Once Upon a Time in Italy
Author | : Christopher Frayling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005-07 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105114130748 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Once Upon a Time in Italy written by Christopher Frayling and published by . This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1960s an unknown Italian film director named Sergio Leone was given $200,000 and some leftover film stock, and he went to make a Western. With an American TV actor named Clint Eastwood and a script based on a samurai epic, Leone wound up creating "A Fistful of Dollars", the first in a trilogy of films (with "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly") that was violent, cynical, and visually stunning. Along with his later masterpiece, "Once Upon a Time in the West", these films came to define the Spaghetti Western