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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherAbrams, Inc.
ISBN-100810958848
ISBN-139780810958845
eBay Product ID (ePID)43892438
Product Key Features
Book TitleOnce Upon a Time in Italy : the Westerns of Sergio Leone
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicFilm / Genres / Westerns, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts
AuthorChristopher Frayling
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight42 Oz
Item Length10.5 in
Item Width8.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-026343
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromEighth Grade
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal791.4302/33/092
SynopsisIn the mid-1960s an unknown Italian film director named Sergio Leone was given $200,000 and some leftover film stock, and he went to make a Western. With an American TV actor named Clint Eastwood and a script based on a samurai epic, Leone wound up creating "A Fistful of Dollars", the first in a trilogy of films (with "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly") that was violent, cynical, and visually stunning. Along with his later masterpiece, "Once Upon a Time in the West", these films came to define the Spaghetti Western