They were often shot in Italy because of the landscape.
Because they show people eating spaghetti a lot? Just kidding. Western produced in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s are called Spaghetti Western simply because they were produced in Italy. If they had been filmed in France they might have been called Baguette Westerns.
Sergio Leone. An Italian director. Western movies made by Italian directors where often called "Spaghetti Westerns"
Ennio Morricone
During the 1960s and 1970s.
From the TV series Rawhide and then a series of "Spaghetti" westerns filmed in Italy.
Spaghetti Westerns
It was Clint Eastwood
NOT A fistful of Dollars..
Sergio Leone directed this film. He is known for the genre of Spaghetti Westerns.
Whistling
Paint Your Wagon.
The term "Spaghetti Westerns" is a bigoted and ignorant term that really is moronic and should not be used. It's only used by those envious of the fact that an Italian Director made all of the best Westerns ever made, rather than an American director. That said, He starred in Sergio Leone's Man With No Name/Dollars trilogy. "A Fistful of Dollars", "For A Few Dollars More", and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".