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Another random famous person listicle, sorry! But this is an interesting list - Quentin Tarantino's twenty favourite Spaghetti Westerns. And the sort of thing that will keep Stark busy:

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
2. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
3. Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
4. The Mercenary (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
5. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
6. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)
7. Day of Anger (Tonino Valerii, 1967)
8. Death Rides a Horse (Giulio Petroni, 1967)
9. Navajo Joe (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
10. The Return of Ringo (Duccio Tessar, 1965)
11. The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima, 1966)
12. A Pistol for Ringo (Duccio Tessari, 1965)
13. The Dirty Outlaws (Franco Rossetti, 1967)
14. The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
15. The Grand Duel (Giancarlo Santi, 1972)
16. Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead (Giuseppe Vari, 1971)
17. Tepepa (Giulio Petroni, 1968)
18. The Ugly Ones (Eugenio Martin, 1966)
19. Viva Django! (Ferdinando Baldi, 1967)
20. Machine Gun Killers (Paolo Bianchini, 1968)

The playlist above contains the trailers for all 20. This comes via Open Culture, who picked it up via The Spaghetti Western Database (which doesn't seem to exist any more?). Open Culture have been stalking Tarantino's faves for some time, and have a recent post that does compares Tarantino's 2002 and 2012 'top 12' lists...