Corbucci and Leone are the face of the spaghetti western. They have cemented their legacy in, not just the genre, but in film forever. What a great list of westerns.
You see, in this world there's two kinds of people: those who call "The Good the Bad and The Ugly" the best, and those who choose "Once Upon a Time in the West". 🙂
It's back and forth for me. 6 months out of the year I'll boast that G,B&U is the best western/movie ever made. The other half of the year I'll go down guns blazing defending Once Upon a Time... I can't imagine anyone else playing Harmonica other than Bronson. But if Clint Eastwood had taken the part like Sergio intended we woulda had 'The Dollars Saga' and an incredible backstory for the Man with no name...
All great films. My favorite line in the "Good, bad and the ugly " was when Eli Wallach's character was taking a bath and he blasted that one armed bounty hunter. "If you got to shoot, shoot ! Don't talk". Lol. 🤣😂
How can you have so many other films on a top ten. No way could you replace 5 of them, but a few of your choices could be on this list. Its a decent top ten, maybe you could post an alternative top ten that you like.
I love the list but my personal fave is "Keoma " with Franco Nero. Dark, eerie, hopeless and simply a masterpiece. Number 2 is "The great silence ". The older I became, the more I loved it.
I think both are better than Django for example.....i also think The grand duel is so underrated....plus many other....You cant win em all with Charles Bronson is also a western in my opinion and is great......
GREAT list. Of course, it's hard to nail them all down in just a Top Ten List, but this IS a start. I love the Sabata and Sartana films as well. LVC is just a badass all around, and Gianni Garko rules
"A Fistful of Dynamite" actually opened in theaters as "Duck, You Sucker!". At least, that was the title I saw it under! I suspect that somebody decided to try attracting more viewers by sticking "a fistful of...' into the title, to give the impression that it tied in to the trilogy
I own an Italian made ‘conversion’ revolver called The Man With No Name pistol. It shoots.38 special cartridges and is a copy of Tuco’s Colt Navy in the Good The Bad and the Ugly. So fun to shoot!
Aside from Leone's westerns, "The Great Silence" is probably my favorite! Love Corbucci and I love Klaus Kinski as the bounty hunter Loco!! A fantastic film without the Hollywood ending you would expect from an American movie!
Besides the two more famous Sergios of Spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Sollima has made intriguing westerns, The Big Gundown (1967), Face to Face (1967) and Corri uomo corri(1968). I have watched The Big Gundown; two more to go!
I absolutely agree with your top four pics. The two dollar trilogy movies had the best cast of villains of all time. Gian Maria Volonte and his gang of outlaws really sealed the deal on those two. Another entertaining spaghetti western not mentioned is 'Get Mean', featuring Tony Anthony, worth checking out.
"Death Rides a Horse" could make this list, and if you want to go deep and see about the very last Spaghetti Western made, check out "Keoma" with Franco Nero! It's very good and very strange! Go really deep and watch "Requiescant" (Kill and Pray), which is also incredibly good! Lee Van Cleef in "Captain Apache" is a hoot of a movie, with a nice 60s acid trip sequence that Io love watching!
Death rides a horse, by Giulio Petroni can also be considered a masterpiece. Exceptional direction, montage, photography and soundtrack. Ache Da uomo a uomo di Giulio Petroni puo assere considerato un capolavoro. Regia, montaggio, fotografia e colonna sonora eccezionali.
My favorite western and easily one of my favorite moves is "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly." I didn't know it was so highly ranked. Also, I love the score.
I guess every Western fan would sign this list. My only personal remark would be that I would switch out 'Compañeros' for 'The Mercenary', the gritty version of the same story also by Corbucci, and instead of 'My Name is Nobody' ,that I think is more average , I would put 'A Bullet for the General', one of my favorite Zapata Westerns. Two other ones I really love but which quality and budget is clearly below these 10 are 'Black Jack' and 'Forgotten Pistolero'
I think companeros better than the mercenary...I meant they got Jack Palance, Thomas Millian and Franco. Tony Musante wasn''t on par compared to Thomas Milian
How I love comedy... they have nothing to do with the real spaghettiwestern I think. A Bullet For The General is great. You should see Blindman or Django Kill or Keoma...all great gritty westerns with some gothic and surrealistic touches. Cemetery without Crosses( a french production) and Requiescant are also fabulous! Check them out if you can..
I loved 'Django', in fact it's difficult to make a top 10 list as we are likely to miss out many like : The Five Man Army, Kill them all and come back alone, Death rides a horse, Sabata...
You know your westernes. Definetely “ kill them all and return alone”. The two Terence hill westerns should not be there. “ Apocalipse Joe” with the great Anthony Steffen worth watching. Before Clint Eastwood there was the great Anthony Steffen
Ironically, “The Man with no Name” has a name...it’s “Joe”....:he’s actually called Joe several times in the film. He also had other names too in the dollars trilogy....Like “Manco” in “For a few Dollars more”....I guess being “The Man with no Name” added more mystery to the overall character. The movie “Fist Fistful of Dollars” loosely connects “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” as many people say his Poncho is found/seen. I love and crave finding Spaghetti westerns that come close to most that you mentioned.......one that never gets much praise is “Death Rides a Horse”.....to me that’s I classic in itself and has an amazing score too. Musically Ennio Marricone is an absolute master and IMO just as important as Sergio Leone in his own right. “Once upon a Time in the West is my clear fav”
I just assumed that they called him Joe because they didn't know his name. "Joe" is often used as a placeholder name, like saying "guy" or "fella" - "Jack" would be another example. The phrase "average Joe" or "Joe College" springs to mind - it doesn't mean they're talking about some guy literally named Joe.
From They Call me Trinity I paraphrase the Bambino line "I don't hate you I hate our mother for not drowning you when you were born" all the time, also "makes you feel almost human doesn't it"
The nr.1 is well deserved. Simply because you can watch 180 minutes and a day later - you watch it again. Also it has so many great quotes that even the nr.2 looks small to it.
"The good the bad and the ugly" is certainly the most popular, but for sheer mastery of cinematic beauty and absolute grandeur, nothing compares to "Once upon a time in the west" .. and that is coming from someone who is addicted to "The good, the bad, and the ugly".
THE Two best spaghettiwesterns , no doubt about that. Epic. For A Few Dollars More is ranked third place, rightly so! Gian Maria Volonté is so good in it! He plays and living it. Best actor no doubt. Eli Wallach , the same...in The Good, The Bad... they lift those movies up to another dimension.
Unforgettable, the hanging scene visualised throughout 'Once upon a time in the west'. It's showing the little brother, still naïve, with the older brother on his shoulder. The older brother not seeming himself a very good guy, you can see how much his small brother adores him - thinking he can make it, facing the evil of the world. The older brother was not fleshed out more than in this one elaborated scene, nevertheless plays a big role, at least in the heart of his small brother. The emotion of that scene is much stronger than the ultimate release when the boy, now a man, kills the bad guy (as in the end of all films of this kind).
A Fistful of Dynamite/Duck You Sucker doesn't really feel like a Wild West Western to me. Coburn rides around on a motorcycle, and a motorcar in the Irish scenes. Still a great movie, however! 🎶Shum, shum, shum 🎶
My personal favorite, is ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Films that I really think should replace some of the others here on the list are, BULLIT FOR THE GENERAL., THE BIG GUNDOWN, and KEOMA.
I'd place Once Upon a time in the West at 1. Also, I liked "For a Few Dollars More ". I enjoyed the Van Cleef team up more than I did the Wallach team up with Eastwood.
No The Big Gundown? And no Death Rides A Horse? (Which is my all-time favorite!) Anyway as I always say..... "If it's not a spaghetti, it ain't a western". Thanks!
@@bluesea313 The Long Riders, Pale Rider, Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Unforgiven, True Grit... all great westerns, but no spaghettis... they were influenced by the italians.
Top 4 I can't argue with, but I'd have Giulio Questi's DJANGO KILL (aka If you live, shoot) on the list. Sometimes described as 'gunfighters on acid' its wonderfully barking. Part Spaghetti Western, part Hammer Horror, it starts with the "hero" clawing his way out of a grave and includes scalping, vampire bats, talking drunk parrots and a bandit called Zorro. 😁
The dollars trilogy is actually my favourite trilogy in this genre, not only because their considered masterpieces but they are actually my favourites in different ways, a fistful of dollars being my favourite western in general, for a few dollars more being my favourite sequel to a western that involves robbery, and the good the bad and the ugly being my favourite western set during the civil war, does anyone have any opinions on my comment?
Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns with the signature Ennio Morricone scores are the best Westerns period by anyone: 1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 2. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968) 3. For a Few Dollars More (1965) 4. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) 5. Duck, You Sucker (1971)
0:35 -- RE: Django, "... despite its relatively low ranking on this list [at number 10]..." ; another way of looking at this is, Django is the Low Bar that all others have to get over and buddy, that's not really a Low Bar, considering the production budget and the value they got out of it.
The good the bad the ugly was very good I just thought the stare down was a little too long. I understand the development of the tension but at a certain point you’re just like “ok we get it just draw”
I have a long standing deep rooted love of They Call me Trinity & the sequel Trinity Is Still My Name. I think they were just brilliant. But other than Seven Samurai, I don't think many films in any genre top the feats of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. That film was gorgeous to look at. Amazing to listen to. It oozed charisma, style & class. The lines of dialogue that you can remember are many and truly unforgettable. John Wayne ain't fit to clean the mud off Eastwoods boots. Lee Van Cleefs also, for that matter. The dynamic between these three Eastwood, Van Cleef & Wallach, was DYNAMITE. So well written, and acted. A sheer behemoth of film making.
Great list. I would replace Duck You Sucker/Fistful of Dynamite and My Name Is Nobody in the list with Day of Anger and The Big Gundown. Two Lee Van Cleef westerns.
Very nice collection n selection.Would have been better if u have consider some movies like Death Rides a Horse,Sabata n Arizona Colt.Very confused n complicated task to select 10 out of 200!
There many more to chose from like Run Man Run and Keoma. I think when they switched into comedy besides the ones you mentioned it ruined the genre. I think spaghetti western was while it was best a fresh take on genre that really needed a boost.
A Bullet for the General and Sabata would be on my list. I'd also try to sneak El Topo on to the list, even though its a Mexican film so not a true Spaghetti Western.
Compañeros to me is still way way better than The Mercenary. It's just that way more fun of a remake. The only thing good about The Mercenary is the grand finale duel at the arena.
While it was easy to pick the top 4. I admit I have never heard of any of the others. A couple of them got me intersted though. I will hve to look them up. However, I would love to see a list of the top 10 "Westerns" Speghetti or not. I know I have my list of the top 10. But I would like to see other opinions.
Yes, "Tgtbatu" has inflluenced American filmmakers perhaps because it was the only film of the trilogy made primarily for America while carrying all the hallmarks of Leone's filmmaking which was so different from the American westerns of the time, but if one were to independently watch and judge the dollars trilogy shutting out all the noise around, I believe most people would conclude that, as a movie, "For a few dollars more" is the best of the three. While Tgtbatu feels like a series of loosely stitched events, Fafdm actually has a greatly engaging and emotionally very satisfying plot running through it. Leone improves upon his skill from making the film that started it all, Fafod. The protagonist played by Van Cleef and the antagonist played by Maria Volonte are at the top of their game. The movie sets, the cinematography, and the staple of Leone's films - Morricone's score, top it all off beautifully. ... And of all Leone's films, the greatest in my oponion is "Once upon a time the West" for pretty much the same reasons.
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Corbucci and Leone are the face of the spaghetti western. They have cemented their legacy in, not just the genre, but in film forever. What a great list of westerns.
Lee Van Cleef is the MAN !
You see, in this world there's two kinds of people:
those who call "The Good the Bad and The Ugly" the best, and those who choose "Once Upon a Time in the West". 🙂
I can't choose, both of them are excellent !
It's back and forth for me. 6 months out of the year I'll boast that G,B&U is the best western/movie ever made.
The other half of the year I'll go down guns blazing defending Once Upon a Time...
I can't imagine anyone else playing Harmonica other than Bronson.
But if Clint Eastwood had taken the part like Sergio intended we woulda had 'The Dollars Saga' and an incredible backstory for the Man with no name...
It is silly... The good the bad and the ugly - is simply the best western of all times. Once upon a time in the west is awell deserved second place.
I´ll go for the Once upon a time :)
_The_ _Wild_ _Bunch_ although isn't spaghetti
You know Leone is the master when all his westerns are in the list, and the entire top 4 are his films
All great films. My favorite line in the "Good, bad and the ugly " was when Eli Wallach's character was taking a bath and he blasted that one armed bounty hunter. "If you got to shoot, shoot ! Don't talk". Lol. 🤣😂
For a Few Dollars More is my favourite of the Dollars trilogy
Same, I think the Good, Bad and the Ugly is great but a little overrated.
One of my own favourites is A Bullet For The General starring Gian Maria Volonte as the Mexican revolutionary Chuncho and Klaus Kinski as his brother.
Don't buy bread buy dynamite
So many other films that deserve to be on this list: The Big Gundown, The Mercenary, Death Rides a Horse + Day of Anger
How can you have so many other films on a top ten. No way could you replace 5 of them, but a few of your choices could be on this list. Its a decent top ten, maybe you could post an alternative top ten that you like.
Big Gundown and Death rides a horse probably can replace over any trinity film or fistful of dynamites
I love the list but my personal fave is "Keoma " with Franco Nero.
Dark, eerie, hopeless and simply a masterpiece.
Number 2 is "The great silence ".
The older I became, the more I loved it.
The Big Gundown and the Mercenary need to be included in any list of the best italian westerns!
Love both of those, too!
I'd add Face to Face from Sergio Sollima as well.
"A Bullet For The General". You will never forget it.
Italian????
I think both are better than Django for example.....i also think The grand duel is so underrated....plus many other....You cant win em all with Charles Bronson is also a western in my opinion and is great......
GREAT list. Of course, it's hard to nail them all down in just a Top Ten List, but this IS a start.
I love the Sabata and Sartana films as well.
LVC is just a badass all around, and Gianni Garko rules
"A Fistful of Dynamite" actually opened in theaters as "Duck, You Sucker!". At least, that was the title I saw it under!
I suspect that somebody decided to try attracting more viewers by sticking "a fistful of...' into the title, to give the impression that it tied in to the trilogy
I own an Italian made ‘conversion’ revolver called The Man With No Name pistol. It shoots.38 special cartridges and is a copy of Tuco’s Colt Navy in the Good The Bad and the Ugly. So fun to shoot!
I have a poncho and it keeps me warm at night.
Aside from Leone's westerns, "The Great Silence" is probably my favorite! Love Corbucci and I love Klaus Kinski as the bounty hunter Loco!! A fantastic film without the Hollywood ending you would expect from an American movie!
"A Bullet For The General". You will never forget its plot.
And Jean-Louis Trintignant , one of the greatest French actors.
Besides the two more famous Sergios of Spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Sollima has made intriguing westerns, The Big Gundown (1967), Face to Face (1967) and Corri uomo corri(1968). I have watched The Big Gundown; two more to go!
Among all the western movies they made, only 50 of them are good
I absolutely agree with your top four pics. The two dollar trilogy movies had the best cast of villains of all time. Gian Maria Volonte and his gang of outlaws really sealed the deal on those two. Another entertaining spaghetti western not mentioned is 'Get Mean', featuring Tony Anthony, worth checking out.
His list is ranked based on IMDb scores
If one considers "fistful of dollars" is the beginning, then Kurosawa can be considered a significant contributor to the spaghetti Western genesis
Once Upon a Time is the greatest of all westerns.This top ten spaghettis would provide my entire top five westerns.
No love for Sabata? Especially the first is such a fun flick!
The first and only the first Sabata should be on here
"Death Rides a Horse" could make this list, and if you want to go deep and see about the very last Spaghetti Western made, check out "Keoma" with Franco Nero! It's very good and very strange! Go really deep and watch "Requiescant" (Kill and Pray), which is also incredibly good! Lee Van Cleef in "Captain Apache" is a hoot of a movie, with a nice 60s acid trip sequence that Io love watching!
Keoma is one of my all time favourites!
Definitely would agree that “Death Rides A Horse” should be on this list
The Day of Anger is great ,this movie has a great soundtrack
Death rides a horse, by Giulio Petroni can also be considered a masterpiece. Exceptional direction, montage, photography and soundtrack.
Ache Da uomo a uomo di Giulio Petroni puo assere considerato un capolavoro. Regia, montaggio, fotografia e colonna sonora eccezionali.
No one has any doubt in the top 4 list and thats the contribution sergio leone did to the spaghetti western!
Love the good the bad and the ugly, started my love for the genre.
My favorite western and easily one of my favorite moves is "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly." I didn't know it was so highly ranked. Also, I love the score.
I'm Italian and man, I love Terence Hill and Budd Spancer. Sadly Budd passed away though
The Trinity movies are the funniest movies ever on a par with Superfantozzi and Il secondo tragico fantozzi.
Vamos A Matar, Companeros!! Is one of my top ten FILMS of all time. Love it.
Nero and Milian were brilliant
I guess every Western fan would sign this list. My only personal remark would be that I would switch out 'Compañeros' for 'The Mercenary', the gritty version of the same story also by Corbucci, and instead of 'My Name is Nobody' ,that I think is more average , I would put 'A Bullet for the General', one of my favorite Zapata Westerns. Two other ones I really love but which quality and budget is clearly below these 10 are 'Black Jack' and 'Forgotten Pistolero'
I think companeros better than the mercenary...I meant they got Jack Palance, Thomas Millian and Franco. Tony Musante wasn''t on par compared to Thomas Milian
How I love comedy... they have nothing to do with the real spaghettiwestern I think. A Bullet For The General is great. You should see Blindman or Django Kill or Keoma...all great gritty westerns with some gothic and surrealistic touches. Cemetery without Crosses( a french production) and Requiescant are also fabulous! Check them out if you can..
I loved 'Django', in fact it's difficult to make a top 10 list as we are likely to miss out many like : The Five Man Army, Kill them all and come back alone, Death rides a horse, Sabata...
You know your westernes. Definetely “ kill them all and return alone”. The two Terence hill westerns should not be there. “ Apocalipse Joe” with the great Anthony Steffen worth watching. Before Clint Eastwood there was the great Anthony Steffen
@@jimmysexson164 Yes Anthony Steffen was great he acted in many Django movies. Audie Murphy was another great Western movie actor.
Ironically, “The Man with no Name” has a name...it’s “Joe”....:he’s actually called Joe several times in the film. He also had other names too in the dollars trilogy....Like “Manco” in “For a few Dollars more”....I guess being “The Man with no Name” added more mystery to the overall character. The movie “Fist Fistful of Dollars” loosely connects “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” as many people say his Poncho is found/seen.
I love and crave finding Spaghetti westerns that come close to most that you mentioned.......one that never gets much praise is “Death Rides a Horse”.....to me that’s I classic in itself and has an amazing score too. Musically Ennio Marricone is an absolute master and IMO just as important as Sergio Leone in his own right.
“Once upon a Time in the West is my clear fav”
Monco...it's Monco. It's my cat's name and EVERYBODY gets it wrong!!!
I just assumed that they called him Joe because they didn't know his name. "Joe" is often used as a placeholder name, like saying "guy" or "fella" - "Jack" would be another example. The phrase "average Joe" or "Joe College" springs to mind - it doesn't mean they're talking about some guy literally named Joe.
Great list, I'd have to say For a Few Dollars More is my #1
KZ Maven :My wife and I agree.
Face to Face and A Bullet for the General have got to find spots on this list.
Gian Maria Volonte considered his work in westerns unserious, yet managed to turn in all time classic performances in each of the few he did.
My all time fave is Once Upon a Time in the west.. But you can't go wrong with your top pick. Sergio Leone was a movie making god.
I think Once Upon a Time in The West is equal with The Goor The Bad The Ugly. Both are masterpieces for different reasons
Thank you for your time and posting. What's amazing. Eastwood is still making movies.
I'd recommend Face to Face, Death Rides A Horse and The Big Gundown other than the above
The list should be of at least 20 films, to include the Sollima's and some others like Django Kill-If you Live Shoot.
Djano Kill is so far out and maybe too gritty and surrealistic, but GREAT! Matalo is another one and Blindman ( with Ringo Starr! in a smaller role)
From They Call me Trinity I paraphrase the Bambino line "I don't hate you I hate our mother for not drowning you when you were born" all the time, also "makes you feel almost human doesn't it"
In my opinion I think For a Few Dollars More is top 1
Best characters, best story, best plot twist, best soundtrack.
I've seen a few different lists and this is by far the most accurate top ten. Good job.
Fistful of dynamite is a classic, one of my favourite movies
The nr.1 is well deserved. Simply because you can watch 180 minutes and a day later - you watch it again. Also it has so many great quotes that even the nr.2 looks small to it.
"The good the bad and the ugly" is certainly the most popular, but for sheer mastery of cinematic beauty and absolute grandeur, nothing compares to "Once upon a time in the west" .. and that is coming from someone who is addicted to "The good, the bad, and the ugly".
THE Two best spaghettiwesterns , no doubt about that. Epic. For A Few Dollars More is ranked third place, rightly so! Gian Maria Volonté is so good in it! He plays and living it. Best actor no doubt. Eli Wallach , the same...in The Good, The Bad... they lift those movies up to another dimension.
Surprised not to see The Big Gundown here, also Cut Throats Nine is really good-and insanely violent for a western.
Unforgettable, the hanging scene visualised throughout 'Once upon a time in the west'. It's showing the little brother, still naïve, with the older brother on his shoulder. The older brother not seeming himself a very good guy, you can see how much his small brother adores him - thinking he can make it, facing the evil of the world. The older brother was not fleshed out more than in this one elaborated scene, nevertheless plays a big role, at least in the heart of his small brother. The emotion of that scene is much stronger than the ultimate release when the boy, now a man, kills the bad guy (as in the end of all films of this kind).
Awesome, now i have some movies to watch
Your selection was in great order. I don't disagree with all the ones counted out . Good job 👍
Once again, the BEST movie ever made, Good, Bad, Ugly!
I agree with Sabata!
There's one movie I'd add to the list: A Bullet for the General by Damiano Damiani.
A Fistful of Dynamite/Duck You Sucker doesn't really feel like a Wild West Western to me. Coburn rides around on a motorcycle, and a motorcar in the Irish scenes. Still a great movie, however!
🎶Shum, shum, shum 🎶
Keoma(1976) is worth checking out!
Another really good Franco Nero film!
So is A Bullet for the General, Sergio Sollima's Trilogy, Day of Anger, Death Rides a Horse, and many more...
Thanks for the LIST ~ just completed the Dollars Trilogy😍👍
I remember how Spaghetti Westerns were ridiculed and disdained in the '60s and '70s, and now they are so valued and admired.
My personal favorite, is ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Films that I really think should replace some of the others here on the list are, BULLIT FOR THE GENERAL., THE BIG GUNDOWN, and KEOMA.
I'd place Once Upon a time in the West at 1. Also, I liked "For a Few Dollars More ". I enjoyed the Van Cleef team up more than I did the Wallach team up with Eastwood.
I use to love the little detail of Angel Eyes's hand. He was missing the tip of his right middle finger.
Yes, as spaghetti westerns go, great list! And credits should go to Yojimbo (FOD) and The Seven Samurai (Magnificent Seven).
EXCELLENT LIST, AH THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN GENRE LIVES!!!🙏👌👻❣️
No The Big Gundown?
And no Death Rides A Horse?
(Which is my all-time favorite!)
Anyway as I always say.....
"If it's not a spaghetti, it ain't a western". Thanks!
So we know what IMDB thinks, but what do you believe is the greatest Spaghetti Western ever made?
Once upon a time in the west
Good the Bad and the Ugly
I’m also a fan of For a Few Dollars More
GBU. First saw in theater back in June 1968. Actually saw all the spaghettis in theaters, but GBU was first to screen in my area (Arizona).
Gbu, but The Big Gundown is up there
Can't argue with your list it's pretty right on.
Excellent list!
Thanks!
You should do something with The Long Riders (1980). Great movie!
I agree, never get enough of these kind of westerns,.a must have on Bluray or 4K !
Not a spaghetti western, but a great one indeed.
@@bluesea313 The Long Riders, Pale Rider, Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Unforgiven, True Grit... all great westerns, but no spaghettis... they were influenced by the italians.
What a great list, agree with all
Perfect rating.
Top 4 I can't argue with, but I'd have Giulio Questi's DJANGO KILL (aka If you live, shoot) on the list. Sometimes described as 'gunfighters on acid' its wonderfully barking. Part Spaghetti Western, part Hammer Horror, it starts with the "hero" clawing his way out of a grave and includes scalping, vampire bats, talking drunk parrots and a bandit called Zorro. 😁
Totally absurd and surrealistic, but GREAT!
Pretty interesting theory!! Love it!!
I remember a couple of other spaghetti westerns for whatever reason. "Death rides a Horse" and God Forgives, I Don't".
The dollars trilogy is actually my favourite trilogy in this genre, not only because their considered masterpieces but they are actually my favourites in different ways, a fistful of dollars being my favourite western in general, for a few dollars more being my favourite sequel to a western that involves robbery, and the good the bad and the ugly being my favourite western set during the civil war, does anyone have any opinions on my comment?
Me too with and once upon on the West.
Number Eleven would be "The Five Man Army". Great list.
Death Rides a Horse, Texas Adios, The Mercenary
For a Few Dollars More is my fav of them all
What a great list!!!!!!!! Exactly like mine!!!!! TGTBTU is the best western movie ever made!!!
Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns with the signature Ennio Morricone scores are the best Westerns period by anyone:
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)
3. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
4. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
5. Duck, You Sucker (1971)
0:35 -- RE: Django, "... despite its relatively low ranking on this list [at number 10]..." ; another way of looking at this is, Django is the Low Bar that all others have to get over and buddy, that's not really a Low Bar, considering the production budget and the value they got out of it.
The good the bad the ugly was very good I just thought the stare down was a little too long. I understand the development of the tension but at a certain point you’re just like “ok we get it just draw”
Best film of all time. Good, Bad & the Ugly, with the powerful Morricone soundtrack; without a doubt....
I have a long standing deep rooted love of They Call me Trinity & the sequel Trinity Is Still My Name.
I think they were just brilliant.
But other than Seven Samurai, I don't think many films in any genre top the feats of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.
That film was gorgeous to look at.
Amazing to listen to.
It oozed charisma, style & class.
The lines of dialogue that you can remember are many and truly unforgettable.
John Wayne ain't fit to clean the mud off Eastwoods boots. Lee Van Cleefs also, for that matter.
The dynamic between these three Eastwood, Van Cleef & Wallach, was DYNAMITE. So well written, and acted.
A sheer behemoth of film making.
My all time fav was the Outlaw Josey Whales
I like your list I agree with your number one
Keoma is so cool and so underrated, it's way better than Django, despite me really loving them both
I personally think Sergio Sollima's The Big Gundown & Run, Man Run! are worthy of a mention in this list.
Loved the video, I would like to know your personal favorite spaghetti westerns!
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My fav, not in this list, is A Bullet For The General
Great list. I would replace Duck You Sucker/Fistful of Dynamite and My Name Is Nobody in the list with Day of Anger and The Big Gundown. Two Lee Van Cleef westerns.
Day of Anger and Sabata are also winners
Very nice collection n selection.Would have been better if u have consider some movies like Death Rides a Horse,Sabata n Arizona Colt.Very confused n complicated task to select 10 out of 200!
Il Buono
Il Bruto
Il Cattivo
There many more to chose from like Run Man Run and Keoma.
I think when they switched into comedy besides the ones you mentioned it ruined the genre. I think spaghetti western was while it was best a fresh take on genre that really needed a boost.
The big gundown is top 5 material for me.
A Bullet for the General and Sabata would be on my list. I'd also try to sneak El Topo on to the list, even though its a Mexican film so not a true Spaghetti Western.
Old Henry has to be considered one of the best, no question it is.
Great movie, not a spaghetti western tho.
I approve of this list.
Once upon a time in the west is not "spaghetti", is pure western, a cornerstone in the history of the movies
TGU was a good movie all the way around. My favorite sequence was the bridge between the south and north troops.
Giuliano Gemma is worth of mention
Compañeros to me is still way way better than The Mercenary. It's just that way more fun of a remake. The only thing good about The Mercenary is the grand finale duel at the arena.
While it was easy to pick the top 4. I admit I have never heard of any of the others. A couple of them got me intersted though. I will hve to look them up. However, I would love to see a list of the top 10 "Westerns" Speghetti or not. I know I have my list of the top 10. But I would like to see other opinions.
This is basically a Sergio Leone list with a few guest directors
For a Few Dollars more is my favourite by far. Love Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood playing off each other
Yes, "Tgtbatu" has inflluenced American filmmakers perhaps because it was the only film of the trilogy made primarily for America while carrying all the hallmarks of Leone's filmmaking which was so different from the American westerns of the time, but if one were to independently watch and judge the dollars trilogy shutting out all the noise around, I believe most people would conclude that, as a movie, "For a few dollars more" is the best of the three. While Tgtbatu feels like a series of loosely stitched events, Fafdm actually has a greatly engaging and emotionally very satisfying plot running through it. Leone improves upon his skill from making the film that started it all, Fafod. The protagonist played by Van Cleef and the antagonist played by Maria Volonte are at the top of their game. The movie sets, the cinematography, and the staple of Leone's films - Morricone's score, top it all off beautifully.
... And of all Leone's films, the greatest in my oponion is "Once upon a time the West" for pretty much the same reasons.