Covering the key Italian Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the mythical Spaghetti West. Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy led the field but many more major Spaghetti Westerns were made by important directors, including Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe , Carlo Lizzani's The Hills Run Red , Duccio Tessari's A Pistol for Ringo . Combining analysis, information and lively anecdotes, this popular guide explores all of these films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of each production, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information and many illustrations, including original posters and stills.Key films featured include The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars, The Big Silence, Django, My Name is Nobody, A Bullet for the General, The Big Gundown, Face to Face and  They Call Me Trinity. *Howard Hughes has written a well-researched, detailed, no-nonsense and above all enthusiastic guide to twenty of the best Italian Westerns from A Fistful of Dollars to My Name is Nobody . He has aimed for the heart, and unlike the bad guy in Fistful, he has hit it.*--Christopher Frayling, author of Spaghetti Westerns *Very Digestible.*-- Empire Magazine, August 2006 ''Hughes is well versed in many of the contemporaneous Hollywood western into the bargain, and is particularly good at tracing thematic and narrative connections between Italian offerings and their American antecedents … Once Upon a Time in the Italian West is a well-researched, enjoyable book that will reward both aficionados of the spaghetti western and readers who’d like to find out more about this too-often neglected sub-genre.'' -- Film International Howard Hughes is the writer-researcher of Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood and the Filmgoers' Guide series: Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies and  Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns. He is also the author of the Kamera Books guide to Spaghetti Westerns and the Pocket Essential American Indian Wars.