Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Bonanza, The Big Valley and
Have Gun Will Travel on the TV dial. In Italy, TV was still a bit of a mess and so the people of Rome, Naples and Milan preferred to get their primetime entertainment in the local cinemas. Instead of begging Hollywood to give them more tales of the Wild West, the Italian producers found international actors that could ride horses and they rode off to Spain to create a hundreds of films that entertained the Western fans all over of Europe. Sergio Leone’s
Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood became a big enough hit that it conquered America in 1967. This set the expectations of filmmakers to create films that would feature characters and action that be sensational around the globe. Producer Manolo Bolognini was eager to make a Western and approached director Sergio Corbucci to create his own cinematic legend in a cowboy hat. Corbucci used this shot to give the world the gunman that not merely challenged Leone’s Man With No Name, but created an entire subgenre of Westerns that even Quentin Tarantino had to be a part of. When