Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone

by Christopher Frayling and Christopher Frayling; Autry National Center's Museum of the American West

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810958848
• ISBN13: 9780810958845
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary