Western, Italian Style

This documentary - made for American TV and included as an extra on the Blue Underground DVD of RUN, MAN, RUN (1968) - gives us a rare behind-the-scenes look at the Spanish town of Almeria which throughout the 1960s and 1970s literally stood in for the American West or Mexico in some 600 Spaghetti Westerns! Among the interviewees are Italian directors Enzo G. Castellari, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Sollima, as well as French film star Jean-Louis Trintignant and American actor Chuck Connors. The short - narrated by character actor Frank Wolff, a regular in Spaghetti Westerns - is especially valuable for showing such key genre classics as THE GREAT SILENCE (1968), ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) and RUN, MAN, RUN itself being filmed.

This 38 minute documentary from 1968 narrated by Frank Wolff, is a very simplified overview of Italian Westerns. It also has behind-the-scene footage of various Westerns, interviews with their respectable directors, and it's impact on Italian life. Then it seems to dissolve into a travelogue for Italy itself, before telling of twists on westerns. I found this film to be way too bland and basic to be that enjoyable. Good only as a curiosity, I believe this was made for American TV. This documentary can be found as an extra on the "Run, Man, Run" disk of the Blue Underground Spahetti Western DVD collection.

My Grade: D+

Very good ,rare and just great if your a true fan .