by David F. Walker | Feb 19, 2020 | SPAGHETTI WESTERN Archive
Spagetti westerns were a huge influence on me, and that comes through in my current comic book project THE HATED, which is currently being funded on Kickstarter. As the campaign continues, I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite Eurowesterns, starting...
by David F. Walker | May 18, 2018 | SPAGHETTI WESTERN Archive
French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant stepped into the title role of what is considered by some to be the greatest spaghetti western of all time, Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence (a.k.a The Grand Silence). Trintignant stars as Silence, your typical spaghetti western...
by David F. Walker | May 11, 2018 | SPAGHETTI WESTERN Archive
Sergio Leone is the director most closely associated with the European-produced westerns popularly referred to as “spaghetti westerns.” Leone’s classics Dollars trilogy starring Clint Eastwood—A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad &...
by David F. Walker | Apr 25, 2018 | SPAGHETTI WESTERN Archive
I’m not sure if Sergio Corbucci was a balls-out Communist, or a Marxist, but he was definitely a cynic who leaned far to the left, which was reflected in his westerns as early as Django. In his earlier films, Corbucci merely had the same anti-establishment attitude...
by David F. Walker | Apr 11, 2018 | BadAzz MoFo, DVD review, SPAGHETTI WESTERN Archive
This grim tale of vengeance starts when young Bill Mecita witnesses the brutal murder of his family by a group of marauding bandits. An unseen stranger saves Bill from the family’s burning house, and fifteen years later the boy has grown up to be John Philip Law...
