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...

Like many Italian filmmakers that found success during the 1960s, Franco Giraldi’s career began on the set of Sergio Leone’s Fistful of...

Gianfranco Parolini’s Sabata was released towards the end of the spaghetti western cycle, in 1969, just as the genre was being supplanted by

Among the possibly hundreds of European westerns to carry the name “Django” in their title in some capacity (many films were retitled to...

The late Jack Cardiff spent much of his movie career as one of the UK’s most groundbreaking cinematographers. This included the pristine Tec

The spaghetti western was too prevalent and popular for a director-for-hire like Mario Bava to ignore and he did make a number of forays...

HERE WAS TOO MUCH GOOD STUFF FOR ONE PODCAST! OR EVEN TWO!! THERE’S GONNA BE ANOTHER ONE AFTER THIS ONE, GUYS!!!

Like all of Italy’s cinematic fads, the spaghetti western movement was destined to burned itself out. If other recent fads were any...