Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears/Los Amigos (1972, Paolo Cavara/Franco Nero) 4/5
Jesse and Lester: Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity (1972, Richard Harrison/Richard Harrison) 2/5
What am I Doing in the Middle of a Revolution? (1972, Sergio Corbucci/Vittorio Gassman) 2/5
Blood Money/The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1973, Antonio Margheriti/Lee Van Cleef) 3/5
A Genius/Nobody’s the Greatest (1975, Damiano Damiani/Terence Hill) 3/5
SPAGHETTI SOUNDTRACKS
The soundtracks to almost all the main films included in this volume have been released in full on vinyl LP or on CD. The ones that haven’t are: Seven Guns for the MacGregors, Django Kill, A Man Called Sledge and Blindman. The majority of vinyl has been deleted, but keep your eyes peeled at film fairs or online and you never know what you may find. The best Spaghetti compilation album is Ennio Morricone’s I Western, a triple LP boxed set which contains the title tracks to all Morricone’s best Westerns – again deleted, even on CD. It’s worth seeing some of Morricone’s live concert videos, including Live in Rotterdam, Cantata per l’Europe and Ennio Morricone at Santa Cecilia (also available on CD). Also look out for Musica Sul Velluto, a magazine on Morricone’s career, and Il Giaguaro, an Italian-language magazine devoted to the sixties and seventies music of Morricone and others. For expert soundtrack information contact: Lionel Woodman at Hillside CD Productions, Hillside House, 1 Woodstock Road, Strood, Rochester, Kent ME2 2DL, or visit www.hillsidecd.co.uk
SPAGHETTI WEBSITES
There’s a lot of stuff on Spaghettis on the net and the following sites are all worth visiting. Many feature genre overviews, discussion boards and forums, DVD and video reviews, many poster and still images and even film trailers. The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) is comprehensive for filmographies and cast lists – for even the most obscure actor and film. The best sites are:
www.westernsallitaliana.blogspot.com/: Tom Betts’s informative, always-interesting blog dedicated to European Westerns.
SERGIO LEONE: A FISTFUL OF LEONE!: http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/
A FISTFUL OF WESTERNS: http://website.lineone.net/~braithwaitej/ mainsite/mainpage.htm
THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN DATABASE: http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Main_Page
The fanzine Westerns All’Italiana is available through this website as a PDF.
SPAGHETTI CINEMA: http://home.earthlink.net/~scinema/
SPAGHETTI WESTERNS IN AMERICA: http://sartana.homestead.com/map.html
THE EUROPEAN FILM REVIEW: http://www.europeanfilmreview.co.uk/index.htm
SHOBARY’S SPAGHETTI WESTERNS: http://spaghettiwesterns.1g.fi/
WILD EAST PRODUCTIONS: http://www.wildeast.net/spaghettiwestern.htm
EURO WESTERNS: http://membres.lycos.fr/eurowestern/
THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN POSTER PAGE: http://www.westernposterpage.com/italianpage.htm
MONDO ESOTERICA GUIDE TO SPAGHETTI WESTERNS: http://mondo-esoterica.net/links_pages/Spaghetti_Western.html
There are several website guides to Spaghetti Western filming locations, with interesting ‘then’ and ‘now’ photographs:
SERGIO LEONE SPAGHETTI WESTERN LOCATIONS: http://www. btinternet.com/~ramon/sw/index.html
MOVIE LOCATIONS SPAIN: www.western-locations-spain.com
FILMING LOCATION OF SPAGHETTI WESTERN: http://garringo.cool.ne.jp/
TUCO TOURS: THE DOLLARS TRILOGY EXPERIENCE: http://www.tucotours.co.uk/
This site organises tours to the Spaghetti Western filming locations in Almeria.
Books and the Internet are a good starting point, but there’s no substitute for getting hold of some DVDs or soundtracks, tequila and a good cigar, and sampling the Spaghetti Western atmosphere first-hand.
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French poster artwork for Sergio Corbucci’s Django, starring Franco Nero (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection)
A Fistful of Dollars: Originally ‘Ray il Magnifico’ and ‘Joe the Stranger’, Clint Eastwood’s gunfighter was marketed to English-speaking audiences as ‘The ManWith No Name’ (Author’s Collection).
UK Quad poster featuring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in For a Few Dollars More (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
US one-sheet poster for Duccio Tessari’s A Pistol for Ringo (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
US half-sheet poster for Carlo Lizzani’s The Hills Run Red (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
Detail of French poster artwork for Sergio Corbucci’s Navajo Joe, starring Burt Reynolds (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
Japanese pressbook for Giulio Questi’s gory Django Kill! If You Live, Shoot! (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
US lobby card for Sergio Sollima’s The Big Gundown, featuring Lee Van Cleef (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
Spanish poster for Sergio Sollima’s Face to Face, starring Tomas Milian (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
US lobby card for Sergio Corbucci’s The Mercenary, which was released in the UK as A Professional Gun (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
US lobby card for Gianfranco Parolini’s Sabata (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
An Irishman in Mexico: John H Mallory (James Coburn) and his motorcycle in a UK front-of-house still for Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dynamite (Author’s Collection).
US half-sheet poster for Enzo Barboni’s They CallMe Trinity, with Terence Hill in transit (Courtesy Ian Caunce Collection).
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