Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.

Other early films include The Lineup, The Misfits, The Magnificent Seven ( he portrayed the Mexican bandit Calvera ), Lord Jim as the General, a comic role in How to Steal a Million ( the latter two with Peter O ' Toole ), and perhaps most famously, as Tuco ( the ' Ugly ') in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

With his roles in Leone's films, Van Cleef became a major star of Spaghetti Westerns, playing central roles in films such as Death Rides a Horse, Day of Anger, The Big Gundown and The Sabata Trilogy.

Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success.

The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films.

Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars and the following films in his Dollars trilogy created the Spaghetti Western as a novel kind of Western.

For many critics, Sergio Leone's films were part of the problem.

Leone's Dollars Trilogy ( 1964 – 1967 ) was neither the entirety nor the beginning of the " spaghetti Western " cycle in Italy, but for Americans Leone's films represented the true beginning of the Italian invasion of their privileged cultural form.

Likewise, after 1965 when Leone's second Western For a Few Dollars More brought a still larger box office bonanza, bounty killer suddenly became the choice profession of Spaghetti Western heroes in films like Arizona Colt, Vengeance is Mine, 10. 000 Dollars Blood Money, The Ugly Ones, Cry for Revenge, Any Gun Can Play.

The influence of these films is most apparent in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars ( 1964 ) starring Clint Eastwood and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing ( 1996 ).

Leone's next two films – For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) – completed what has come to be known as the Man with No Name trilogy ( a. k. a. the Dollars Trilogy ), with each film being more financially successful and more technically accomplished than its predecessor.

He rose to fame for playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ) during the late 1960s, and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films ( Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool ) throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

He appeared in several Italian films, including Hands Over the City ( 1963 ) and Lucky Luciano ( 1974 ) ( both Francesco Rosi's ), and also Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite ( 1971 ).

The protagonist Roland Deschain is a gunslinger whose image and personality are largely inspired by the " Man with No Name " from Sergio Leone's films.

Margheriti also collaborated on the special effects in two Italian cult films which he did not direct, Sergio Leone's " Fistful of Dynamite " ( 1971 ) and Aldo Lado's " The Humanoid " ( 1979 ).

Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in some of the most acclaimed Italian and European films of the period, including Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli ( Rocco and His Brothers 1960 ) and Il Gattopardo ( The Leopard, 1963 ), Philippe de Broca's Cartouche ( 1963 ), Federico Fellini's Otto e mezzo ( 8½ 1963 ), and Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ).

Many other films have paid tribute to Leone's film.

In addition, some of the early epic westerns, such as The Magnificent Seven and Leone's spaghetti westerns, were influenced by Akira Kurosawa's samurai films, such as Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Sanjuro.

Leone's films were made like that because he wanted the music to be an important part of it, and he often kept the scenes longer simply because he didn't want the music to end.

The film drew heavily from the conventions of Western films, especially Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, such as Once Upon a Time in the West, and John Sturges ' film The Magnificent Seven, itself being a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.

The man with no name () is a stock character in Western films, but the term usually applies specifically to the character played by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's " Dollars Trilogy.

Leone's collaborators Donati and Vincenzoni, noting the director's frequent embellishment of the facts concerning his films, claim that Peckinpah did not even consider it-Donati claimed Peckinpah was " too shrewd to be produced by a fellow director ".

Sierra Leone's dense tropical rainforest partly isolated it from other precolonial African cultures and from the spread of Islam.

" Frayling and other film scholars such as Bondanella argue that this revisionism was the key to Leone's success and, to some degree, to that of the spaghetti Western genre as a whole.

Leone's other productions included A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe ( 1975, another western comedy starring Terence Hill ); The Cat ( Il Gatto ; 1977, starring Ugo Tognazzi ), and A Dangerous Toy ( Il Giocattolo ; 1979, starring Nino Manfredi ).

Stephen King has acknowledged multiple sources of influence for this story, including Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, its stepchild The Magnificent Seven, Sergio Leone's " Man with No Name " trilogy, and other works by Howard Hawks and John Sturges, among others.

Leone did not speak English, and Eastwood communicated with the Italian cast and crew mostly through stuntman Benito Stefanelli, who also acted as an unlicensed interpreter for the production and would later appear in Leone's other pictures.

failed to gain any substantial recognition from the critics at the time of debut, especially compared to Leone's other films, winning him only a David di Donatello for Best Director.

Outside of Mexico he worked on more than 60 other films, including the disaster movie The Towering Inferno and western El Topo, as well as Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.

Sierra Leone's national radio and televesion stations, SLBS are on the air in the city, as well as The BBC world service, CNN International, and several other private stations are on the air for those who have satellite.

Sierra Leone's national radio and television stations, SLBC ( Sierra Leone Broadcasting Cooperation ) are on the air in the city, as well as The BBC World Service, CNN International, and several other private stations are on the air for those who have satellite.

Krio is spoken by 97 % of Sierra Leone's population and unites the different ethnic groups in the country, especially in their trade and social interaction with each other.

Another notable part was as a gunslinger in the opening sequence of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ); after this, he appeared in several other spaghetti Westerns of lesser quality.

The shoot-out that ends Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western " Dollars " trilogy is a notable example of how these elements work together to produce an effect: The shot selection goes from very wide to very close and tense ; the length of shots decreases as the sequence progresses towards its end ; the music builds.

Spaghetti Westerns also began featuring a pair of different heroes – In Leone's film Eastwood's character is an unshaven bounty hunter dressed similarly to his character in A Fistful of Dollars who enters an unstable partnership with Mortimer, an older bounty killer who uses more sophisticated weaponry and wears a suit ( Lee van Cleef ).

Other successful projects backed in this period included Blake Edwards's Pink Panther series, which began in 1964, and Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, which made a star of Clint Eastwood.

The band had a " dust and death " image, associated with characters from Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns and often wore cowboy dusters with a weather-beaten look during photoshoots.

Not technically a " Spaghetti Western ", Man was filmed in the rugged highlands near the desert-like Spanish terrain seen in many of Sergio Leone's Italo westerns.

Other Spaghetti westerns, namely, Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) and Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ), contained more subtle political elements which were not the driving part of the main story.

However in the following years the mode of cunning and irony became more prominent, not least under influence of Leone's next two Westerns, with their emphasis on unstable partnerships.

Leone's later Westerns Once Upon a Time in the West, Duck, You Sucker!

Leone's intent was to take the stock conventions of the American Westerns of John Ford, Howard Hawks and others, and rework them in an ironic fashion, essentially reversing their intended meaning in their original sources to create a darker connotation.

Stander stayed in Europe and eventually settled in Rome, where he appeared in many spaghetti Westerns, most notably playing a bartender named Max in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.

Many DVD editions have been transferred this way and the results have frequently been stunning, i. e. Blue Underground's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and MGM's special editions of Sergio Leone's Westerns.