A bit of mystery surrounds the once popular genre of films, indelicately called Spaghetti Westerns during their heyday. For many years, a trilogy of films starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone were considered among the first of a new breed of Western. The first of these, A Fistful of Dollars, was like the noted horror film Halloween. Fistful became the model for hundreds of Italian Westerns. Halloween became the grandparent of a never-ending string of boogey man movies. Other
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