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The world's first spaghetti western podcast! The SWDb highly recommends this as your regular Friday date. Tune in to Once Upon a Time in Spaghetti Westerns.
- Hosts: Jay Jennings, Tom Betts
- Air time: Fridays 3pm EST, 9pm GMT+2 (EU)
- Join us with feedback and ideas: Forum discussion
- Like and follow: Official Facebook page
- Subscribe: Official YouTube channel
Episode Guide
- <a href="#ep22">Episode 22</a>
- <a href="#ep21">Episode 21</a>
- <a href="#ep20">Episode 20</a>
- <a href="#ep19">Episode 19</a>
- <a href="#ep18">Episode 18</a>
- <a href="#ep17">Episode 17</a>
- <a href="#ep16">Episode 16</a>
- <a href="#ep15">Episode 15</a>
- <a href="#ep14">Episode 14</a>
- <a href="#ep13">Episode 13</a>
- <a href="#ep12">Episode 12</a>
- <a href="#ep11">Episode 11</a>
- <a href="#ep10">Episode 10</a>
- <a href="#ep9">Episode 9</a>
- <a href="#ep8">Episode 8</a>
- <a href="#ep7">Episode 7</a>
- <a href="#ep6">Episode 6</a>
- <a href="#ep5">Episode 5</a>
- <a href="#ep4">Episode 4</a>
- <a href="#ep3">Episode 3</a>
- <a href="#ep2">Episode 2</a>
- <a href="#ep1">Episode 1</a>
Topic of the show: The History of Westerns... All'Italiana! magazine with special guest Tim Ferrante, the magazine's founder
Watch archived recording (109min): YouTube, Facebook
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Topic of the show: The worst spaghetti westerns according to Tom Betts and Jay Jennings
Watch archived recording (78min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes with a list of the worst spaghetti's:
- Un Animale chiamato … Uomo ;Graig Hill walked out of the movie
- [Man's river] see review
- more coming soon
Topic of the show: Tribute to Robert Hundar and Anthony Ghidra
Watch archived recording (79min): YouTube, Facebook
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- coming soon
Topic of the show: Tribute to George Hilton & Anthony Steffen
Watch archived recording (140min): YouTube, Facebook
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- coming soon
Topic of the show: George Wang and Al Mulock
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- coming soon
Topic of the show: Special Guest, Courtney Joyner
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- coming soon
Topic of the show: The Sergios
Watch archived recording (106min): YouTube, Facebook
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- Covering nine other Sergios
- coming soon
Topic of the show: American Bad Guys in Spaghetti Westerns
Watch archived recording (124min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- First bad guy is Jack Palance (page in the SWDb)
- Second bad guy is Telly Savalas
- Third bad guy is Broderick Crawford
- Bonus is Chuck Connors (Chuck Connors page in the SWDb)
- Discussion of the life and spaghetti westerns of the mentioned bad guys
- Book of the week: Chuck Connors; The Man Behind the Rifle (Amazon.de)
- Discussion about autographs and collecting in the early days
Topic of the show: The films of William Berger
Watch archived recording (84min): Facebook, YouTube
Show notes:
- William Berger's page in the SWDb
- Discussion of the life and spaghetti westerns of William Berger
- Book of the week: House of the Angels by Timothy Wilson (Amazon.de)
Topic of the show: The films of Peter Lee Lawrence
Watch archived recording (84min): Facebook, YouTube
Show notes:
- Peter Lee Lawrence's page in the SWDb
- Discussion of the life and spaghetti westerns of Peter Lee Lawrence
- Confimation about the Passing and contradiction of rumors about his passing
- Book of the week: El Cartel de Cine en el Western Europeo: El Spaguetti Western
Topic of the show: The Django movies
Watch archived recording (96min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- Django (character) an article about the mysticism and origins of the character, and a list of real and imagined sequels and spin-offs
- Title chaos, our list of international AKA titles, where you will find hundreds of Django movies
- Book of the week: Quando cantavano le Colt - Enciclopedia cine-musicale del Western all’italiana by Federico Biella and Massimo Privitera
Topic of the show: A Fistful of Locations! The locations of the Dollars Trilogy then and now
Watch archived recording (85min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- Jay and Tom show photos from the Dollars trilogy, then and now, and Tom reports of his own visits to Spain and of the experiences some others had visiting them.
- As a special bonus, Jay shows the then-and-now collage by Herve Attia (2013) and Tom comments over it
- The SWDb is working on extending our location database
- Book mentioned: La Almería de Sergio Leone offering extensive location descriptions with GPS locations; some others are Fistfuls of Dollars in Almeria and Once Upon a Time in Almería: The Legacy of Hollywood in Spain (which is more of a coffee table book)
Topic of the show: The first ever Spaghetti Western Authors Roundtable with special guests Ulrich Bruckner, Howard Hughes and Lee Broughton
Watch archived recording (85min): Facebook, YouTube
Show notes:
- About Ulrich P. Bruckner: Owner of Explosive Media, former Sony Pictures and Koch Films. Author of Für ein paar Leichen mehr and Leichen pflastern ihren Weg (which was a compact version of the other, and included in a Koch Films Sollima box set). We also have an older Interview with Ulrich Bruckner of Koch Media. He lives in Austra.
- About Lee Broughton: Lee is the author of The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the Other in Film and the editor of Critical Perspectives on the Western: From a Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained and Reframing Cult Westerns: From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight as well as contributor to a number of works including Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation. He lives in England.
- About Howard Hughes: You may know the Howard Hughes' Top 20 spaghetti westerns list we have. He is the author of Once Upon a Time in the Italian West and Spaghetti Westerns. He also authored Mario Bava: Destination Terror and Cinema Italiano
- Books of the week:Ultra Wild West: The Art of Italian "Spaghetti Western" Film Posters by Joe Westwood and Matalo! Dizionario dei Film Western Italiani by Silvio Giobbio and Marco Morosini
Topic of the show: The Spaghetti Westerns of Fernando Sancho
Watch archived recording (113min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- Coming soon
- Books of the week: Für ein paar Leichen mehr by Ulrich P. Bruckner (German) and El CINE DEL OESTE en la Comunidad de Madrid by Javier Ramos Altamira; Ángel Caldito Castellano
Topic of the show: This week's special guest is Brett Halsey
Watch archived recording (87min): Facebook, YouTube
Show notes:
- Brett Halsey page in the SWDb
- book review
- an interview with him
- Books discussed in this episode: Brett Halsey On Screen by John B. Murray (ISBN-13 : 978-1904446613; Publisher : Quacks Books) - get it on Amazon.co.uk, Brett Halsey: Art or Instinct in the Movies (by John B. Murray; ISBN-13 : 978-1887664837; Publisher : Midnight Marquee Press; First Edition, 2008) - get it at Amazon.com, Makaroni Posutā Taizen: Fistful Of Spaghetti Western Movie Posters (Japanese) and the Dizionario Del Western All'Italiana by Marco Giusti (Italian).
Topic of the show: Klaus Kinski (first few minutes covering the rest of the ladies from the last episode)
Watch archived recording (95min): Facebook, YouTube
Show notes:
- Klaus Kinski page in the SWDb
- Books mentioned: Spaghetti Heroes: Django - Sartana - Ringo by Jasper Morgan; Kinski - All I Need is Love by Klaus Kinski (SBN-13 : 978-0394549163; Publisher : Random House; November 1988) get it on Amazon.com; Klaus Kinski: Seine Filme-sein Leben by Setbon Philippe get it on Amazon.com; Disorder & Genius: The Complete Films of Klaus Kinski (by Lucas Balbo; Laurent Aknin; Publisher : Midnight Media Publishing) get it on Amazon.com; and Il était une fois...le western européen by Jean-François Giré
Topic of the show: Spaghetti Western actresses
Watch archived recording (110min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- The SWDb has an Actresses A - Z index, check it out.
- Books of the week: Any Gun Can Play: The Essential Guide to Euro-Westerns by Kevin Grant and Seul au monde dans le western italien (all 3 volumes, shown is number 3) by Ghian Lhassa and Michel Lequeux.
Topic of the show: This week's topic is alternate English titles.
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Show notes:
- Check out International titles, Title chaos and English Titles for your research
- New book release mentioned: BUD Un gigante per papà (Author : Cristiana Pedersoli; Publisher : Giunti editore; Italian) get it on Amazon.it
Topic of the show: Underrated directors are the topic of this fourth episode, as the podcast celebrates its first month.
Watch archived recording (min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- Among the comments on YouTube is a list of mentioned directors and films with minute marks.
- No books mentioned in this episode
Topic of the show: The show has a special guest, none other than Robert Woods!
Watch archived recording (min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes:
- Robert Woods page on the SWDb
- Also check out An Interview With Robert Woods and Robert Woods and Marc Fiorini on El Puro both contributed by Phil H
- Book of the week: Western Portraits of Great Character Actors: The Unsung Heroes & Villains of the Silver Screen (Author : Steve Carver; Roger Corman; C Courtney Joyner; ISBN-13 : 978-3283012908; Publisher : Edition Olms AG) get it on Amazon.com
Topic of the show: Underrated actors are a focus of this episode, plus some great posters and anecdotes as always. This week, stay for the encore!
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- No book of the week or book mentioned.
- more coming soon
Topic of the show: Obscure films. In the premiere episode, Jay and Tom each present their top rare spaghetti westerns.
Watch archived recording (min): YouTube, Facebook
Show notes
- Book of the week or books mentioned: The Spaghetti Western Digest Issue 1 edited by Mike Hauss
- more coming soon
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Disclaimer: This is an unofficial archive and reference page for this podcast. Show notes are not necessarily compiled in cooperation with the hosts. The podcast is not an official SWDb product or project, but wholeheartedly supported by it.