Giu' La Testa - Ennio Morricone

By the early-1970’s Sergio Leone was fed up with westerns. He still wrote screenplays for the genre, but as far as he was concerned, he had little desire to get involved with any more of them after Once Upon a Time in the West was made in 1968. Therefore it was with considerable reluctance that he accepted to direct the 1971 film Giù la Testa after the main stars Rod Steiger and James Coburn refused to play in the film unless Leone himself was directing, very much the result of his previous film’s success. Giù la Testa, however, is not a pure spaghetti western, but rather a Zapata western that was a genre popular during the late-1960’s and early-1970’s that took their ...