Stamp marks 30th anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death. The
great director who created the Spaghetti Western genre
The Italian post office issued a stamp Tuesday April 30,
2019 to mark the 30th anniversary of great director Sergio Leone.
The stamp shows the baddie from his masterpiece One Upon
A Time In The West played by Henry Fond.
Leone, who died on April 30, 1989 aged 60, was credited
as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre starring Clint Eastwood.
Leone's pioneering film-making style included juxtaposing
extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His movies included the sword
and sandal action films “The Last Days of Pompeii” (1959) and “The Colossus of
Rhodes” (1961), the Dollars Trilogy of Westerns featuring Clint Eastwood: “A
Fistful of Dollars” (1964), “For a Few Dollars More” (1965) and “The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly” (1966); “Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968); “Duck, You
Sucker!” (1971) and the crime drama “Once Upon a Time in America” (1984), with
Robert De Niro and James Woods.
Where can I buy this issue?
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