Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” has died.

Referencing the classic Italian pasta spaghetti dish, the phrase signified movie Westerns made in Italy. Also known as ...

And so by 1970, four years removed from Eastwood’s final western in Italy, the now hugely popular action star could make whatever kinds of movies he wanted.

Here are the best Western movies ever: ... Highly influential on much of Sam Peckinpah’s work, specifically The Wild Bunch, and many of the Italian Westerns made the following decade, ...

Many of the best Western movies were made a long time ago. The genre goes back almost as far as the medium of film, with one ...

For a fictional movie-within-the-movie, an Italian Western, Tarantino needed a vintage poster. So, he turned to a vintage artist. Renato Casaro's poster for an imagined Rick Dalton film.

The Actors Studio alum, billed as Hunt Powers when he was working in those Italian films, also did lots of soap operas.

Additionally, what made Italian Westerns more visceral than their American counterpart was the former’s use of stinging electric guitars in their soundtracks, a noise that made the legend of ...

Opened in 1973, the theme park was inspired by classic American and Italian Western movies — but it closed because of competition from Tokyo Disneyland, per SWNS.

Once disparaged as "spaghetti Westerns," Leone's films helped revive the genre, and ushered in a unique visual style. In 2005, cultural historian Christopher Frayling reflected on Leone's influence.