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They are tough. They are the fastest, coolest gunslingers of the sixties and they don't talk much.
They are the heroes of the Italian Spaghetti West and they changed the Western forever. Clint Eastwood's poncho-clad, cigar-smoking Man With No Name is the enduring symbol of the genre and his Dollars trilogy with Sergio Leone reinvented action cinema, adding a European freshness to the time-worn Western myths.
But Leone and Eastwood weren't the only hombres to saddle-up and head West, and this Pocket Essential rounds up and reviews the best of a very wild bunch, including perennial cult classics Django, The Big Gundown, Django Kill and They Call Me Trinity.
Howard Hughes analyses the entire genre, from the mainstream offerings to more offbeat oddities, and includes notes on Ennio Morricone's fabulous groundbreaking Western scores. He also charts the Spaghetti Western careers of actors like Lee Van Cleef, Terence Hill and Klaus Kinski as they rode the trail to international stardom. In this revised edition, as well as an introduction to the genre, 34 of the best Spaghetti Westerns are analysed in detail. There is also a fully updated multi-media reference section, with details of DVDs, soundtracks, books and websites.
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