Sergio Leone was born Jan. 3, 1929; he would have been 90 this week. Though he directed only seven films, their impact has been wide and long-lasting, including making Clint Eastwood a star. On Oct.

How could it be that one of the greatest directors known for directing films about the American west was not an American himself? Sergio Leone was born in 1929 in Rome, Italy to parents already ...

Clint Eastwood passed on reuniting with Dollars trilogy auteur Sergio Leone on his following Westerns, as the star felt "... there was no challenge for me anymore." After a lengthy stint on TV series ...

Italian screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni, who worked with Billy Wilder and Dino De Laurentiis and co-penned Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns “For a Few Dollars More” and “The Good, the Bad and the ...

The Italian film-maker overcame the language barrier with his actors by using mime, as revealed in previously unseen photographs They made their names with A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a series ...

Sergio Leone, a born-and-bred Italian, is the father of a distinctly American genre: the spaghetti Western. His Dollars trilogy is practically ingrained in the national consciousness, his characters ...

The best way to find a good guy in the westerns of director Sergio Leone is to look for a worse guy. The Italian director’s penchant for blurring the lines between heroes and villains stood in stark ...