Favorite spaghetti westerns

[general gruesome]

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

[Sean]

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

[RedKing]

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.

[Unknown Primate]

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.

[Fester]

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.

[Sean]

Mark and Dave and everyone, I'm marking these suggestions down!!

[Flower]

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/

[Unknown Primate]

Sean - Wasn't there a sequel to SABATA, also?

[Fester]

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/

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.

[Hepcat]

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.

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.

[Sean]

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.

[Flower]

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/

[general gruesome]

two really cool Lee Van Cleef ones are Day of Anger and Death Rides a Horse, also can't forgot Django

[hammerfan]

all of Leones' classics.  I consider Hang Em High a Spaghetti western too at least in execution and Quick and the Dead.

[Scatter]

Mark and Dave and everyone, I'm marking these suggestions down!!

Me too!