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Yes, I do this always at the beginning of the new year. And I intent to do so soon.

Maybe some more members will use the great Lockdown months for a new list before the update?

There are also some of our longtime members which haven’t updated their lists for a zillion years. Scherp for example, or our chief Seb … now’s the chance …

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That was my old Top 20. The new version follows (with directors and good enough music composers stated) :

1 For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone) - music Ennio Morricone
2 Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone
3 A Fistful Of Dollars (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone
4 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone
5 My Name Is Nobody (Tonino Valerii) music Ennio Morricone
6 The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima) music Ennio Morricone
7 Django Kill If You Live Shoot (Giulio Questi) music Ivan Vandor
8 Cemetery Without Crosses (Robert Hossein) music André Hossein
9 Dead Men Ride/At The End Of The Rainbow/ (Aldo Florio) music Bruno Nicolai
10 Requiem For A Gringo/Duel In Eclipse (Eugenio Martín, José Luis Merino) music Angelo Lavagnino
11 Johnny Yuma (Romolo Guerrieri)
12 Kill The Wicked/ God Does Not Pay On Saturday (Tanio Boccia) music Angelo Lavagnino
13. The Stranger Returns/A Man, A Horse, A Gun (Luigi Vanzi) music Stelvio Cipriani
14 Viva Django / Django, Prepare A Coffin (Ferdinando Baldi) music Gianfranco Reverberi
15 The Big Silence/The Great Silence (Sergio Corbuccio) music Ennio Morricone
16 Death Rides A Horse (Giulio Petroni)
17 Day Of Anger (Tonino Valerii)
18 The Grand Duel (Giancarlo Santi)
19 Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini)
20 The Forgotten Pistolero/Gunman Of Ave Maria (Ferdinando Baldi) music Roberto Pregadio

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3036

My Top 20…

  1. The Great Silence (1968)
  2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  4. Django (1966)
  5. Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
  6. Mannaja - A Man Called Blade (1977)
  7. Keoma - The Violent Breed (1976)
  8. Fistful of Dollars (1964)
  9. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
  10. Savage Run (Navajo Joe, 1966)
  11. Django, Kill… If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
  12. And God said to Cain (1970)
  13. Death rides a Horse (1967)
  14. Django the Bastard (1969)
  15. Blindman (1971)
  16. God does not pay on Saturday (1967)
  17. Matalo! (1970)
  18. California (1977)
  19. Massacre Time (1966)
  20. 10,000 Dollars Bloody Money (1967)
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This is my actual Top 20:

    1. Once Upon a Time in the West
    1. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
    1. The Mercenary
    1. The Great Silence
    1. My Name is Nobody
    1. El Puro
    1. Cemetery Without Crosses
    1. A Fistful of Dollars
    1. For a Few Dollars More
    1. Companeros
    1. Django
    1. Boot Hill
    1. The Last Killer
    1. Duel in the Eclipse
    1. Blindman
    1. God Forgives…I Don’t
    1. Duck, You Sucker! / A Fistful of Dynamite
    1. Matalo!
    1. Hate Is My God
    1. A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die

The films in each group are very close, and I could swap them around easily. And the next which are outside the top 20 are also very close to the ones which are in, but these are the ones I think are at the moment the most fun to watch.

20 Spags for a better world …

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Btw the voting started 15 years ago in Jan 2006, so it is small jubilee now.

Looking forward to the next 85 years and the 100th birthday …

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And this is the most deviating list, the one the most different from the forum taste:

Quite interesting …

Only one from the forum’s top 20, only 3 from the top 60.

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3040

@stanton had put a revolver to my head and forced me to reconsider, so I shall attempt an upgrade of my list as follows:

The previous 15. is out, sorry Giulio, its place takes (new) Tepepa
The previous 11. is out, sorry Sergio, its place takes 16.
New 16: Anda Muchacho Spara
The previous 19. switches with 14.
The number 8. and 13. trade places
And the previous 20. is out, sorry Sergio (this is a tough one that I might regret after a way overdue rewatch of the film, but hell, we need to make tough choices), and its place goes (new) Death Rides a Horse.
And then I did some more thinkging and I need to demote Companeros to 18, and I kick Keoma (sorry bearded man), and put in a surprise title that has really grown on me and will surely cause some controversy

Which makes the new list as follows

  1. Once Upon A time in the West
  2. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
  3. For a Few Dollars More
  4. The Great Silence
  5. The Big Gundown
  6. Il Mercenario
  7. Django
  8. A Bullet for the General
  9. A Man Called Sledge
  10. God Forgives, We don’t
  11. Cemetery without Crosses
  12. Run Man, Run
  13. A Fistful of Dollars
  14. Forgotten Pistolero
  15. Tepepa
  16. Anda Muchacho Spara aka At the End of the Rainbow
  17. Texas Adios
  18. Companeros
  19. And God said to Cain
  20. Death Rides a Horse
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3041

Yes, interesting. The only ones that I really don’t like are the atrocious His Colt Himself His Revenge, Django and Sartana are Coming and to a lesser extent Law of Violence.

Making a comparison even Austrian forumer Viva Matalo’s list (that I remembered as the strangest, probably because it included as number 14 none other than Halleluja and Sartana Strike Again!) seems fairly ‘‘normal’’.

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Good one, Sledge is part of my Alternative Top 20.

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Just checked, and yes, that list was also pretty spectacular …

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I like Sledge very much, not sure if I would categorize it as a spaghie though. It’s more along the lines of a very successful hybrid, that’s why it’s not in my Alternative Top 20 after all.

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I guess it just lacks a handful more Italian names in the credits, but otherwise… :slight_smile:

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Unlike most other westerns directed by US directors in Europe I think Sledge is closer to the SW than to the US stuff.
At least for this one I never questioned its Spaggie status. Also for Five Men Army.

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Both are Italian productions or co-productions so no question for me either.

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But I think there are some which were co-produced by Italians, which are doubtless no Spags for me. Especially not Chino (J. Sturges) or China 9 (M. Hellman), but I would have no problem to view 3 Bullets for a Long Gun as one, so much spagiesque is that one.

And Red Sun, the total Euro-Western, it’s in the list, but it is still not a real SW for me.

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Which of course we still disagree on. :wink:

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Of course … :wink:

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3051

After hard years of reshuffling and rearranging, handwringing and hairsplitting, invoking all the gods and goddesses of the Occident and Orient, pleading for illumination, I have finally managed to compile this list. As ever, San Procrastinato was of no help to me.

  1. Sergio Leone, C’era una volta il West, 1968

  2. Sergio Leone, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, 1966

  3. Sergio Leone, Giù la testa, 1971

  4. Sergio Leone, Per qualche dollaro in più, 1965

  5. Sergio Leone, Per un pugno di dollari, 1964

  6. Damiano Damiani, ¿Quién sabe?, 1966

  7. Sergio Corbucci, Il grande silenzio, 1968

  8. Sergio Corbucci, Django, 1966

  9. Giulio Petroni, Tepepa, 1969

  10. Sergio Corbucci, Il mercenario, 1968

  11. Giuseppe Colizzi, Dio perdona … io no!, 1967

  12. Sergio Corbucci, Navajo Joe, 1966

  13. Sergio Corbucci, I crudeli, 1967

  14. Sergio Corbucci, Che c’entriamo noi con la rivoluzione?, 1972

  15. Sergio Corbucci, Gli specialisti, 1969

  16. Sergio Corbucci, Vamos a matar, compañeros, 1970

  17. Carlo Lizzani, Requiescant, 1967

  18. Eugenio Martín, El precio de un hombre, 1966

  19. Sergio Sollima, La resa dei conti, 1967

  20. Giulio Questi, Se sei vivo spara, 1967

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Ok then, after some hesitation, the 15 years of voting update.
191 lists now, one worse than the other, but all guaranteed lordoftherings-free, and when we reach the 200, it will be one of the great achievements of mankind.

Feb 21 Jan 20 English Title Director Points
1 1 The Good, the Bad, the Ugly * Leone, Sergio * 3767
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2 2 Once Upon a Time in the West * Leone, Sergio * 3322
3 3 For a Few Dollars More * Leone, Sergio * 3164
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4 4 The Great Silence * Corbucci, Sergio * 2507
5 5 The Big Gundown * Sollima, Sergio * 2005
6 7 Django * Corbucci, Sergio * 1997
7 6 A Fistful of Dollars * Leone, Sergio * 1997
8 8 The Mercenary * Corbucci, Sergio * 1436
9 9 Companeros * Corbucci, Sergio * 1247
10 10 Death Rides a Horse / Man to Man * Petroni, Giulio * 1217
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11 11 Face to Face * Sollima, Sergio * 1165
12 12 Duck, You Sucker! * Leone, Sergio * 1130
13 13 A Bullet for the General * Damiani, Damiano * 1107
14 14 Day of Anger * Valerii, Tonino * 902
15 15 Keoma * Castellari, Enzo G. * 829
16 16 Cemetery Without Crosses * Hossein, Robert * 791
17 18 The Return of Ringo * Tessari, Duccio * 694
18 17 My Name is Nobody * Leone, Sergio/Valerii, T. * 678
19 19 Django Kill…If You Live, Shoot! * Questi, Giulio * 552
20 21 If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death * Parolini, Gianfranco * 405
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21 20 Run Man, Run * Sollima, Sergio * 404
22 22 Blindman * Baldi, Ferdinando * 366
23 24 10,000 Dollars Blood Money * Girolami, Romolo * 335
24 23 Sabata * Parolini, Gianfranco * 309
25 26 Tepepa * Petroni, Giulio * 306
26 27 Navajo Joe * Corbucci, Sergio * 292
27 25 And God Said to Cain * Margheriti, Antonio * 291
28 28 Mannaja / A Man Called Blade * Martino, Sergio * 283
29 29 A Pistol for Ringo * Tessari, Duccio * 279
30 32 God Forgives…I Don’t * Colizzi, Giuseppe * 212
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31 31 Massacre Time * Fulci, Lucio * 206
32 36 Bandidos * Dallamano, Massimo * 205
33 30 Light the Fuse…Sartana is Coming * Carnimeo, Giuliano * 205
34 33 California * Lupo, Michele * 196
35 34 Kill and Pray / Requiescant * Lizzani, Carlo * 188
36 37 El Puro * Mulargia, Edoardo * 187
37 35 Four of the Apocalypse * Fulci, Lucio * 175
38 40 The Grand Duel * Santi, Giancarlo * 167
39 38 Johnny Hamlet * Castellari, Enzo G. * 164
40 39 Vengeance * Margheriti, Antonio * 161
41 45 The Hellbenders * Corbucci, Sergio * 157
42 44 The Bounty Killer * Martin, Eugenio * 146
43 42 Matalo! * Canevari, Cesare * 141
44 46 Django the Bastard * Garrone, Sergio * 131
45 43 Ace High / 4 for an Ave Maria * Colizzi, Giuseppe * 130
46 50 The Specialists * Corbucci, Sergio * 129
47 41 The Forgotten Pistolero * Baldi, Ferdinando * 128
48 48 Arizona Colt * Lupo, Michele * 128
49 47 Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead * Vari, Giuseppe * 121
50 53 Dead Men Ride * Florio, Aldo * 118
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51 54 I Want Him Dead * Bianchini, Paolo * 114
52 49 The Ruthless Four / Each One for His Own * Capitani, Giorgio * 113
53 51 Death Sentence * Lanfranchi, Mario * 107
54 52 Trinity is Still My Name * Barboni, Enzo * 107
55 56 A Stranger in Town * Vanzi, Luigi * 104
56 64 Johnny Yuma * Girolami, Romolo * 96
57 55 They Call Him Cemetery * Carnimeo, Giuliano * 95
58 57 For 100 000 Dollars per Killing * Fago, Giovanni * 90
59 59 Duel in the Eclipse / Requiem for a Gringo * Merino, José Luis * 89
60 58 Yankee * Brass, Tinto * 89
61 70 I am Sartana, Your Angel of Death * Carnimeo, Giuliano * 86
62 62 They Call Me Trinity * Barboni, Enzo * 83
62 60 Cut Throats Nine * Marchent, Joaquin Luis Rom. * 83
64 67 Django, Prepare a Coffin * Baldi, Ferdinando * 82
65 61 The Moment to Kill * Carnimeo, Giuliano * 80
66 66 Black Jack * Baldanello, Gianfranco * 78
67 63 A Bullet for Sandoval * Buchs, Julio * 78
68 65 Adios Sabata * Parolini, Gianfranco * 77
69 73 Texas Adios * Baldi, Ferdinando * 75
70 68 The Dirty Outlaws / El desperado * Rossetti, Franco * 74
71 72 The Price of Power * Valerii, Tonino * 74
72 76 A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die * Giraldi, Franco * 72
73 71 No Room to Die / A Long File of Crosses * Garrone, Sergio * 72
74 69 Have a Good Funeral, My Friend…Sartana Will Pay * Carnimeo, Giuliano * 71
75 74 Red Sun * Young, Terence * 60
76 78 Long Days of Vengeance * Vancini, Florestano * 59
77 75 Today it’s Me…Tomorrow You * Cervi, Tonino * 57
78 77 The Silent Stranger * Vanzi, Luigi * 56
79 85 The Stranger Returns * Vanzi, Luigi * 53
80 79 Cost of Dying / Taste of Death * Merolle, Sergio * 53
81 80 One Silver Dollar * Ferroni, Giorgio * 51
82 81 Taste of Violence * Hossein, Robert * 48
83 84 Garringo * Marchent, Rafael Romero * 46
84 82 One after Another * Nostro, Nick * 46
85 83 Sonny and Jed * Corbucci, Sergio * 45
86 86 Long Live Your Death * Tessari, Duccio * 44
87 87 A Hole in the Forehead * Vari, Guiseppe * 42
87 88 Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe * Caiano, Mario * 42
89 92 Shoot, Gringo…Shoot! * Corbucci, Bruno * 40
90 89 Cowards Don’t Pray * Siciliano, Mario * 40
91 91 Blood at Sundown / 1 000 Dollars on the Black * Cardone, Alberto * 36
92 90 Five Man Army * Taylor, Don * 36
93 107 A Man Called Sledge * Morrow, Vic * 34
94 94 Night of the Serpent * Petroni, Giulio * 33
95 93 Ben and Charlie * Lupo, Michele * 32
96 95 The Last Killer * Vari, Giuseppe * 30
97 144 God Does Not Pay on Saturday / Kill the Wicked * Boccia, Tanio * 30
98 97 Boot Hill * Colizzi, Giuseppe * 29
98 96 Minnesota Clay * Corbucci, Sergio * 29
100 98 Revenge for Revenge * Colucci, Mario * 28
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101 99 I am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin / A Fistful of Lead * Carnimeo, Giuliano * 27
102 102 The Hills Run Red / A River of Dollars * Lizzani, Carlo * 27
103 100 Silver Saddle * Fulci, Lucio * 27
104 101 They Call Me Hallelujah / Heads I Kill You, Tails You Die * Carnimeo, Giuliano * 26
105 103 Pistoleros * Caltabiano, Alfio * 25
106 106 Kill Them All and Come Back Alone * Castellari, Enzo G. * 24
107 105 Viva Cangaceiro * Fago, Giovanni * 24
107 119 Comin’ at Ya! * Baldi, Ferdinando * 24
109 128 A Man Called Apocalypse Joe * Savona, Leopoldo * 23
110 109 John the Bastard * Crispino, Armando * 22
111 108 A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe / Nobody’s the Greatest * Damiani, Damiano * 22
112 125 W Django * Mulargia, Eduardo * 21
113 110 Hate for Hate * Paolella, Domenico * 21
114 112 A Barrel Full of Dollars * Fidani, Demofilo * 20
115 113 Dead Men Don’t Make Shadows * Fidani, Demofilo * 20
116 114 Beyond the Law * Stegani Giorgio C. * 20
117 115 Sartana Does Not Forgive * Balcazar, Alfonso * 19
117 116 Apache Woman * Mariuzzo, Giorgio * 19
117 129 Hate Is My God * Gora,Claudio * 19
120 121 The Unholy Four / Chuck Mool * Barboni, Enzo * 18
121 122 The Return of Sabata * Parolini, Gianfranco * 18
122 123 Bullets Don’t Argue * Caiano, Mario * 18
122 124 God Made Them… I Kill Them / God Forgives … His Life is Mine * Bianchini, Paolo * 18
124 120 The Fury of Johnny Kid * Puccini, Gianni * 17
125 146 Seven Dollars on the Red * Cardone, Alberto * 17
126 126 A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die * Valerii, Tonino * 17
127 127 Drummer of Vengeance * Gariazzo, Mario * 17
128 131 Life is Tough, Eh Providence? * Petroni, Giulio * 16
129 132 Seven Guns for the MacGregors * Giraldi, Franco * 16
129 133 Fort Yuma Gold * Ferroni, Giorgio * 16
129 134 Killer Caliber .32 * Brescia, Alfonso * 16
132 136 Man, Pride, Vengeance * Bazzoni, Luigi * 15
133 138 For the Taste of Killing * Valerii, Tonino * 14
134 142 Death Walks in Laredo * Pero, Enzi * 13
135 145 Trinity Sees Red / The Color of the Wind * Camus, Mario * 12
136 177 What am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? * Corbucci, Sergio * 12
137 191 Ringo and his Golden Pistol * Corbucci, Sergio * 11
138 149 Shotgun * Mauri, Roberto * 11
139 151 Ringo from Nebraska * Bava, Mario * 10
139 152 The Greatest Robbery in the West * Lucidi, Maurizio * 10
139 153 A Pistol for 100 Coffins * Lenzi, Umberto * 10
142 155 Train for Durango * Caiano, Mario * 9
143 173 And for a Roof a Sky Full of Stars * Petroni, Giulio * 7
144 163 Viva Maria * Malle, Louis * 7
145 170 Tequila Joe * Dell’Aquila, Vincenzo * 5
146 171 Any Gun Can Play * Castellari, Enzo G. * 5
146 172 Hate Thy Neighbour * Baldi, Ferdinando * 5
148 182 It Can Be Done, Amigo! * Lucidi, Maurizio * 4
148 183 The Belle Star Story * Wertmüller, Lina * 4
150 190 The Beast * Costa, Mario * 3
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What happened since the last update in the top 20?

Finally Run Man Run fell out (for now) of the top 20, probably for the first time since the voting started.

Apart from that FoD lost one place in favor of Django, as did My Name Is Nobody, which is now behind The Return of Ringo.

New in the top 50 is Dead Men Ride, for the first time. Quite interesting as this one did not get a single vote before 2010.
And The Ruthless Four is instead now out.