Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the inventor of the "Spaghetti Western" genre. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His movies include the sword and sandal action films The Last Days of Pompeii and The Colossus of Rhodes, the Dollars Trilogy of Westerns featuring Clint Eastwood A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), the epic Western Once Upon a Time in the West, the epic Zapata Western Duck, You Sucker! and the epic crime drama Once Upon a Time in America.

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