French author Antoine François Prévost’s 1731 novel Manon Lescaut (French: L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut), the ...

Franco Nero’s place in the Italian western pantheon was solidified the moment he appeared in Sergio Corbucci’s seminal classic, Django (1966

Juan Piquer Simón’s Pieces (Spanish: Mil gritos tiene la noche, 1982) is the ne plus ultra of trashy Spanish slasher cash-ins, that much is

Like most Italian cinematic fads, the spaghetti western movement burned itself out. What began as a direct imitation of classic Hollywood...

While it may be impossible to link a given film genre to its absolute inception, every cinematic fad has its watershed moment. There were...

Robert Hossein’s Cemetery without Crosses (Italian: Une Corde, un Colt; aka: The Rope and the Colt, 1969) is a particularly unusual entry...

Sergio Corbucci was, along with Sergio Leone, one of the major instigators of Italy’s ‘spaghetti western’ boom in the 1960s. He failed to...

Sergio Corbucci’s Compañeros (Italian: Vamos a Matar Compañeros, 1970) is not the best of the Italian westerns, nor is it even the best of

Like most genres, spaghetti westerns can be broken down into a number of subcategories. There are revenge stories, spoof westerns, leftist..

Following the genre-defining success of A Fistful of Dollars (Italian: Per un pugno di dollari, 1964), Sergio Leone’s second spaghetti...