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Spaghetti Western Fans

About Me

This page is devoted to the people who made the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s and 1970s or were involved in varied ways with it. I hope the genre returns.

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Death Of Maurice Jarre

The famed composer Maurice Jarre died this week at the age of 84.Jarre was better known for his composition of action and sometimes horror films than for westerns. He did, however, do some western sco...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:37:00 GMT

Epitaph (book review)

It is a shame Corbucci, Leone and Iguino are all gone as they could have worked wonders with this new western novel on books on demand printing and also in e book form. Epitaph by our my space friend,...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:05:00 GMT

Death of John Phillip Law

John Phillip Law passed away in California from an undisclosed ailment this May. Law will best be recalled as Bill, the vindictive young man paired with lee Van Cleef's Ryan in Death Rides A Horse, as...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:08:00 GMT

The Hills Run Red

At the end of the Civil War, a former prisoner of war named Jerry Brewster seeks revenge. Brewster (Thomas Hunter) is captured as part of a robbery, with his partner escaping to freedom, cash box in h...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:21:00 GMT

The Mystery Of Van Cleef’s Finger

Perhaps one of the readers knows the answer to this as I am at a loss. Please post if you do. In some of the gunfight scenes, most notably the final confrontations in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly ...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:02:00 GMT

Book Review: The Wind Blows Death by Dale Pierce

It is a pity this book was written following the end of the Spaghetti craze as it would have indeed made a great Spaghetti western. If you take it seriously, there is something to offend everyone. If ...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:55:00 GMT

The Leone 2 Disc Series

Follwoing The Good,. The Bad & The Ugly, the two disc sets for A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More and Duck, You Sucker are now on the stands in America. They were al;ready available in E...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:51:00 GMT

Play Our Trivia Game

Name the films these characters were seen in. :ust responses below by making a post 1. Wobbles 2. Sharkey 3. Mr. Banjo 4. Bill Carson 5. Vince Carden 6. Montgomery Brown 7. Paco Roman 8. Pedro the Can...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 17:27:00 GMT

The Great Spaghetti Western Villains

There are too many great villains from this era of western to list them all. Arguably, these are some of the greatest bad guys to come ouy of the spaghetti westerns, though this is by no means a compl...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:44:00 GMT

Overlooked Gems

The Hellbenders Jospeh Cotton in a rare role as a villain, posing an off situation from the start. Cotton is a disgraced Civil War vet who attempts to rebuild the southern army and start the fighting ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:56:00 GMT