Watched some westerns the last couple of days. All of European production, mostly Italian:
A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe
A mid-70s western comedy starring the great Terence Hill doing his high energy antics, with a great supporting cast including Patrick McGoohan as the villain. It is also the last western film Sergio Leone worked on, working on the story, producing and even directing the opening scene. Not to mention the music by Ennio Morricone, fantastic as usual.
God Forgives, I Don't
This was Terence Hill's first leading role in a western, and also his first film with co-star Bud Spencer. This was not a comedy, though, but a serious action western with quite the body count, although the movie was later re-edited and re-dubbed in Germany to turn it into a similar comedy that made Hill & Spencer so popular in the 70s and 80s. The villain was played by Frank Wolff, who went on to appear in two more high-profile Italian westerns, in The Great Silence as the by-the-book Sheriff Burnett, and in Once Upon A Time... In The West as the doomed Farmer McBain.
A Fistful of Dollars
Don't think I need to say much about this one. It's on German Netflix, so might as well watch it again.
The Dark Valley
This one is a bit of the odd one out, as it is not only the most recent film on the list (from 2014), but it's also the only non-Italian film. And not only is this film from Austria, it actually is set in the Austrian Alps, yet from all aspects, plot, characters, and look, it is undeniably a western. It's been described as an Alpine Western, and yeah, that fits. Great movie, too, with British actor Sam Riley (who speaks very good German) as a greatly conflicted anti hero, and a fantastic Tobias Moretti doing a lot of the heavy lifting on the part of the villains.