You have to go back to the late nineteenth century to trace the roots of the western. As one of the fathers of cinema, Thomas A.
Edison envisioned the genre in 1894, but it wasn't until he had a glimpse. The spaghetti western would not have existed without the influence of Sergio Leone, the Italian master who turned Clint Eastwood into a myth thanks to the Dollar Trilogy (For a Fistful of Dollars, Death Had a Price and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)