Comments on: Ranking the Leone westerns

By: Alexander van Herk

Alexander van Herk — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:21:14 +0000

Check out Corbucci’s: The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzio), Morricone soundtrack and a marvelous Kinski. Sublime. Thanks for your site, I have been looking for the ringo tab for ages, great song great tab. Thank you !

By: David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:22:36 +0000

I once got into an argument (good natured, of course) at a trivia night where the host asked us to name the four spaghetti westerns that Clint Eastwood made.

My asertion was that he only made three.

Hang ‘Em High was American – American director, filmed in America.

Two Mules for Sister Sarah (despite the Morricone Score), was directed by Don Siegel (American) and filmed in Mexico. So I wouldn’t count that either.

I still have to watch the proper version of Duck You Sucker. I have only seen the cut to shreds version of Fistful of Dynamite. Strangely I have had the uncut version for a few years but never gotten around to watching it…the weird part being that my son went through a spaghetti western phase last school holidays (how’s that for a life – nothing better to do than sit around watching spaghetti westerns all day) and he actually sat down and watched most of what I own, so I would suggest he has a better knowledge than I.

And finally, cheekily, pre-empting your top-ten list – three words ‘Day of Wrath’ AKA ‘Day of Anger’.

By: Markus Wolf

Markus Wolf — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:30:00 +0000

What no 2 Mules for Sister Sarah in your top 5? But seriously, agree with your top 5 but I would maybe swap 4 and 5 around as Duck, was in some ways the cowboy version of Monty Pythons Holy Grail where it was very good, but a bit disjointed.
Can you do a top 5 on soundtracks or say one song from each movie and do another ranking?

By: A.S.

A.S. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:13:43 +0000

We should start a club, David. It will be called The Club of People Who Are Right.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:58:14 +0000

There are two types of people in this world my friend – those that say The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is the best Leone western – and those that dig. You dig!