The Magnificent Seven was based on Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa whose Yojimbo ( The Bodyguard ) was the inspiration ( and later, litigation ) behind a Leone's A Fistful of Dollars.

Both Fonda and Bronson would later star in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ).

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.

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.

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 films and other " core " Spaghetti Westerns are often described as having eschewed, critizised or even " demythologized " many of the conventions of traditional US Westerns.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Before accepting a role as a villain in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry Fonda called Wallach and asked " What the hell does he know about the West?

Yojimbo was also the origin of the " Man with No Name " trend which included Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly both also starring Clint Eastwood, and arguably continued through his 1968 opus Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards.

Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and lighter roles in family comedies like Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball.

* Maximilian " Max " Bercovicz, the gangster played by James Woods in Sergio Leone's opus Once Upon A Time In America was inspired by Meyer Lansky.

One of his favorite roles is Max, the domineering gangster, in Sergio Leone's epic film Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 ).

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 ).

In 1984, she starred in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as Robert De Niro's romantic interest Deborah Gelly.

The New York Observer argues that Leone's direction, Morricone's score and the leads ' performance " ignite an emotional explosion comparable to that of Once Upon a Time in the West ".

He appeared in Francis Coppola's musical Finian's Rainbow ( 1968 ), Sergio Leone's epic western Once Upon a Time in the West ( also 1968 ), and Robert Altman's Nashville ( 1975 ).

In 1984, she appeared in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America, playing a jeweler's secretary who is in on a plan to steal a shipment of diamonds.

Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Pervirella, and many others.

* In Sergio Leone's 1984 film Once Upon A Time in America, the bar in which the five young gang members debate whether to take the dollar the bartender offers them to burn the newsstand or roll the drunk, was filmed inside McSorley's.

The films whose director's cuts Harvey championed, using Z's as a showcase, include: Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, The Ruling Class with Peter O ' Toole, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, Karel Reisz's The Loves of Isadora.

Debuting with director Dino Risi, he then played some minor roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti western movies: A Fistful of Dollars, as Chico ; For a Few Dollars More, as Niño ; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as Corporal Wallace ; and also as a gangster in Once Upon a Time in America.

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.

Other movies that may be considered archetypes of the sub-genre include The Searchers with John Wayne, The Magnificent Seven, Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, The Shootist with John Wayne, and How the West was Won.

Sergio Leone's contribution to the Zapata Western was Duck, You Sucker!

The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, although some notable examples ( e. g. the later Westerns of John Ford or Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven ) are more morally ambiguous.

While early Eurocentric Westerns frequently portray the " Injuns " as dishonorable villains, the later and more culturally neutral Westerns ( notably those directed by John Ford ) gave native Americans a more sympathetic treatment.

* 1961 – 1966 one-hour black-and-white episodes: These episodes have not been widely seen in regular syndication since the 1980s, although selected episodes did air from the mid 1980s through the early 1990s on CBN Cable / The Family Channel, and later on Encore Westerns on a three-year contract that ended circa 2006.

" Others, such as Meirion Harries, state just as unequivocally that the Tanaka Memorial "... was one of the most successful ' dirty tricks ' of the twentieth century – a bogus document so brilliantly conceived that thirty years later Westerns were still being taken in by it ".

A few years later, McCrea united with fellow veteran of Westerns Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country ( 1962 ), directed by Sam Peckinpah, which was to be his last feature film for four years, when he made The Young Rounders ( 1966 ).

Arms began his career on radio, moving up to minor screen roles during World War II as a contract player with Warner Brothers and later as a freelance performer, mostly in Westerns.

In some of his later Westerns, Grey treated Mormon men in a more neutral way, but in Riders of the Purple Sage they are simply villains who use their religion as an excuse for greed and lust.

Since the late 1960s, independent filmmakers have produced revisionist and hallucinogenic films, later identified as acid Westerns, that radically turn the usual trappings of the Western genre inside out to critique capitalism and the counterculture.

After appearing in all three of the Eddie Dean Cinecolor singing Westerns in 1945 / 46, he starred in quirky B-westerns from 1947 to 1951, at first for Poverty Row studio PRC, then to Eagle-Lion when they took over the studio and later for producer Ron Ormond.

The craggy-faced film actor was born in Spokane in eastern Washington State but reared in Montana, having grown up around ranchers and cowboys, an experience that would later inspire his performances in dozens of Westerns.

A young Jack Elam, later widely noted as a character actor in Westerns, appears in an uncredited speaking role.