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Il fanciullo del West (1942)

Il fanciullo del West poster
Directed by
Giorgio Ferroni
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A comedic parody of Westerns, this film follows a boy in the American West who gets into humorous situations. It reimagines the classic cowboy story with Italian slapstick humor.

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What happens

Il fanciullo del West (transl. The Boy of the West ) is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Erminio Macario. It is named after Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West ) and is considered the first western parody in Italian cinema and the precursor of the Spaghetti Western genre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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