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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