When I first heard about this list this morning I could have sworn it was old news, but as it turns out, this list of Quentin Tarantino‘s top 20 spaghetti westerns is a new thing as presented to us bt Spaghetti-Western.net. What I must have been thinking of was a list of spaghetti westerns that influenced Tarantino’s Django Unchained, some of which are repeated here such as Sergio Corbucci‘s The Great Silence (read an essay I wrote on this one here) and the obvious, Django, and Giulio Petroni‘s Death Rides a Horse. However, this list is more than that and more than just Sergio Leone and Corbucci titles, though those two do make up eight of the twenty films on Tarantino’s list.
I haven’t looked to see how many of the more obscure titles listed here are available on Netflix, but I have a feeling now that this list is out there there will be some longer wait times on a couple of them soon enough.
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone, 1966)
- For a Few Dollars More (dir. Sergio Leone, 1965)
- Django (dir. Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
- The Mercenary (dir. Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (dir. Sergio Leone, 1968)
- A Fistful of Dollars (dir. Sergio Leone, 1964)
- Day of Anger (dir. Tonino Valerii, 1967)
- Death Rides a Horse (dir. Giulio Petroni, 1967)
- Navajo Joe (dir. Sergio Corbucci,1966)
- The Return of Ringo (dir. Duccio Tessar, 1965)
- The Big Gundown (dir. Sergio Sollima, 1966)
- A Pistol for Ringo (dir. Duccio Tessari, 1965)
- The Dirty Outlaws (dir. Franco Rossetti, 1967)
- The Great Silence (dir. Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
- The Grand Duel (dir. Giancarlo Santi, 1972)
- Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead (dir. Giuseppe Vari, 1971)
- Tepepa (dir. Giulio Petroni, 1968)
- The Ugly Ones (dir. Eugenio Martin, 1966)
- Viva Django! (dir. Ferdinando Baldi, 1967)
- Machine Gun Killers (dir. Paolo Bianchini, 1968)
