Welcome to our first Cinema of the Sixties Movie Night! We start off with the first of the Spaghetti Westerns: Fistful of Dollars starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone. This movie is a hard break from the honorable heroes of the 1950's when cowboys were like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, John Wayne, and even Howdy Doody! Those heroic cowboys could do no wrong, they were the contemporary virtuous knights in shining spurs that always triumphed over evil and rescued the damsels in distress. The man with no name in the Spaghetti Westerns is not so virtuous, not at all noble, but still a hero worth rooting for nonetheless. As the world grew up and faced the hard realities of adult life, so did westerns and many other movies too. If you want to hear us discuss other movies from the 60's, or about the 60's, let us know! Special thanks to mixkit for letting us use their song Out of This World for this episode.
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