Spaghetti Westerns & American Myth: The Wild West Through Italian Eyes [Part 3 of4]

The Collector By Katrina Funk October 4, 2025 American vs. Italian Westerns: The Good, the Bad, and the Selfish A Fistful of Dollars’ gritty, tense atmosphere, as exemplified in the opening scene, made it stand apart from American Westerns. Leone’s characters seem to straddle the line between good and evil, and their actions are often selfishly motivated. Leone did not shy away from stark…