A Spaghetti Western Roundup at Film Forum - NYTimes.com

No one can say how many there were for sure. Throughout the late 1960s and early ’70s — every European producer had to have at least one western on the runway, if not two. Serial western heroes were created out of thin air. A copyright-lite atmosphere prevailed in Italy, and multiple films were made simultaneously about characters with improbable names: Django, Cjamango, Sartana, Sabata, Arizona Colt. Most of these pictures were all-Italian, quickly shot in studios just outside Rome. Some were bigger-scale affairs, with international casts, exteriors in Spain, and money from German and — eventually — American studios.

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