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Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone

Christopher Frayling

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In the mid-1960s an unknown Italian film director named Sergio Leone was given $200,000 and some leftover film stock, and he went to make a Western. With an American TV actor named Clint Eastwood and a script based on a samurai epic, Leone wound up creating "A Fistful of Dollars", the first in a trilogy of films that was violent, cynical, and visually stunning. Along with his later masterpiece, "Once Upon a Time in the West", these films came to define the Spaghetti Western

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Release: July 01, 2005

ISBN: 0810958848

ISBN 13: 9780810958845

Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone

Christopher Frayling

4.2/5 ( ratings)

In the mid-1960s an unknown Italian film director named Sergio Leone was given $200,000 and some leftover film stock, and he went to make a Western. With an American TV actor named Clint Eastwood and a script based on a samurai epic, Leone wound up creating "A Fistful of Dollars", the first in a trilogy of films that was violent, cynical, and visually stunning. Along with his later masterpiece, "Once Upon a Time in the West", these films came to define the Spaghetti Western

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Release: July 01, 2005

ISBN: 0810958848

ISBN 13: 9780810958845

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