Leichen Pflastern Seinen Ruhm - Dokumention über italo - Western
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Around the year 1964 the Italian film industry was in a severe crisis.
There was almost a total stop production: "A complete disaster!"
When I was shooting "A Fistful of Dollars", only four films was in production in the Italian studios at that time.
We made Western because it was mainstream, for satisfying the taste of a mass audience, for being successful.
The Germans had created with the Karl May movies, the first Euro Westerns - we targeted straight to the international market.
The success was unbelievable. Sergio Leone (Italian film director).
excerpt from the Movie "The Mercenary"
also known as A Professional Gun, from 1968
with Franco Nero, Tony Musante and Jack Palance
Corpses pave his fame.
Documentary about Spaghetti-Western. From 1972.
from Mario Cortesi (director)
