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Celebrates the history of the Spaghetti Western - the wildly popular cinema classics of the 1960s created by Italy's finest filmmakers.

"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...

"A mysterious gunman (Eastwood) has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the 'quick draw', the stranger soon receives offers of employment from each gang" -- Container.

Mixing the traditional spaghetti-western style film with Asian action films, a dusty Nevada town is reimagined through Japanese culture. Two clans of gunfighters battle for a legendary hidden treasure: Yoshitsune leads the white-clad Genjis gang, while the red-wearing Heikes are led by Kiyomori. The balance between the two groups is upset by the arrival of a lone wanderer.

Three gunmen set out to find a hidden fortune in this tale of greed, revenge, and epic warfare.

"An uproariously surreal take on the classic Western. In this wild west frontier town, nothing is quite what it seems. Painted ladies soar through the sky, townsfolk flicker and fade, and gender seems as fluid as oozing ink. At the heart of this surreal tale, a restless woman longs to break free from her confinement and ride off into the sunset. Both an homage to the classic Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and a fiercely feminist send-up of gruff...

When the daughter of a Mexican landowner is kidnapped on her wedding day by a gang of criminals, her father hires a bounty killer to rescue her.

"A deadly gunslinger rides into a small western town torn between two warring families. He manipulates both sides to his advantage and becomes rich in the process." --