Fistful of Dynamite, A (DVD)

Made in 1971 this is one of the later Sergio Leone ‘Spaghetti’ westerns so called because these films made in the 60’s and 70’s were Italian production of the classic American western genre. To begin with it was supposed to be directed by Giancarlo Santi and later by Peter Bogdanovich but the two big name stars Rod Steiger and James Coburn who had expected Leone to be in charge objected and so Leone was forced to come take over. By this time the Spaghetti western genre had developed quite a bit from the dollar trilogy. The films had in the late 60’s proved themselves very bankable and the directors like Leone could afford known Hollywood stars rather than the untried ...