As winter slips away and spring quickly approaches, let’s pay tribute to the great outdoors and wide open spaces featured in the panoramas of great Westerns. In this month’s movie roundup, I salute a list of my favorite Westerns – some classics and some little-known gems. Here they are, in no particular order:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) – The ultimate spaghetti Western is directed by Sergio Leone and stars Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach as the title characters. Film music maestro Ennio Morricone composed the film’s iconic score. This enduring blockbuster serves as the third and final installment in the Dollars Trilogy, following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. Admittedly, this series helped to propel Clint Eastwood to superstardom. More than 50 years after its release, it is revered as one of the greatest and most influential Westerns of the silver screen.
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