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Groundbreaking 'spaghetti westerns' such as the 'Dollars' trilogy (starring Clint Eastwood as 'The Man With No Name'), and the magisterial Once Upon A Time In The West, made Sergio Leone one of the most popular directors in world cinema. Christopher Frayling's biography of Leone (the first) lovingly explores his body of work, and casts light upon the previously little-known details of his life. Leone was born into movies, his father a popular director of the silent era. Obsessed by the illusory worlds of cinema and theatre, captivated by the myths of the American West, young Sergio embarked on a fabulous career of his own. He made an icon out of the initially reluctant Clint Eastwood, and dallied with the Hollywood studio system, but always stuck to his guns: the gangster epic Once Upon A Time In America consumed 15 years of his life. But Leone's passion made for extraordinary cinema: a widely-adored collection of films, about which Frayling provides an unprecedented wealth of extensively-researched analysis and anecdotage.

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This biography of Leone is a must for anyone who spent their adolescence in a smelly old singleplex cinema watching Clint Eastwood dispatching villains in Spaghetti Westerns. Or for that matter anyone with an interest in contemporary cinema. My favourite movie of all time The Wild Bunch would probably never have been made if it hadn't been for Leone, so I am eternally grateful to him for that at least, apart from the pleasure his films have given me over the years. The complete filmography at the end is worth the price of admission alone. Recommended. (Kirkus UK)

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Sir Christopher Frayling is Rector and Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art. He is the author of Vampyres, The Face of Tutankhamun, Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death, and Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design

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