Spaghetti Westerns--the Good the Bad and the Violent

<p> Spaghetti Westerns--mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe--were bleaker rougher grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns focusing on heroes only slightly less evil than the villains. After a main filmography covering 558 Spaghetti Westerns another section provides filmographies of personnel--actors and actresses directors musical composers scriptwriters cinematographers. Appendices provide lists of the popular Django films and the Sartana films a listing of U.S.-made Spaghetti Western lookalikes top ten and twenty lists and a list of the genre's worst.</p>