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Spaghetti Western
Sign in to saveAlso known as espagueti western, macaroni western, Spaghetti-Western, Spaguetti Western, Spaguetti-Western, western all'italiana, western spaghetti, Italo-Western
film genre
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Encyclopedic overview
Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name in a publicity image for A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most of these Westerns were produced and directed by Italians.
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