Sergio Leone

...struggle between two rival families to earn money. This movie was the first to unite Eastwood and Italian director Sergio Leone, and offers the debut of Eastwood's iconic Man with No Name. Eastwood became an international star following the...

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...Huston and Don Siegel. Kaminsky supplied the dialogue for Sergio Leone's gangland epic "Once Upon a Time in America," and produced harrowing thrillers such as "When the Dark Man Calls" and "Exercise in Terror." He also wrote novelized...

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...anti-hero. Establishing Eastwood's character from the opening scene, director Sergio Leone follows the enigmatic traveler to a well, where he stops for a drink of water, and is then begrudgingly dragged into a small-town gang war. Playing on...

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...as diverse as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Peter Bogdanovich, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, Pedro Costa, David Lean, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder,...

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...for stunning settings. David Lean shot some of Lawrence Of Arabia here and, most memorably, Sergio Leone picked this spot to make the Spaghetti Westerns that made his name and turned Clint Eastwood into a superstar. The bright sunshine gave...

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...More and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Critics largely scorned Leone's "spaghetti westerns" when they were first released in the United States, condemning their grittiness and violence. The films were popular with American audiences,...

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...won him international acclaim. Eastwood was impressed by the amount of freedom Leone had to make pictures, so he decided to form his own production company, allowing him to direct and star in his own films. Eastwood's Malpaso Company began...

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