10 Types Of Movies You Don't See Any More

Westerns that did mediocre business in the United States were often smash hits in Europe, where production costs were lower, so producing such films in Italy made economic sense, especially after Sergio Leone’s A Fistful Of Dollars made $5 million on a budget of $245,000.

Described by one critic as “violent, amoral, surrealistic, noisy, naïve, pretentious, ridiculed, revered and astonishingly popular and lucrative pastiches of the hallowed American westerns”, Spaghetti westerns typically feature an American star (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef) surrounded by Italian actors or, failing that, home grown thespians such as Franco Nero. Since the pictures were dubbed for American release, the cast’s different nationalities were never an issue.

Leone’s Dollars trilogy usually steals the limelight, but the likes of Cemetery Without Crosses, Four Of The Apocalypse and Adios Sabata (with Yul Bryner) are also worth your time. Titles such as I Go, I See, I Shoot and Heads You Die, Tails I Kill You might seem like spoofs, but they actually exist.