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Eli Wallach as Tuco, holding a revolver and smiling, sits beside Clint Eastwood, both wearing wide-brimmed hats in a desert scene from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Claudia Cardinale as Jill McBain in Once Upon a Time in the West, wearing a dark dress and lying on wooden planks in a dusty, Western landscape. Director Sergio Leone, wearing glasses, gives instructions to Clint Eastwood and Margarita Lozano during a dramatic scene on the set of A Fistful of Dollars. A Fistful of Dollars Uma Thurman as the Bride in a yellow jumpsuit stands with a sword among defeated opponents in an action scene from Kill Bill: Volume 1.

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  • Laura Payne
    Laura Payne is a freelance writer whose work covers many topics. She is a former Wayne State University linguistics instructor.

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Add new Web site: Digital Commons at DU - ICCTA Preemption: The Spaghetti Western Staring Solid Waste (PDF). Jan 17, 2026
Add new Web site: University College Cork, Ireland - Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema, by Austin Fisher (PDF). Nov 21, 2025
Add new Web site: Liveabout - What Is a Spaghetti Western? Sep 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Introduction to 'Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation (PDF). Jun 07, 2025
New article added. Apr 29, 2025
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