In the 1960s, the spaghetti Western genre grew in popularity.
Films, particularly those of the influential Dollars trilogy, spawned numerous films of the same ilk and often with similar titles, particularly from the mid to late 1960s and early 1970s.
By the end of the 1970s, spaghetti Westerns had lost their following among mainstream cinema audiences and the production had ground to a virtual halt.
Higgins (Tom Scott), a traveling snake-oil salesman on the run from Mexican bandits, encounters the ghosts of Davy Crockett, Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed.
The Spanish comedy film 800 Balas or 800 Bullets (2002 AD) follows performers at a Western themed tourist attraction in Almería, Spain, where the majority of Spaghetti Westerns were filmed, including a former stuntman who had worked on Leone's films.