On the heels of the Peplum craze, a related genre, the Spaghetti Western arose and was popular both in Italy and elsewhere.
These films differed from traditional westerns by being filmed in Europe on limited budgets, but featured vivid cinematography.

The most popular Spaghetti Westerns were those of Sergio Leone, whose Dollars Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, an unauthorized remake of the Japanese film Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa; For a Few Dollars More, an original sequel; and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a World-famous prequel), featuring Clint Eastwood as a character marketed as "the Man with No Name" and notorious scores by Ennio Morricone, came to define the genre along with Once Upon a Time in the West.

Another popular Spaghetti Western film is Django, starring Franco Nero as the titular character, another Yojimbo plagiarism, which was followed by both an authorized sequel (Django Strikes Again) and an overwhelming number of unauthorized uses of the same character in other films.
On the heels of the Peplum craze, a related genre, the Spaghetti Western arose and was popular both in Italy and elsewhere. These films differed from traditional westerns by being filmed in Europe on limited budgets, but featured vivid cinematography.
The most popular Spaghetti Westerns were those of Sergio Leone, whose Dollars Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, an unauthorized remake of the Japanese film Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa; For a Few Dollars More, an original sequel; and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a World-famous prequel), featuring Clint Eastwood as a character marketed as "the Man with No Name" and notorious scores by Ennio Morricone, came to define the genre along with Once Upon a Time in the West.
Another popular Spaghetti Western film is Django, starring Franco Nero as the titular character, another Yojimbo plagiarism, which was followed by both an authorized sequel (Django Strikes Again) and an overwhelming number of unauthorized uses of the same character in other films.
Cinema of Italy