Spaghetti Westerns and Politics - The Spaghetti Western Database
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By and large three historical events were important for the history of the spaghetti western:
World War II
The rise of left-wing (communist) politics in post-war Italy (and its popularity among artists and intellectuals)
The Risorgimento, the movement towards unification of the country in the 19th century (and its importance for the rise of criminal crime rings like the mafia)
I‘ll try to describe these events in such a way that even those people who have only a vague idea of Italian culture and history will be able to understand what it’s all about.
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One of the most illustrious names of post-war, left-wing Italian cinema is that of screenwriter Franco Solinas. He wrote the script for the Oscar winning (non-western) La Battaglia di Algeri (The battle of Algiers), and was responsible for the scripts of two of the most influential political spaghetti westerns, The Big Gundown and Quién Sabe ?
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Return of Ringo
One silver Dollar
Johnny Hamlet
The Hellbenders
Fort Yuma Gold
I want him Dead
Kill them all and come back Alone
Keoma
California
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Django
The Big Gundown
Face to Face
The Great Silence
The Specialists
Django Kill!
A Bullet for the General
The Mercenary
Tepepa
Run Man Run
Compañeros
Duck you Sucker!
Death Rides a Horse
Django the Bastard
Sabata
I am Sartana, your Angel of Death
Once upon a Time in the West
The Price of Power
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