It was the innovations in cinematic style, music, acting and story of leone's first western that decided that spaghetti westerns became a distinct subgenre and not just a number of films looking like … Spaghetti westerns emerged during the 1960s as a european reimagining of the classic american western. The genre got its start as hollywood’s interest in westerns began to wane after decades of …

The early films in this genre were often an attempt to imitate the success …