MOVIES: What Is A Spaghetti Western?

Lee Van Cleef: Day Of Anger

People often ask what is a Spaghetti Western?

A Spaghetti Western is an Italian form of old west movies that started in the 1960s.

Spaghetti Westerns were made popular starting with the movie "Fistful Of Dollars" by Clint Eastwood.

Italian directors made their own versions of The American "old west" using Italy as movie sets to capture the look and feel of the old west in the United States.

Although Spaghetti Westerns take place in America in the United States during the old west with American Actors the movies were actually filmed in Italy.

The term "spaghetti" comes from Italy and is slang for Italian Spaghetti the food from Italy, the slang means spaghetti and meatballs mixed with western movies.

"Day Of Anger" Starring Lee Van Cleef 1967 fresh off the set of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly":

I watched this movie and it's kind of upsetting, the boy follows the outlaw and gets his to teach him lessons then later he doesn't agree with his tactics and wants to fight him, then I think this makes him upset about guns and the movie kind of an anti gun / violence film.

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