The Spaghetti Western genre refers to a wave of Western films produced in Italy and a few other European countries between the 1950s and the 1970s. These movies utilize settings that are similar to American Westerns, but they have morally ambiguous or completely evil main characters. Instead of heroes fighting villains and saving damsels in distress in the new frontier, these European Westerns use the genre's settings to create action dramas about a wider variety of plots.
Sergio Leone remains the most popular director of Spaghetti Westerns, and his movies like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are mentioned more often than any other film in the genre. And yet, there are several Westerns made by other filmmakers that fans of the genre must watch. Fernando Cerchio's The Tired Outlaw is a movie released before Sergio Leone's debut that exemplifies the parody comedy style of the early European Westerns,...
Sergio Leone remains the most popular director of Spaghetti Westerns, and his movies like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are mentioned more often than any other film in the genre. And yet, there are several Westerns made by other filmmakers that fans of the genre must watch. Fernando Cerchio's The Tired Outlaw is a movie released before Sergio Leone's debut that exemplifies the parody comedy style of the early European Westerns,...
- 10/2/2024
- by Arantxa Pellme, Christopher Raley
- CBR
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