Spaghetti Western

[ENNE-FRAME]

Here in Italy in Rome
As a kid I spent entire afternoons
in the small neighborhood cinema watching western and war movies
I preferred the American ones with John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum
But when there were the SPAGHETTI WESTERN with Bud Spencer (Carlo Pederzoli) and Terance Hill (Mario Girotti) I was laughing throughout the entire movie.
These two actors were very respected here, because they were an example, for their lives, for the generations of young people growing up.
Are they actors known to you? Have their movies ever circulated in the United States?

 

[Rustyt1953]

We are well versed in their works. Entertainers both.

 

[ENNE-FRAME]

We are well versed in their works. Entertainers both.

I thought they hadn't crossed the Italian borders

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The Trinity movies are among my favorites!

Ivan

 

[lihpster]

My brother and I would always stop what we were doing when My Name is Nobody came on. And some of those "spaghetti" westerns were better than alot of Hollywood westerns.

 

[STCM(SW)]

My brother and I would always stop what we were doing when My Name is Nobody came on. And some of those "spaghetti" westerns were better than alot of Hollywood westerns.

You got that right!!!

 

[CH4]

Love me some Morricone. For me, Ennio's music was half the movie.

 

[Rustyt1953]

The only movies where you will hear a bullet ricochet eight times in the desert or over water.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Love me some Morricone. For me, Ennio's music was half the movie.

My plumbing & heating guy is Italian. One day he was working on my boiler and his cell phone rang - it was the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. We both broke out laughing. "I love those movies!" he said

 

[Rudi]

Those two were popular in Germany as well.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

The Spaghetti Westerns starred Clint Eastwood too.

 

[twodog max]

The Trinity movies were hilarious. I sometimes watch them on YT.

 

[ENNE-FRAME]

The only movies where you will hear a bullet ricochet eight times in the desert or over water.

the sound of fists, the sound of shots and the shaking of shooting bodies, blood splatters of the shot men have come to life in CINECITTA' (the Italian Hollywood

 

[djohns6]

The only movies where you will hear a bullet ricochet eight times in the desert or over water.

And every gun sounded the same , no matter what it was . They all had that same high pitched whine .

 

[Bo Rich]

Leone's movies had Actors with pot-marked faces, and bad teeth. With great music, and very bad villians. I can watch these movies over, and over again.

 

[UncleEd]

For me the most classic scene
was Jack Elam catching a
bothersome fly inside the
barrel of his .45 and then
listening to it buzz.

 

[ENNE-FRAME]

Leone's movies had Actors with pot-marked faces, and bad teeth. With great music, and very bad villians. I can watch these movies over, and over again.

Keep Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone out of it, "My name is Nobody" and the Trinity series.
All the rest of the Spaghetti Westerns were absolutely B movies if not even worse.
They were the opposite of the Hollywood B movies with a gunslingers and cattlemen all well dressed with their hair always combed, who died when they fell in a composed and polite manner. But they were always B movies with the other face of the medal.

 

[Jeff423]

Lee Van Cleef was a great character in some of those "spaghetti" films.

 

[rockquarry]

There were no foreign westerns worth watching. Most American B westerns were considerably better.

 

[ENNE-FRAME]

There were no foreign westerns worth watching. Most American B westerns were considerably better.

I agree
American B western movies were absolutely better than the foreign B brothers

 

[pantannojack]

I find it hilarious that as Americans, we don't even know where Spaghetti originated. Was it Italy? Or was it Spain? Were the movies speaking Spanish, or Italian? Were they directed by Italians, filmed in Spain? Or Spaniards filmed in Italy?

Such a refreshment from Hollyweird where cowboys on a drive were freshly shaved like in Patton's army, some even with field scarves (neck ties).

 

[ENNE-FRAME]

I find it hilarious that as Americans, we don't even know where Spaghetti originated. Was it Italy? Or was it Spain? Where the movies speaking Spanish, or Italian? Were they directed by Italians, filmed in Spain? Or Spaniards filmed in Italy?

Such a refreshment from Hollyweird where cowboys on a drive were freshly shaved like in Patton's army, some even with field scarves (neck ties).

Italian Movies filmed in Italy and Spain. More money Spain, few money Italy

 

[pantannojack]

Early in school I read a short story about a wife considered cutting here exceptional head of hair to sell to a wig maker. Reason was so she could buy her husband a nice shotgun for hunting the birds of central Spain. I would like to go there.

 

[pantannojack]

I agree
American B western movies were absolutely better than the foreign B brothers

I can strongly recommend a 1974 Italian film: "Swept Away" by Lina Wertmuller. Italian language as fun as Inglorious *******s. I just got a DVD copy made 2006

 

[mtgianni]

For me the most classic scene
was Jack Elam catching a
bothersome fly inside the
barrel of his .45 and then
listening to it buzz.

I remember Terence Hill sorting wood for a club, swatting a fly out of the air, tossing it into the creek and following it until a fish rose which he hit with the club and fried for his breakfast. It may be my favorite scene in the genre.

 

[ENNE-FRAME]

I can strongly recommend a 1974 Italian film: "Swept Away" by Lina Wertmuller. Italian language as fun as Inglorious *******s. I just got a DVD copy made 2006

"Angels in the sky speak Italian." (Thomas Mann)
but in the Wertmuller movie Giancarlo Giannini speaks as southern caveman

 

[Rudi]

When I hear Spaghetti Western, this comes to mind.

 

[RobertJ.]

When I hear Spaghetti Western, this comes to mind.

Without a doubt. That's the first to come to mind, and one of my favorite movies. And my favorite soundtrack!

 

[rwsmith]

Oh my gosh, YES....

...we used to stop the car on the highway to watch the slapping scene in "Trinity Is Still My Name" at the local drive in. And the two 'gunslingers' in "They Call Me Trinity" cracked me up.'' And:

"Those beans weren't much good anyway."

 

[rwsmith]

Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone

Two great names that go hand in hand. When I think Spaghetti Western of course Clint Eastwood comes to mind. But you HAVE to include "Once Upon A Time In The West". Morricone's music adds tons to any movie to which he contributes. I get a kick out of the 'cheap' budget for the Good, Bad and the Ugly soundtrack, the simple sounds, even rocking a reverb amplifier to make that 'crunching' sound are strokes of genius. And EVERYBODY recognizes that ocarina motif.

Honorable mention to the guy that plays the trumpet in the final gun duel. And the crows. The crows are cool.

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