Prime Video Officially Revives the Western Quentin Tarantino Calls a Masterpiece

If Quentin Tarantino can have a top-five list of Filipino movies, you best be sure that he has a number-one, number-two, and even number-eight favorite spaghetti Western. Tarantino has often described The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as "the best-directed film" of all time. Helmed by Sergio Leone, the film starred Clint Eastwood and was largely responsible for bringing the spaghetti Western sub-genre to audiences across the world. Produced in Italy as an alternative to the more conventional American Westerns, these movies often dealt with political themes and toyed with Western tropes. Despite his love for Leone, however, Tarantino has long been a champion of "the other Sergio," a filmmaker who directed many of Tarantino's favorite spaghetti Westerns.

We're talking about Sergio Corbucci, whose work Tarantino paid overt homage to in Django Unchained and also in The Hateful Eight. Now, one of Corbucci's most memorable movies, one that Tarantino personally ranks fourth on his list of favorite spaghetti Westerns, is streaming for new audiences to discover on Prime Video. The movie in question was released in 1968, two years after Corbucci rose to prominence with the movie Django. Interestingly, it could also be categorized as a zapata Western, given its production was spread between Italy and Spain.