Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns
"Howard Hughes has written a well-researched, detailed, no-nonsense and above all enthusiastic guide to twenty of the best Italian Westerns fromA Fistful of DollarstoMy Name is Nobody. He has aimed for the heart, and unlike the bad guy inFistful,he has hit it."--Christopher Frayling, author ofSpaghetti Westerns "Very Digestible."--Empire Magazine,August 2006 ''Hughes is well versed in many of the contemporaneous Hollywood western into the bargain, and is particularly good at tracing thematic and narrative connections between Italian offerings and their American antecedents …Once Upon a Time in the Italian Westis a well-researched, enjoyable book that will reward both aficionados of the spaghetti western and readers who’d like to find out more about this too-often neglected sub-genre.'' --Film International