Spaghetti Westerns--the Good, the Bad and the Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961-1977

by Thomas Weisser

Overview

Spaghetti Westerns--mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe--were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusing on heroes only slightly less evil than the villains. After a main filmography covering 558 Spaghetti Westerns, another section provides filmographies of personnel--actors and actresses, directors, musical composers, scriptwriters, cinematographers. Appendices provide lists of the popular Django films and the Sartana films, a listing of U.S.-made Spaghetti Western lookalikes, top ten and twenty lists and a list of the genre's worst.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786424429
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	09/05/2005
Pages:	498
Sales rank:	760,010
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Thomas Weisser is the editor and founder of “Asian Cult Cinema” magazine, as well as the author of numerous books on European and Asian cinema. He lives in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Craig Ledbetter     
Foreword by Tom Betts     

I. The Films     
Introduction     
The Films, A–Z (with cross references)     

II. Personnel     
Introduction     
Performers     
Directors     
Music Composers     
Script Writers     
Cinematographers     
III. Appendices     
The Django Films     
The Sartana Films     
Anglo Counterparts     
Top Ten and Top Twenty Lists with comments by William Connolly     
The Worst Spaghetti Westerns     

Select Bibliography     
Index     

Editorial Reviews

recommended without reservation”—ARBA; “recommend it highly...very valuable”—Wrangler’s Roost; “fills out the history and heritage of the western”—Wilson Library Bulletin.

From the Publisher

"fills out the history and heritage of the western"

Wilson Library Bulletin

recommend it highly...very valuable

Wrangler's Roost

recommended without reservation

ARBA