande, Asturias, Spain) is a Spanish film actor Mario Brega ( March 5, 1923 - July 23, 1994) was an Italian actor Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, Lithuanian name Karolis Bučinskis, November 3, 1921 – August 30, Claudia Cardinale (born April 15, 1938) is an Italian actress born in Tunis, Tunisia. Lee Van Cleef ( January 9 1925 &ndash December 16 1989) was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker. George Eastman (birth name Luigi Montefiori) Italian B-movie actor and screenwriter was born in Genoa, Italy on August 16 Jack Elam ( November 13 1920 &mdash October 20 2003) was an American film actor best known for his numerous roles as villains Henry Jaynes Fonda ( May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American Academy Award -winning Film and Gianni Garko (born Giovanni Garcovich July 15 1935 in Zadar and often billed as John Garko) is an Italian actor who found Giuliano Gemma (born September 2, 1938) is an Italian Actor. Born in Rome, he first worked as a stuntman then was offered real Sancho Gracia ( September 27, 1936 in Madrid) is a Spanish Motion picture and Television Actor. Richard Harrison is an American B-movie actor (and occasionally a writer/director/producer born on May 26 1936 in Salt Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti March 29, 1939) is an Italian Actor. George Hilton (Sometimes credited as Jorge Hilton is an actor well-known for his many Spaghetti western performances Klaus Kinski ( October 18, 1926 &ndash November 23, 1991) was a German Actor, famous for his ability to project onscreen Peter Lee Lawrence born Karl Hirenbach, (born February 21, 1945, Lindau, died April 19 1974, was a German Guy Madison ( January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996) was an American Film and Television Actor. Tomás Milián, real name Tomás Quintín Rodriguez (born March 3, 1932) is a Cuban American actor Gordon Mitchell (born Charles Allen Pendleton in Denver, Colorado, on July 29, 1923 &ndash died in Marina Del Rey Franco Nero (born November 23, 1941) is an Italian Actor. Biography Personal life Nero was born Francesco Sparanero Alex Nicol ( January 20, 1916 - July 29, 2001) was a film actor of the 1950s 1960s and 1970s Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an Oscar -winning American Luigi Pistilli ( July 19, 1929 - April 21, 1996) was an Italian actor of stage screen and television For the newspaper columnist see Jack Betts (journalist. Jack Betts is an American stage movie and television actor Wayde Preston ( September 10, 1929 – February 6, 1992) or William Erskine Strange was a television actor noted for the series Fernando Casado D'Arambillet, better known as Fernando Rey ( September 20, 1917 &ndash March 9, 1994) was a Spanish Fernando Sancho (January 7 1916 – July 31 1990 was a Spanish Actor. Bud Spencer (born Carlo Pedersoli 31 October 1929 in Naples) is an Italian Actor, known for his height at 6'4 1/2" (194 cm and his past Anthony Steffen also known as Antonio De Teffè ( July 21, 1929 or 1930 – June 4, 2004) was a Brazilian Actor Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (born July 25, 1914, Los Angeles California; died December 31, 1994) was a decathlete and José Suárez (1919-1981 was a Spanish film Actor. Career José Suárez made his debut in a short role in Altar Mayor (1944 a very conventional Gian Maria Volontè ( April 9 1933 – December 6 1994) was an Italian actor Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American BAFTA - Tony Award - and Emmy Award -winning and Golden Walter Frank Hermann Wolff ( May 11[[ 928]]&mdash December 12[[ 971]] was a versatile American Actor whose prolific movie career began with Robert Woods may refer to Robert S Woods (born 1948 American actor Sir Robert Henry Woods (1865&ndash1938 Irish surgeon UK MP Luis Enríquez Bacalov (b Buenos Aires March 30, 1933) is a prolific Argentine Composer of Film scores Early on in his Francesco De Masi ( January 11, 1930 &ndash November 6, 2005) was an Italian conductor and Film score Composer Ennio Morricone OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an acclaimed Italian Academy Award -winning composer Bruno Nicolai ( Rome, May 20, 1926 - Rome, August 16 1991) was an Italian film music composer orchestra director Riziero "Riz" Ortolani ( September 4, 1931 in Pesaro, Italy) is an Italian film composer Piero Piccioni ( December 6 1921 - July 23 2004) was an Italian Pianist, Organist, conductor, Composer Armando Trovaioli (also " Trovajoli " ( September 2, 1917, Rome -) is an Italian film composer with over 200 credits as composer Piero Umiliani (born July 17 1926 in Florence, Italy; died February 14 2001 in Rome) was an Italian composer S. westerns being associated with food and drink.
Chorizo/paella western are used for similar films financed by Spanish capital, although Leone's earlier films were actually shot in Almería. Chorizo (tʃo̞ˈɾiso̞ in Latin American Spanish or tʃo̞ˈɾiθo̞ in Castilian Spanish) Chouriço (ʃoˈɾisu in Portuguese) or Xoriç Paella (pa'eʎa is an internationally famous dish consisting of White rice, Meat, Seafood, Beans and Vegetables (depending on The art of motion-picture making within the nation of Spain or by Spanish filmmakers Publicity for the Japanese comedy film Tampopo coined the phrase "Noodle Western" to describe the parody made about a noodle restaurant. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Comedy film is a genre of Film in which the main emphasis is on humor. This article is about the film of this title For the J-pop group see Tanpopo. Robert Rodriguez's westerns, El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, have been called "Burrito Westerns. Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20 1968 is an American director, writer, producer, Cinematographer, editor and Musician El Mariachi is a 1992 action thriller film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Desperado is a 1995 action thriller film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a 2003 action Film written edited and directed by Robert Rodriguez. " Sometimes Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's Viking movies are called "Cod Westerns. Hrafn Gunnlaugsson (born June 17, 1948, Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic moviemaker A Viking is one of the Norse ( Scandinavian Explorers Warriors Merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas " The German Westerns of the 1960s, which were successful in Europe before the Italian Westerns, often made after novels by Karl May and mostly filmed in Yugoslavia are often called "Sauerkraut Westerns". Karl Friedrich May ( February 25, 1842 &ndash March 30, 1912) was one of the best selling German Writers of all time noted See also Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian The GDR DEFA Studios made Sauerkraut Westerns in Yugoslavia like their West German counterparts and also had a Native American as hero (usually played by Gojko Mitic). The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state See also Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States Gojko Mitić (Гojкo Митић (born June 13, 1940 in Leskovac, Morava Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a famous
The Red Dwarf episode Gunmen of the Apocalypse has been described as the world's only "Roast Beef Western", although the British director Shane Meadows' film Once Upon a Time in the Midlands has been described as a "tinned-spaghetti Western. According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool Star, of the Main sequence, either late K Gunmen of the Apocalypse is the International Emmy Award -winning third episode of Science fiction Sit-com Red Dwarf Series VI Shane Meadows (born 26 December, 1972) is a Film director, Screenwriter, and occasional Actor, from Uttoxeter, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is a 2002 film directed and co-written by Shane Meadows and set in an anonymous town in the Midlands. " John Woo's Western movies were described by Roger Ebert as "Dim Sum Western. John Woo Yu-Sen (born May 1, 1946) is an internationally and critically acclaimed Chinese Film director and producer. " The Thai film Tears of the Black Tiger by director Wisit Sasanatieng has been dubbed both a "stir-fry horse opera" and "a Pad Thai Western" by critics. Tears of the Black Tiger (ฟ้าทะลายโจร or Fah talai jone, literally "the heavens strike the thief" is a 2000 Wisit Sasanatieng ( Thai วิศิษฏ์ ศาสนเที่ยง born April 25, 1964 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a The "Red Western" or "Ostern" is the Soviet and eastern bloc's take on the genre. "Ostern" is also an alternative spelling of Ostara and German for Easter (Time magazine dubbed the animated TV series Samurai Jack, which combined elements of — among others — anime and the Sergio Leone films, a "Soba Western. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Samurai Jack is a 4-time Emmy Award -winning American Animated television series created by animator Genndy Tartakovsky that aired (anime in Japanese, is a type of thin Japanese Noodle made from Buckwheat flour It is served either chilled with a dipping sauce or in hot broth as a Noodle soup. ") Monty Python's Flying Circus provided a "cheese Western" parody as a film critic discussed Sam Peckinpah's Rogue Cheddar film. Monty Python’s Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus or during the final series just Monty Python) is a BBC Sketch comedy David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21 1925 &ndash December 28 1984 was an American Film director who achieved iconic status following the release
An entire sub-genre of Westerns produced by the Indian film industry, and especially Bollywood based in Mumbai, is whimsically named "Curry Western. Bollywood (बॉलीवूड بالی وڈ is the informal term popularly used for the Mumbai -based Hindi-language Film industry in India Mumbai ( Marathi:,, IPA: formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the financial " Notable as being one of the most successful box-office hits of all time in India is the "Curry Western" Sholay. Sholay ( Hindi: शोले Urdu: شعلے ( English: Embers or Flames) is an Indian Hindi film by
Danish moviemakers did a couple of dismal westerns in the sixties, which are usually referred to as "potato-westerns". The Danish word is "kartoffel-western".
See also
Games
- Sunset Riders, a Spaghetti Western themed run and gun shooter by Konami (creators of Contra). The Revisionist Western, Modern Western or Anti Western traces to the late 1960s and early 1970s as a sub- Genre of the Zapata Westerns, nickname given to a subgenre of the so-called Italian " Spaghetti Westerns " which dealt with overtly political themes in the mid-to-late 1960s is a Run and gun Arcade game created by Konami in 1991. It is set in the Wild west.
- Deadlands, a role playing game sometimes described as "The Spaghetti Western. Deadlands is a genre-mixing alternate history Roleplaying game which combines the Western and horror genres A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. . . With Meat!"
- Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive, a Spaghetti Western-themed computer game specially based on the Dollars trilogy
- Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge, the sequel to Desperados
- Outlaws, a Spaghetti Western-themed computer game
- Red Dead Revolver, another Italian Western themed video game
- Bang!, a non-collectible card game produced in Italy and translated to several languages, has a Spaghetti Western theme to it, even keeping the Italian text along with the translated text in the cards
References
- Weisser, Thomas, Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad and the Violent — 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961–1977. Desperados Wanted Dead or Alive is a stealth-based Real-time tactics Computer game, developed by Spellbound and released in 2001 The Dollars Trilogy, also known as The Man with No Name Trilogy, refers to the three Spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood Desperados 2 Cooper's Revenge is a 2006 Computer game. It is the sequel to the 2001 game Desperados Wanted Dead or Alive This article is about the 1997 first-person shooter There was also an earlier game called Outlaws for the Commodore 64. Red Dead Revolver is a western Third-person shooter Video game published by Rockstar Games and developed by Rockstar San This article is about the Bang! Card game. For more uses of the word Bang, please see Bang (disambiguation. (Jefferson, N. C. : McFarland, 1992)
External links
- A Fistful of Westerns
- The Spaghetti Western Database
- A Fistful of Pasta
- 10,000 Ways to Die Book about Spaghetti Westerns made between 1963 and 1973, released under a Creative Commons license by its author Alex Cox. Alexander Cox (born December 15, 1954) is a British Film director and sometime Actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach
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- Alternative spelling of spaghetti western.
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