![]() Some went for the action, some for the comedy, some for the sex, and some even worked in some decent film-making along the way. Nobody was really counting the gaffes anymore and as such directors could pull out all the stops and go for broke without sweating issues like authenticity. It seems as though the success of Leone's movie served to liberate the genre, and between 19 or so there were scores of extremely low budget Spaghetti's made right at home in Italy, no need to even traipse to Spain for exteriors. Pepper in some name brand American faces to ensure good box office and Sergio Leone and company could blow away anything coming out of the states at the same time, aside from Peckinpah. This is one of the finest examples of the post-1970 "later period" Spaghetti Western, a particularly interesting period of the genre defined by ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST's effect of finally proving that a truly great John Ford era Oater could in fact be made by & with primarily Europeans.
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