Film List italo Western incl. FREE STREAMS 

The Italo Western is unmistakably a child of the 60s when the sons rebelled against the fathers. Those who liked John Ford and Howard Hawks had to be suspicious of Italo Western because they did not build up myths but destroyed them. Even before Leone's Dollar Trilogy, 25 Italo Western were created, then more than 500. While old masters like John Ford and Henry Hathaway tried to revive the traditional Western again and went into revision, those small dirty films were created in the mid 60s, which played in border states of the USA, but had nothing to do with the old West. Banal the reasons that led to the birth of the new genre: In Italy, the wave of sandal films in the late 50s was fading away, a new scheme had to be found, and in a country on the Mediterranean coast it looks similar to Arizona or New Mexico. Leone, Corbucci and Tessari, however, created something completely their own, designed heroes without morals or scruples, arranged climax after climax and did not always let the good ones win. After the Dollar Trilogy and Django, the world was no longer the same, at least not the Western world. Already at the end of the 60's influences of the Italo Western can be found in Hollywood, for example in Don Siegels Two mules for Sister Sara. Since the shock of Corbuccis Il grande silenzio, the question of whether the Italo Western is independent or a bastard is turning in circles: "Never worked out what", Eastwood is said to have said about the production of the low budget strips and that answers this question more than enough.