Friday, August 23, 2024

New British Kindle book release For a Few Dollars More in Almería: Where Spain staged the spaghetti western

 








For a Few Dollars More in Almería: Where Spain staged the spaghetti western

Author: Terence Denman


Country: England

Publisher: Independently published

Format: Kindle

Language: English

Pages: 135 pages

ASIN: ‎B0D6YHXDT5

ISBN-13: ‎979-8328342728

Available: June 12, 2024

 

In the 1960s and 1970s, Almería, the poorest and most isolated part of Spain, gave its stunning landscape, historic architecture and sun-drenched climate to the spaghetti western. Over 150 westerns filmed wholly or partly there, including most of the acknowledged masterpieces of the genre, such as Sergio Leone's 'Dollars Trilogy'. Almería, for a glorious few years, became the 'Spanish Hollywood'. Cinema had a major impact on the area's economy and social life. This book, drawing largely on Spanish and Italian sources, looks in detail at the relationship between Almería and the western: from The Savage Guns of 1961, when a British director rode the cowboys into town, to Silver Saddle of 1977, when an Italian director rode them into the sunset.

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