Once Upon A Time in the Italian West
The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2006
288 pages
978-0-85773-045-9 (ISBN)
Description
The ideal popular guide to the key Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the films that created the mythical Spaghetti West in the most improbable circumstances. Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy is covered, with many more major and minor Spaghetti Westerns, including Sergio Corbucci's "Navajo Joe", Carlo Lizzani's "The Hills Run Red" and Duccio Tessari's "A Pistol for Ringo". This popular guide explores the films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of the films' making, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information, box office fortunes internationally, with many illustrations, including original posters and stills.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
Illustrated throughout
ISBN-13
978-0-85773-045-9 (9780857730459)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2004
I.B. Tauris
€24.50
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Person
Howard Hughes is the author of 'The Pocket Essentials Guide to Spaghetti Westerns' and the forthcoming Crime Wave (I.B.Tauris).
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Sundowner: An Introduction to European Westerns
- Spaghetti Western Top Tens
- 1. 'Life Can Be so Precious'
- 2. 'It's a Matter of Principle'
- 3. 'A Man Who Hopes, Fears'
- 4. 'Were You Ever Young?'
- 5. 'I Was Away, Too Far Away'
- 6. 'It's the Reason Why I Live, Why I Breathe'
- 7. 'Time Was When We'd Pay a Dollar For His Scalp'
- 8. 'In This Life, One Can Die Too'
- 9. 'There Are Two Kinds of People in the World'
- 10. 'We Got Problems... Even Up In Heaven'
- 11. 'I Don't Even Respect the Living'
- 12. 'The Dogs of Juarez'
- 13. 'I See You're a Man of Your Word'
- 14. 'All Men Must Die in Time'
- 15. 'I'll Kill You Any Way You Want'
- 16. 'Since When Are Wolves Afraid of Wolves?'
- 17. 'You Play By the Rules, You Lose'
- 18. 'A Wise Man Keeps His Distance'
- 19. 'He Keeps Alive With His Colt.45'
- 20. 'The Secret of a Long Life is to Try Not to Shorten it'
- Bibliography
- Index
