Five Must-own Non-Leone Spaghetti Westerns on Bluray

[stanton]

@LooneyElmerFudd

Yep, it is a matter of taste. But Quien Sabe was the first Zapata spag. Therewith for me it is more a landmark and deseves it place in the list.

Yes it was the first one, but Il mercenario has the advantage of being a real western, while Quien sabe is a western (despite its director denying it), but is more on the edge of the genre, is much closer to the political cinema of the 60s than the other Revolution Spags. Closer to an US forerunner like Viva Zapata (Kazan, 1954), or to Hossein’s The Taste of Violence (1961), which are both no westerns imo.

Apart from that, I prefer The Mercenary. Quiens sabe? is top 20 material, but The Mercenary is top 3.

[Admin (Sebastian)]

Compiled another list, because it was so much fun

Eight Twilight Spaghetti Westerns to feed your melancholy

[Mannaja3] As my last blog post generated quite a lively discussion, I decided to do another little list. Our community isn’t exactly in agreement over what exactly constitute a “twilight spaghetti western”, but the term is most often used to describe spaghetti westerns that came out in the twilight years of the genre, more specifically in the late 70s as the genre was on its way out. Some of the films remembered in this context offer a distinct style that sets them apart from the films that d…

[Floki (John)]

I think these are must own titles.

• Keoma
• Django the Bastard
• Vengeance
• The Grand Duel
• The Return of Ringo

I was thinking about adding Guns for San Sebastian to this list but Im not sure if its regarded as proper spaghetti western.