About the Author

Filmwriter Howard Hughes is the author of the Filmgoers' Guides: 'Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns'; 'Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies', and 'Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns', all I.B.Tauris.

Reviews

"An exhaustive work, fine as a reference resource for someone who needs a little more information than the Internet Movie Database can provide." -- The Weekly StandardPraise for Howard Hughes: On Stagecoach to Tombstone "Hold your horses for next month's release of Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoer's Guide to Great Westerns, author Howard Hughes' detailed tome on 27 classic films." - Newsday.com "Written with panache and fresh insight...buy it!" - Dave Worrall, Cinema Retro"A deftly written collection of essays, full of fascinating insight, this will be a must for fellow travellers on the sagebrush trail." - Howard Maxford, Film ReviewOn Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: "Howard Hughes has written a well-researched, detailed, no-nonsense and above all enthusiastic guide to twenty of the best Italian Westerns from A Fistful of Dollars to My Name is Nobody. He has aimed for the heart, and unlike the bad guy in Fistful, he has hit it."--Christopher Frayling, author of Spaghetti Westerns