The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most of these Westerns were produced and directed by Italians.
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum.
Emilio Salgari was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction.
Carlo Rustichelli was an Italian film composer whose career spanned the 1940s to about 1990. His prolific output included about 250 film compositions, as well as arrangements for other films, and music for television.
Ken Parker is a fictional character from a series of eponym Italian comics created in 1974 by Giancarlo Berardi and Ivo Milazzo. He is a widely appreciated character in Italy and all over former Yugoslavia.
Torri del Benaco is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 130 kilometres west of Venice and about 30 km (19 mi) northwest of Verona, on the eastern coast of the Lake Garda.
Pace del Mela is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Messina.
San Filippo del Mela is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Messina.
Hunters of the Golden Cobra is an Italian 1982 action film starring David Warbeck. It was directed by Antonio Margheriti, and is one of several Italian imitations of Raiders of the Lost Ark, shot in an exotic location involving the recovery of supernatural relics.
"Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" is a short story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, originally published in 1944 in number 112 of the review Sur.
The Hero of Little Italy is a 1913 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet.
Honeymoon Deferred is a 1951 British-Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Sally Ann Howes, Griffith Jones, and Kieron Moore.
Edmondo Amati was an Italian film producer. He produced 55 films between 1964 and 1984, including Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005), U-571 (2000), Golden Balls (1993), Cannibals in the Streets (1980), L'ultimo squalo (1980), Holocaust 2000 (1978), Strange Shadows in an Empty Room (1976), L'anticristo (1974), Romanzo popolare (1974), Polvere di stelle (1973), Il Consigliori (1973), Sette scialli di seta gialla (1972) and In nome del popolo italiano (1971).
Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West is a 1964 Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Mario Costa.
The Trojan Horse is a 1961 Italian peplum film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the Trojan hero Aeneas during this time. The film was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and stars Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus.
Mario Costa was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter, active from 1934 to 1971.
Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Lino Del Fra. It was awarded with the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.
The Heroes is a 1973 Italian war-comedy film directed by Duccio Tessari.
Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules is a 1962 peplum film directed by Mario Caiano.
Ugo Sasso, born Domenico Pasquale Giuseppe Sasso, was an Italian film and television actor.
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