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* [[Faccia a faccia|Face to face]] | * [[Faccia a faccia|Face to face]] | ||
* [[Taglia è tua... l'uomo l'ammazzo io, La|El Puro]] | |||
* [[Giù la testa|Duck, You Sucker]] | * [[Giù la testa|Duck, You Sucker]] | ||
* [[Resa dei conti, La|The Big Gundown]] | * [[Resa dei conti, La|The Big Gundown]] | ||
* [[Vamos a matar, compañeros|Compañeros]] | * [[Vamos a matar, compañeros|Compañeros]] | ||
* [[Tepepa]] | * [[Tepepa]] | ||
* [[Une corde, un Colt|Cemetery Without Crosses]] | * [[Une corde, un Colt|Cemetery Without Crosses]] | ||
* [[Precio de un hombre, El|The Bounty Killer]] | * [[Precio de un hombre, El|The Bounty Killer]] | ||
* [[Quien Sabe|A Bullet for the General]] | * [[Quien Sabe|A Bullet for the General]] | ||
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* [[Corri, uomo, corri|Run, Man, Run]] | * [[Corri, uomo, corri|Run, Man, Run]] | ||
* [[Boot Hill|Boot Hill]] | |||
* [[Sonora]] | * [[Sonora]] | ||
* [[Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro, O|Antonio das Mortes]] | * [[Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro, O|Antonio das Mortes]] | ||
* [[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]] | ||
* [[Keoma]] | * [[Keoma]] | ||
* [[10.000 dollari per un massacro|10.000 Dollars for a Massacre]] | * [[10.000 dollari per un massacro|10.000 Dollars for a Massacre]] | ||
Revision as of 19:24, 23 March 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
- Keoma
- 10.000 Dollars for a Massacre
- Day of Anger
- Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
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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