Tripping Through Gateways
Entering the Alternate Worlds of the Movies
Tag: Ennio Morricone
A Looooong Time Ago (Once Upon a Time In the West, 1968)
Once Upon a Time In the West specializes in a big trait of Sergio Leone’s work…patience. The film opens with a scene of three men waiting for a train to arrive. Everything is quiet, with hardly a word spoken. Only the sounds of a…
Fistful of Spaghetti Pt 4 (Duck, You Sucker, 1971)
Originally called a Fistful of Dynamite, Duck, You Sucker is Sergio Leone’s fourth Spaghetti Western, the first without Clint Eastwood. While a certainly more “poetic” title, Fistful of Dynamite suggests a tie to the Man With No Name films when one does not exist….
Cold Hard Spaghetti Pt 3 (The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, 1966)
The third film in the Man With No Name trilogy finds Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef returning. Interestingly, Van Cleef is playing a different character in this film. This time around he is the untrustworthy villain Angel Eyes. Eastwood’s Blondie (the film’s “Good”)…
Cold Hard Spaghetti Pt 2 (For a Few Dollars More, 1965)
Eastwood returns for another round as the Man With No Name. For a few Dollars More finds him living the life of a bounty hunter. The film opens by introducing us to Col Douglas Mortimer. On a train a man is trying to talk…
Cold Hard Spaghetti Pt 1 (A Fistful of Dollars, 1964)
A quiet drifter gets caught up in the local politics between two families of the town of San Miguel. Playing both sides, he seeks to make, well, a fistful of dollars. While Eastwood built up some fame through the late fifties, especially with Rawhide,…
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