like I said in another post, I like my westerns to be the Italian ones, the spaghetti westerns and having lots of blood, gore, and shootouts, explosions, etc. If anyone else is a fan of spaghetti westerns feel free to name the ones you love and create discussions
There are tons that I like, I like alot of the Lee Van Cleef films [example - Day of Anger], although I will have to organize a list as there are tons to choose from
Lee Van Cleef is the GOODS.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is a great one...
Sabata is one of my favorites as well...
God's Gun
Death Rides a Horse
For a Few Dollars More
Barquero
The Big Gundown
I was gonna say God's Gun too-great movie! I love Spaghetti Westerns , but I also love the old B-Westerns of the 30s-50s too. They re all good as far as I am concerned.
All great flicks! Another one I'll never forget is the lesser known KILL THEM ALL AND COME BACK ALONE (1968), starring Chuck Connors! Saw it at the drive-in around '69-'70.
My all time Favorite is Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
Directed by Sergio Leone with music by Ennio Morricone, it starred: Henry Fonda; Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, and Keenan Wynn.
Mark and Dave and everyone, I'm marking these suggestions down!! 8)
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good the Bad & the Ugly
A Man Called Sledge
A more recent flick is Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116830/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116830/)
Sean - Wasn't there a sequel to SABATA, also?
Quote from: Flower on June 14, 2012, 10:45:31 AM
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good the Bad & the Ugly
A Man Called Sledge
A more recent flick is Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116830/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116830/)
Good call, Flower!
Last Man Standing is indeed a Spaghetti Western seeing as how it is a remake of
A Fistfull Of Dollars.
This is one of those ironic moments for those folks who moan and grouse about remakes.
In 1929, Dashiell Hammett wrote a novel called
Red Harvest about a detective caught in a gang war in a small western town. The movie version was not all that good. Hammett also wrote the novel
The Glass Key, also made into a movie. In 196i Japan's greatest director(IMHO) Akira Kurosawa took elements from
Red Harvest and
The Glass Key and made the film
Yojimbo (trans: Bodyguard) a film about a masterless samurai caught up in a gang war to control a feudal Japanese village. The samurai in Yojimbo has no name--sound familiar? A few years later, Sergio Leone directed a remake featuring a lone gunfighter (with no name). That was
A Fistfull of Dollars. Then along came
Last Man Standing (1996) which actually had writing credit attributed to Kurosawa.
Once in a while the remakes are as good as or better than the originals. ;)
Quote from: RedKing on June 13, 2012, 08:31:09 PMI love Spaghetti Westerns , but I also love the old B-Westerns of the 30s-50s too. They re all good as far as I am concerned.
Interesting. Myself I could never get into westerns as a kid. They were too slow and humdrum for my taste. I much preferred sci-fi. I didn't get into westerns
until spaghetti westerns hit the scene. Clint Eastwood's man with no name made John Wayne's characters look like boy scouts. I've been a big fan of spaghetti westerns ever since.
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Quote from: Unknown Primate on June 14, 2012, 11:05:09 AM
Sean - Wasn't there a sequel to SABATA, also?
There were 2. 'Return of Sabata' with Van Cleef and 'Adios Sabata' with Yul Brynner.
Interesting footnote to the trilogy (of which 'Adios Sabata' was the MIDDLE film):
Adiós, Sabata
With Yul Brynner cast in the lead role, this film was originally going to be entitled Indio Black, but the title was changed after the first Sabata film proved successful and had inspired many imitators. Ironically, Lee Van Cleef, star of the first Sabata film had been offered the role, but had to decline because he was committed to The Magnificent Seven Ride in the role of Chris Adams, which Brynner had made famous in The Magnificent Seven.
I know that it is a remake but it is also in many ways the grandfather of Spaghetti Westerns ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/)
two really cool Lee Van Cleef ones are Day of Anger and Death Rides a Horse, also can't forgot Django
all of Leones' classics. I consider Hang Em High a Spaghetti western too at least in execution and Quick and the Dead.
Quote from: Sean on June 14, 2012, 08:25:06 AM
Mark and Dave and everyone, I'm marking these suggestions down!! 8)
Me too!
"My Name is Nobody" and the Trinity Brother Films.
Quote from: Flower on June 15, 2012, 09:12:17 AM
I know that it is a remake but it is also in many ways the grandfather of Spaghetti Westerns ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/)
Why do you say that The Magnificent Seven was the grandfather of spaghetti westerns when it was not made by an Italian studio?
???
Here is a great part of For A Few Dollars More
For a few dollars more, Final duel (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sjne)
Good Bad and the Ugly Final Shootout
The Good The Bad and the Ugly - Duel Finale (HQ) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6x401CGAl8#ws)
And The Music was the Best Part. And Duck You Sucker was a Good One.
Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyxDVBX2o0#ws)
Check Out This great scene from My Name is Nobody
My Name is nobody . (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbuKrvW_dCQ#ws)
Emazers, I'm going to have to check out My Name Is Nobody. Great time period (1973).
The Final Showdown With Bad Guy Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson. In Once Upon a Time In The West
Ennio Morricone - Once Upon A Time In The West Soundtrack - The Final Duel (Movie Version) HQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLXU-Sa_o_I#ws)
so the vote is unanimous ...
whens the slumber party ?? :)
Quote from: Hepcat on June 15, 2012, 08:18:41 PM
Why do you say that The Magnificent Seven was the grandfather of spaghetti westerns when it was not made by an Italian studio?
???
Yeah, I had a film professor jokingly refer to it as a "Sukiyaki Western" seeing as it was a remake of Kurosawa's
Seven Samurai. Not sure what he would have called
Battle Beyond the Stars which was a Science Fiction remake of
The Magnificent Sevenand even featured Robert Vaughn as one of the gunslingers.
But there is another Japanese Western called
Sukiyaki Western Django, directed by Takashi Miike and featuring Quentin Tarantino who is releasing his own "Spaghetti Western,"
Django Unchained sometime before the end of the year. (Unless Paramount is producing it ::))
Missdead13: Sounds like fun!
The Great Silence
Cemetery Without Crosses
Day of Anger
Massacre Time
A Pistol For Ringo
The Great Silence
The Big Gundown (Best of the non-Leone imo. I have a fan made version in widescreen with missing scenes, bravo!) THE best soundtrack also, bravo Morricone!!
A Fistful of Dynamite (along with any Leones of course)
Who was the cat with the crazy dice pistol? I've seen so many of these they tend to blend together
Just bought a 16 film collection at Burlington Coat Factory of all locations for like 8 bucks!!
If I HAD to pick one film....For a Few Dollars More
The Mercenary was a good one I recently watched on Netflix
I'll never forget seeing this at the drive-in. The big dude carrying the cannon was Hercules Cortez, a professional wrestler - my little brother & I were big "rasslin'" fans and man, were we stoked when we saw his name in the opening credits! Think I'm gonna have to get the dvd.
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968) Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eg-ux8-2vk#ws)
Anything by Sergio Leone, but especially the Dollars trilogy. It is one of the few perfect trilogies out there. Its one of my favorite series with my all time favorite actor and I am so honored and blessed to have been able to be on set and in a film with Mr. Eastwood.
This what I watched last Friday night.A night of perfect western action:
"Fistful Of Dollars"
"For A Few Dollars More"
"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"
-Clint Eastwood (well. duh)
Sergio Leones classic trilogy about a mysterious "Man With No Name" and the adventures he gets in to.
Phantom"s Review: Well there's really nothing that I can say, that hasn't already been said about these films. There great. There classics. There the best of the "Spaghetti Western" genre. 'nuff said.
exactly, The Dollars films has some of the best stuff when It comes to spaghetti westerns, such as the Mexico location, bandidos, lots of action/shootings/killings, and the Man with No Name has to be one of the coolest Western characters ever
I'm a big fan of Ricardo Blasco's Gunfight at Red Sands from 1963, and, of course, the original Django (1966) directed by Sergio Corbucci.
Oh, if there was only more time in the day and no need for "real-world-jobs" . . . I'd sit at home and watch movies all day. I REALLY enjoy spaghtetti Westerns (at least, what I've seen), and wish I had more time/could make more time to REALLY explore this subgenre.
Quote from: steve050305 on November 12, 2012, 01:37:49 AM
exactly, The Dollars films has some of the best stuff when It comes to spaghetti westerns, such as the Mexico location, bandidos, lots of action/shootings/killings, and the Man with No Name has to be one of the coolest Western characters ever.
I agree!
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Quote from: steve050305 on November 12, 2012, 01:37:49 AM
exactly, The Dollars films has some of the best stuff when It comes to spaghetti westerns, such as the Mexico location, bandidos, lots of action/shootings/killings, and the Man with No Name has to be one of the coolest Western characters ever
I know John Wayne filmed some of his later westerns in Mexico, and the "Maginficent Seven" was filmed there; however, I believe the trilogy was filmed in Italy, which is why it was derisivly called a "Spaghetti" western. By the way, those filmed in Germany, were called "Saurkraut" Westerns.
Quote from: Haunted hearse on November 12, 2012, 01:33:23 PM
I know John Wayne filmed some of his later westerns in Mexico, and the "Maginficent Seven" was filmed there; however, I believe the trilogy was filmed in Italy, which is why it was derisivly called a "Spaghetti" western. By the way, those filmed in Germany, were called "Saurkraut" Westerns.
yeah, I like the Italian westerns the best
Quote from: BrotherD on November 12, 2012, 01:51:46 AM
I'm a big fan of Ricardo Blasco's Gunfight at Red Sands from 1963, and, of course, the original Django (1966) directed by Sergio Corbucci.
Oh, if there was only more time in the day and no need for "real-world-jobs" . . . I'd sit at home and watch movies all day. I REALLY enjoy spaghtetti Westerns (at least, what I've seen), and wish I had more time/could make more time to REALLY explore this subgenre.
You'd need plenty of time.
There are about 600
Spaghetti Westerns.
And the term, Spaghetti Western is more descriptive of the producers, directors, and cast of the movies that any filming locations.
In the beginning the term was derogatory, however. become accepted as descriptive. In Italy they are called
western all'italiana (Italian-Style Western).
These movies were originally released in dubbed Italian. The typical Spaghetti Western production had an Italian director; Italian and Spanish crew; and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors.
A Fistful of Dollars was shot primarily in Spain, with some filming in Italy.
For a Few Dollars More shot entirely in Spain (except for some interior studio work done in Italy).
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Filmed mostly In Spain, studio work in Rome, and some scenes shot in Mexico.
Once Upon a Time in the West was filmed in Arizona, Utah, and Spain, with studio production in Rome.
One of the most popular locations was the desert in Andalucia, Spain. The town of Tabernas has a pretty active movie ranch that rivals Old Tucson.
Check it out: Texas, Mexico, Arabia, Australia, and Cimmeria all rolled into one . . .
http://www.fort-bravo.com/pages_eng/frameset_eng.htm (http://www.fort-bravo.com/pages_eng/frameset_eng.htm)
Quote from: Fester on November 12, 2012, 10:58:09 PM
You'd need plenty of time.
There are about 600 Spaghetti Westerns.
And the term, Spaghetti Western is more descriptive of the producers, directors, and cast of the movies that any filming locations.
In the beginning the term was derogatory, however. become accepted as descriptive. In Italy they are called western all'italiana (Italian-Style Western).
These movies were originally released in dubbed Italian. The typical Spaghetti Western production had an Italian director; Italian and Spanish crew; and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors.
A Fistful of Dollars was shot primarily in Spain, with some filming in Italy.
For a Few Dollars More shot entirely in Spain (except for some interior studio work done in Italy).
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Filmed mostly In Spain, studio work in Rome, and some scenes shot in Mexico.
Once Upon a Time in the West was filmed in Arizona, Utah, and Spain, with studio production in Rome.
One of the most popular locations was the desert in Andalucia, Spain. The town of Tabernas has a pretty active movie ranch that rivals Old Tucson.
Check it out: Texas, Mexico, Arabia, Australia, and Cimmeria all rolled into one . . .
http://www.fort-bravo.com/pages_eng/frameset_eng.htm (http://www.fort-bravo.com/pages_eng/frameset_eng.htm)
lots of great info man! thanks, It'd be cool to visit the desert location
I had no idea that any of "Once Upon a Time in the west" filmed in the US, so why not? If parts of Europe could pass for the American West, then I imagine that the American West could as well.