(ANSA) - Rome, April 30 - The Italian post office issued a
stamp Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of great director
Sergio Leone.
The stamp shows the baddie from his masterpiece One Upon A
Time In The West played by Henry Fond.
Leone, who died on April 30, 1989 aged 60, was credited as
the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre starring Clint
Eastwood.
Leone's pioneering film-making style included juxtaposing
extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots.
His movies included the sword and sandal action films The
Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and The Colossus of Rhodes (1961),
the Dollars Trilogy of Westerns featuring Eastwood: A Fistful of
Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly (1966); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968);
Duck, You Sucker! (1971) and the crime drama Once Upon a Time in
America (1984), with Robert De Niro and James Woods.
Stamp marks 30th anniversary of Sergio Leone death
Great director created Spaghetti Western genre