The Spaghetti West (2005) (V)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

David Gregory

Writer:

David Gregory (writer)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s. |

Cast

Ferdinando Baldi	...	Himself
Enzo G. Castellari	...	Himself
Alex Cox	...	Himself
Sergio Donati	...	Himself
Clint Eastwood	...	Himself
Sergio Leone	...	Himself (archive footage)
Tomas Milian	...	Himself
Ennio Morricone	...	Himself
Franco Nero	...	Himself
Sergio Sollima	...	Himself

Directed by
David Gregory

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
David Gregory		writer

Produced by
Alison Palmer Bourke	....	executive producer
Alberto Farina	....	associate producer
David Gregory	....	producer
Gary Hertz	....	associate producer
William Lustig	....	executive producer
Michael Ruggiero	....	executive producer
Jessica Wolfson	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Mark Raskin

Cinematography by
Sonia Antonini
Matthew Marschner

Film Editing by
David Gregory		(as Tod Corman)
Matthew Talesfore

Sound Department
Christian Burgos	....	production sound
Steve Hopkins	....	production sound

Thanks
Brock DeShane	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Blue Underground

Distributors

• IFC (2005) (USA) (TV)
• NetFlix (2005) (USA) (DVD)

Runtime:

65 min

Country:

USA

Language:

Italian | English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Blue Underground

Trivia:

Originally contained sequences of Alessandro 'The Whistler' Alessandroni performing the music of Ennio Morricone over the end credits but music clearance was not obtainable.

Movie Connections:

Spin off Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern (2006) (TV)

Very Good

Spaghetti West, The (2005)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

IFC/Blue Underground produced documentary directed by David Gregory and produced by William Lustig takes a look at the Spaghetti Westerns of Italy. This features interviews with Leone, Eastwood, Franco Nero and various others but I'll get back to them in a second. The documentary, like all of Gregory's work, is wonderfully entertaining and helps newbies such as myself understand these types of films and want to check them out. Having seen hundreds of Italian horror films, the one thing that they struck me as were ripoff of American films yet the directors of these ripoffs would never admit that yet they'd insult the filmmakers they were ripping off. The same here because their attitudes towards Leone, the man these films were ripping, is pretty damn stupid. I haven't seen many of the Italian westerns but the ones I have seen are no where near Leone's talent.