The spaghetti Western genre, a phenomenon born in the mid-1960s, surged to prominence with such velocity that its rapid commercialisation became both its greatest strength and fatal flaw. By the time *Death Rides a Horse* (1967) emerged, the market was saturated with formulaic tales of vengeance, sun-scorched deserts, and morally ambiguous antiheroes. Giulio Petroni’s film, while competently crafted, epitomises the…






