Once Upon a Time in the Italian West - by Howard Hughes (Paperback)

About the Book

A readable, funny, vividly told account of everything you ever wanted to know about the Spaghetti West

Book Synopsis

The ideal popular guide to the key Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the films that created the mythical Spaghetti West in the most improbable circumstances. Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy is covered, with many more major and minor Spaghetti Westerns, including Sergio Corbucci's "Navajo Joe", Carlo Lizzani's "The Hills Run Red" and Duccio Tessari's "A Pistol for Ringo". This popular guide explores the films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of the films' making, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information, box office fortunes internationally, with many illustrations, including original posters and stills.

Review Quotes

"Howard Hughes has written a well-researched, detailed, no-nonsense and above all enthusiastic guide to twenty of the best Italian Westerns from A Fistful of Dollars to My Name is Nobody. He has aimed for the heart, and unlike the bad guy in Fistful, he has hit it."--Christopher Frayling, author of Spaghetti Westerns "Very Digestible."--Empire Magazine, August 2006 ''Hughes is well versed in many of the contemporaneous Hollywood western into the bargain, and is particularly good at tracing thematic and narrative connections between Italian offerings and their American antecedents ...Once Upon a Time in the Italian West is a well-researched, enjoyable book that will reward both aficionados of the spaghetti western and readers who'd like to find out more about this too-often neglected sub-genre.'' --Film International

About the Author

Howard Hughes is the author of 'The Pocket Essentials Guide to Spaghetti Westerns' and the forthcoming Crime Wave (I.B.Tauris).