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The Westerns of Sergio Leone
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
July 2005
240 pages
ISBN: 0810958848
Hardcover
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Historical | Non-Fiction
In the mid-1960s an unknown Italian film director named
Sergio Leone was given $200,000 and some leftover film
stock, and he went to make a Western. With an American TV
actor named Clint Eastwood and a script based on a samurai
epic, Leone wound up creating A Fistful of Dollars, the
first in a trilogy of films (with For a Few Dollars More and
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) that was violent, cynical,
and visually stunning. Along with his later masterpiece,
Once Upon a Time in the West, these films came to define the
"Spaghetti Western," a genre that has influenced such
contemporary filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, John Woo, and
Quentin Tarantino. Written by the preeminent Leone scholar, this is the first
illustrated book to focus on his Westerns, illuminating his
visual style, offbeat sense of humor, and sophisticated,
elliptical way of telling stories. Augmenting the text are a
wealth of visual materials, as well as interviews with
Leone, Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Bernardo
Bertolucci, composer Ennio Morricone, designer Carlo Simi,
and others. The book accompanies an exhibition with the same
title opening in July 2005 at the Autry National Center's
Museum of the American West in Los Angeles.
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