Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad And the Violent
Full title: Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad And the Violent: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography
- Author: Thomas Weisser
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- Pages: 498
- ISBN: 0786424427
- Publisher: McFarland & Company
- Publication date: August 2005
- None: There is a different issue with a plain red cover, subtitled "558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961-1977."
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- Book Review: Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, The Bad and the Violent book review
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Reader comments: "The infamous fairy book by Weisser should only make the top one list of SW books one should immediately get rid of. Nobody needs this book who has access to the SWDb anyway." - Stanton
Description:
From Amazon: 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.
About the author
According to his Amazon profile description "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." For the rest of us Spaghetti Western lovers he is just the author of the most error filled sham of a book purporting to be a factual guide ever written. Let's just say that Weisser is the man who put the word fiction into non-fiction.
