Much to my shame I don’t know many dated before 1964 (For a Fistful of Dollars) 1963 there was Duello nel Texas and of course all the Winnetou Movies (but I wouldn’t see them as Spaghetti Western). :
I would call them italian westerns not SWs. Nothing modern in them as they are extremley old fashioned.
But Duello nel Texas has indeed some SW moments, at least not less than many Spags made in 65.
1966
- Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
- Django
- Fiume di dollari, Un
- Lunghi giorni della vendetta, I
- Navajo Joe
- Resa dei conti, La
- Sette dollari sul rosso
- Tempo di massacro
- Yankee
… to name a few. Top that!
Good point. But I think 1964, with FFD, that was the real trendsetter for things to come.
But then again, nothing else came out that year.
[quote=“Bad Lieutenant, post:23, topic:662”]1966
- Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
- Django
- Fiume di dollari, Un
- Lunghi giorni della vendetta, I
- Navajo Joe
- Resa dei conti, La
- Sette dollari sul rosso
- Tempo di massacro
- Yankee
… to name a few. Top that![/quote]
ha ha no problemo
All these were released in 68
Death Sentence
Train for Durango
Django, Prepare a Coffin
A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die
The Ruthless Four
Johnny Hamlet
Duel in the Eclipse
Today it’s Me…Tomorrow You
Vengeance
I Want Him Dead
The Moment to Kill
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Run Man, Run
Shoot, Gringo…Shoot!
Taste of Death
Black Jack
Ace High
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
aaaaaand the magnificent 3
The Great Silence
The Mercenary
Once Upon a Time in the West
[quote=“Bad Lieutenant, post:23, topic:662”]1966
- Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
- Django
- Fiume di dollari, Un
- Lunghi giorni della vendetta, I
- Navajo Joe
- Resa dei conti, La
- Sette dollari sul rosso
- Tempo di massacro
- Yankee
… to name a few. Top that![/quote]
Yep,especially ‘The good,the bad and the ugly’ , Django , The big gundown .
These three in a pack - who or what want’s to top that.
I voted for 1966,too - the flowering period
I think you are right. I believe I am mixing up “most important SW year” with “best SW year”.
Certainly 1964 was very “important”, but I think the years 1966-68 were “better”.
Arguements could be made exactly which one:
1965: For a few dollars more and the ringo films. But the era was still young at this point.
1966: the year of GBU, Big Gundown, Django, SW’s really started taking off.
1967: The american market gets its first taste of the Leone films. Possibly a peak year in terms of box office receipts.
1968: This year had the most SW releases and SW’s were dominating the italian box office. This is also the year when several directors started experimenting with new forms of SW’s. For example Parolini’s Sartana.
1969: The decline started, but SW’s still quite popular.
If I were to pick one of these years it would probably be 1967, but a “just as good” arguement could be made for 1966 and 1968 as well.
I think 1969 was a good year.
my favorite year’s for western’s was: 1968, 1971, 1967
1968: moment to kill
1968: if you meet sartana pray for your death
1968 the mercenary
1968: a name cried for revenge
1968: kill them all and come back alone
1968: johny hamlet
1968: hate thy neighbor
1968:today we kill tomorrow we die
1971: light the fuse sartana is coming
1971: they call him cemetery
1971: they call him hallelujah
1971: red sun
1971: dead man ride
1971: hannie caulder
1971: apoclypse joe
1971: Arriva sabata!
1971:fistfull of dinamite
1971: blindman
1971: adios sabata
1971: trinity is still my name
1971: a man called sledge
1967: death rides a horse
1967: payment in blood
1967: killer kid
1967: balada per un pistolero
1967: rytern of stranger
1967: the bounty killer
1967: day of anger
1967: cjamango
They were probably talking about the pasta
[quote=“Stanton, post:26, topic:662”]All these were released in 68
Death Sentence
Train for Durango
Django, Prepare a Coffin
A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die
The Ruthless Four
Johnny Hamlet
Duel in the Eclipse
Today it’s Me…Tomorrow You
Vengeance
I Want Him Dead
The Moment to Kill
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Run Man, Run
Shoot, Gringo…Shoot!
Taste of Death
Black Jack
Ace High
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
aaaaaand the magnificent 3
The Great Silence
The Mercenary
Once Upon a Time in the West[/quote]
I wouldn’t have listed all of these in the pro-68 column (coughA Minute to Pray, A Second to Diecough), but OUATitW, Mercenary, Death Sentence, Ace High, and Run Man Run are among my favorite spaghettis. 1968 gets my vote, and I knew it would before I even loaded the page.
Me too. some of them are pretty mediocre (I Want Him Dead, Kill Them All ), but others like them, and they have at least a certain reputation.
And A Minute to Pray is for me a recommended one.
But OuTW, TGS and The Mercenary are reason enough to chose 1968 anyway.
I think it’s a little unfair to hold the bad films in any year against it 
.
Anyway, as you’ve said, 1968 does seem to have a lot going for.
I voted ages ago but never said what in the thread.
'68
Nuff said ;D
Voted 1968, pretty much for this reason:
After 1968 the genre wouldn’t really go back to what it was before. As Bill pointed out, the genre reached it’s peak and not only the more well known films like OUTIW and TGS were made, but in a way this is IMO the year for unknown gems. Black Jack, Shotgun, Requiem For A Gringo and Execution were all made in this year. Some great ones were made after 1968 as well, but 1968 was really the year for SWs IMO. My second choice would be 1966, followed by 1971. Now I will post this lobbycard from Black Jack cause it to me somehow represents the SW year 1968:
