Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sergio Leone was born Jan. 3, 1929; he would have been 90 this week. Though he directed only seven films, their impact has been ...

In Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone slyly turned all-American everyman Henry Fonda into a despicable, ...

Sergio Leone single-handedly directed seven movies, and five of them were westerns. I think it's important to note that this is technically known as a Zapata Western rather than a Spaghetti Western, ...

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 ...

The Hollywood Western, as a genre, is a realm of fantasy. Once Upon a Time in the West is, in its pseudo-realistic way a fantasy superimposed on that general fantasy. Sergio Leone is the best-known of ...

Here’s something that can not be disputed: Sergio Leone is the man responsible for the greatest Westerns of all time. The stoic art form native to America (but ripped off from Japan) was actually ...

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 ...

The late director invented the "spaghetti western" genre with such films as “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor LONDON – Leone Film Group, the company that owns ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

Hollywood is seeing an uptake in Westerns. Quentin Tarantino gave us both Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight in the last five years, the labored production of Jane Got a Gun finally bore fruit, ...