Spaghetti westerns
Subtitle: the good, the bad, and the violent : a comprehensive, illustrated filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and their personnel, 1961-1977
By: by Thomas Weisser.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
Subjects: Western films -- Europe -- Catalogs.
Description: "Spaghetti Westerns--mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe--were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusing on heroes only slightly less evil than the villains. After a main filmography covering 558 Spaghetti Westerns, another section provides filmographies of personnel--actors, directors, musical composers, scriptwriters, cinematographers. Appendices provide lists of the popular Django films and the Sartana films, a listing of U.S.-made Spaghetti Western lookalikes, and lists of the genre's best and worst--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-480) and index.