Hello, my name Justin Cluiter, I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're going to the West,

the Spaghetti West.

Sorry, I'm just, I'm just chuckling at that intro. Normally I would interject here with some continuation of that thought.

And you know what?

I still can.

That's right.

We're talking about spaghetti westerns.

The wave of Italian-produced Western films that lasted from approximately 1964 with the emergence of Sergio Leone's A Fistful

of Dollars starring Clint Eastwood all the way deep, deep into the 1970s. But, you know, the golden

period was the 60s. Pretty much when the 70s arrived, the Spaghetti Westerns, while there were

still some that were being made, they were not

as popular, even close as they were in the late 60s when people were writing that Leone train. And,

you know, if people think there's a lot of superhero movies, oh man, there are hundreds,

thousands of spaghetti westerns that were cranked out by Italy and Spain, just swarming the

screens, an amount that is honestly

unbelievable that like sometimes I'll run into a new spaghetti Western that's great, that I've

never heard of. And I'm like, how is this possible? Now, when we say spaghetti Western, I think

most people, even just your ordinary Jane and Joe popcorn on the street, understand what

we mean. We're thinking Clint Eastwood wearing that hat. We're thinking, wha, wah, wah,

in your morricone score. Basically, those are the things that we're thinking of. And in fact,

I think, like in the popular, and like in a way,

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