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Here my favorite 50 SWDB films (not all of them strictly spag):

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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 * [[Deadlock]]
+* [[Arde baby, arde|Dead Aim]]
 * [[Ultimo killer, L'|The Ultimate Killer]]
 * [[Keoma]]
+* [[Joe... cercati un posto per morire!|Find a Place to Die]]
 * [[Perché uccidi ancora?|Why Go on Killing?]]
 * [[Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti|Terrible Day of the Big Gundown]]
 * [[Sentenza di morte|Death Sentence]]
 * [[Vendetta per vendetta|Vengeance for Vengeance]]
-* [[Da uomo a uomo|Death Rides a Horse]]
+* [[Buco in fronte, Un|A Hole In The Forehead]]
-* [[Dove si spara di più|Fury of Johnny Kid]]
-* [[A Pistol for Ringo]]
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