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Heavily influenced by Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns and Japanese samurai films, Cheh brought elements from these movies into his own work, revolutionizing Hong Kong filmmaking.
The success of these movies originated a whole new genre later known as the "Spaghetti Westerns" where once again the harmonica plays a dominant role (there is even a character by the name of Harmonica in Sergio Leone's movie Once Upon a Time in the West) in the music of Ennio Morricone, played on the harmonica by Franco De Gemini.
This derivativeness, combined with bizarre characters and complete inattention to continuity, has made many refer to him as the "Ed Wood of spaghetti westerns".
In the 1960s, Montés frequently worked in co-productions and spaghetti-westerns, with titles like Samson and the Mighty Challenge (1964), El proscrito del Río Colorado (1965), Sette dollari sul rosso (1966), Texas, Adiós (1966), Return of the Seven (1967) and Maneater of Hydra (1967).
De Masi also scored several action films, such as Enzo G. Castellari's Quel maledetto treno blindato (The Inglorious Bastards), but he is best remembered for his work on spaghetti westerns.
Giulio Petroni (September 21, 1917 – January 31, 2010) was an Italian director, writer and screenwriter, best known for his spaghetti westerns Tepepa (1969), with Orson Welles and Tomas Milian, Death Rides a Horse (1967), with Lee Van Cleef in one of his first starring roles, and A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (1968).
As was the custom of several spaghetti westerns, a track from Ennio Morricone's A Fistful of Dollars features in the film.
He appeared in many spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (as the priest brother of Eli Wallach's character Tuco) and in For a Few Dollars More (1965) as the cunning second-in-command Groggy (his first credited film role).