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* [[Lo voglio morto|I Want Him Dead ]] | * [[Lo voglio morto|I Want Him Dead ]] | ||
* [[Buitres cavarán tu fosa, Los|And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave]] | * [[Buitres cavarán tu fosa, Los|And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave]] | ||
* [[10.000 dollari per un massacro|10.000 Dollars for a Massacre]] | * [[10.000 dollari per un massacro|10.000 Dollars for a Massacre]] | ||
* [[Giorni dell'ira, I|Day of Anger]] | * [[Giorni dell'ira, I|Day of Anger]] | ||
* [[Se sei vivo spara|Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! ]] | * [[Se sei vivo spara|Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! ]] | ||
* [[Cangaçeiro, O'|O' Cangaçeiro]] | |||
* [[Pampa salvaje|Savage Pampas]] | * [[Pampa salvaje|Savage Pampas]] | ||
* [[Lunghi giorni della vendetta, I|The Long Days of Vengeance ]] | * [[Lunghi giorni della vendetta, I|The Long Days of Vengeance ]] | ||
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* [[Odio è il mio Dio, L'|Hate Is My God ]] | * [[Odio è il mio Dio, L'|Hate Is My God ]] | ||
* [[Lo ammazzo come un cane... ma lui rideva ancora|Death Played the Flute]] | * [[Lo ammazzo come un cane... ma lui rideva ancora|Death Played the Flute]] | ||
* [[Dio perdona... Io no!|God Forgives, I Don't]] | |||
* [[Ultimo killer, L'|The Ultimate Killer]] | * [[Ultimo killer, L'|The Ultimate Killer]] | ||
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* [[Perché uccidi ancora?|Why Go on Killing?]] | * [[Perché uccidi ancora?|Why Go on Killing?]] | ||
* [[Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti|Terrible Day of the Big Gundown]] | * [[Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti|Terrible Day of the Big Gundown]] |
Revision as of 18:25, 8 May 2018
Here my favorite 50 SWDB films (not all of them strictly spag):
- Once upon a Time in the West
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- The Great Silence
- For a Few dollars More
- A Fistful of Dollars
- Django
- Face to face
- El Puro
- Duck, You Sucker
- The Big Gundown
- Compañeros
- Tepepa
- Cemetery Without Crosses
- The Bounty Killer
- A Bullet for the General
- A Town Called Bastard
- The Wind's Anger
- California
- The Mercenary
- The Taste of Violence
- Run, Man, Run
- Boot Hill
- Sonora
- Antonio das Mortes
- I Want Him Dead
- And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave
- 10.000 Dollars for a Massacre
- Day of Anger
- Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
- O' Cangaçeiro
I watched Once Upon a Time in the West more than ten times when shown in the theatres in the late sixties and early seventies. For forty years I avoided the non-Leone spaghetti westerns, out of pietism. However, sometime in 2012 I started wondering; as Leone made five great films all by himself, maybe his other Italian film-maker colleagues achieved five decent films all of them together.
I ended up watching about 150 spags in the next 15 months, using the SWDB as a roadmap, everything from Greek tragedy to slapstick comedy. I found a number of perfectly good anti-oppressive films, and an even larger number of maybe not so perfect, even far from perfect, but perfectly amoral, bleak, noirish westerns, different from Leone’s films. This, I think, is where spaghetti western gets real interesting.
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