Vintage West
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 Vintage Franz Hermle Clock Movement West Germany Never Used c1980  US $34.33
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 Vintage Wood Cuckoo Clock West Germany For Parts Or Repair Detailed Birds US $10.49
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 Vintage Old Wall Clock model 526N 5 US $15.00
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 Vintage West German Thermometer Wood Chalet Weather Forcaster Man and Woman US $3.34
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 Vintage West Clox America Single Bell Alarm Clock US $19.99
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 MINIATURE A TARON OWL CUCKOO CLOCK WORKING WITH MOVING EYES CREEPY W GERMANY US $23.48
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 West German 8 Day Pendulum Wind Up Clock 1960s Modernism US $37.75
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 VTG 50s ELGIN alarm CLOCK wind up TRAVEL luminous LEATHER CASE MADE WEST GERMANY US $.99
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 Goldbuhl alarm clock vintage 60 US $1.00
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 SILVER POCKET WATCH WITH OLD MARK AND DAY AND DATE ANTIQUE VINTAGE V OLD PIECE US $500.56
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 VINTAGE BLACK FOREST CUCKOO CLOCK W GERMANY REGULA SCHMECKENBECHER MUSICAL US $49.99
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 Western Saddle Clock Plastic Woodgrain Look Wall 13 inch Cowboy Wild West Decor US $28.50
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 WIND UP CLOCK PECKING CHICKEN Hen Chicks Farm Retro Vintage Style Alarm Gift NIB US $24.95
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 Vintage W Haid Westminster Chime Bracket Mantle Clock made in West Germany US $70.00
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 Vintage Schmeckenbecker Cuckoo Clock West Germany US $225.00
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 VINTAGE COCKOO CLOCK MADE WEST GERMANY REGULA 25 MOUVEMENT FOR PARTS OR REPAIR US $25.00
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 Vintage Linden Mantel Clock West Germany US $29.99
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 Vintage Linden Black Forest Alarm Clock Made In West Germany Candy Apple Green US $9.00
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 Vintage Black Forest Cuckoo Clock West Germany US $28.00
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 VINTAGE TV SHELF MANTLE CLOCK MADE BY UNITED W THE LOOK OF A FIREPLACE US $24.99
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 VINTAGE ALARM CLOCK GERMANY COWBOY COWGIRL PORCELAIN 1959 FOR PARTS REPAIR US $9.00
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 Vintage Movement Regula 25 A for cuckoo clocks parts US $1.00
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 VINTAGE RETRO DECO WESTCLOX ALARM CLOCK TRAVALARM MODEL WORKS GREAT US $9.99
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 Old Clock Cases Wood and Bits Pieces US $19.95
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 Vintage Kieninger Obergfell Carriage Clock Adolf Jergen Alarm Clock Parts US $19.99
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 Antique Vintage Cuckoo Clock REGULA ALBERT SCWAB KARLSRUH West Germany US $20.50
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 Staiger Quartz Clock Made in West Germany French Crystal US $17.50
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 VINTAGE GERMANY BEAUTIFUL BLACK FOREST LINDEN MANTEL CLOCK W KEY RUNS CUCKOO US $110.00
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 Vintage Welby Starburst Atomic Teak wood Brass Elgin Movement Wall Clock Ex US $199.99
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 BRASS LEAF UNITED ELECTRIC WALL MID CENTURY CLOCK WORKS NICE LOOK US $7.99
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 Vintage Welby Art Deco Mantle Clock w chimes West Germany Working Welby Clock Ex US $149.99
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 Vintage Franz Hermle Dunhaven working w chimes Mantle Clock Excellent Condition US $49.99
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 VINTAGE WEST GERMAN MECCEDES MINI GRAND FATHER CLOCKRUNS US $8.95
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 Vtg Brass Kieninger Obergfell Anniversary Mantel Dome Clock Welby West Germany US $49.95
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 VINTAGE GERMAN CUCKOO CLOCK MOVEMENT CHAINS US $12.95
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 DANEKER WESTMINSTER CHIMES EVERY QUARTER DARK MAPLE WOOD WORKS GREAT CONDITION US $210.00
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 Vintage Sheffield Alarm Clock Salvest Clock West Germany Brass Antique NR US $1.00
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 VINTAGE CLOCK LOT OF 4 SEIKO SETH THOMAS DUNHAVEN STAIGER 3 ARE GERMAN GERMANY US $69.99
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 VINTAGE PHINNEY WALKER MUSICAL ALARM CLOCK BRASS GOLD PLATED UNIQUE W GERMANY US $12.99
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 Vintage E Schmeckenbecher West German Musical Animated Chalet Style Cuckoo Clock US $56.00
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 Vintage Kundo Aniversary style clock with glass cover needs suspension spring US $27.77
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 Vintage Small West Germany Regula 3 Weight Cuckoo Clock Parts Repair US $25.00
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 Thwaites and Reed LondonEngland 8 Day Mantle Clock Runs And Chimes Good US $59.99
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 VINTAGE DUNCAN CERAMIC PORCELAIN MANTLE CLOCK WITH GERMAN TIME PEACE COLLECTIBLE US $19.99
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 ANTIQUE VINTAGE KUNDO GERMAN ANNIVERSARY CLOCK GERMANY KIENINGER OBERGFELL AMC US $12.01
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 VINTAGE LARGE GERMAN MUSICAL CUCKOO CLOCK THORENS SWITZERLAND MUSIC BOX 2 TUNE US $36.00
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 ANTIQUE VINTAGE INGRAHAM OAK GINGERBREAD SHELF CLOCK US $95.00
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 Mid Century Linden Blackforest West Germany Oval Alarm Clock US $39.99
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 RARE CARD FLIP CLOCK original KÖHLER german VINTAGE DECO PLATO WATCH 1940s US $227.56
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 vintage art deco LeCoultre brass clock US $22.50
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 Vintage Small West German Linden Wood Clock US $9.99
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 RARE Vintage Retro Pink TimeMaster Radium West Western Germany Alarm Clock WORKS US $46.99
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 VINTAGE SHEFFIELD TRAVEL ALARM CLOCK WITH ORIGINAL BOX US $14.99
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 VINTAGE HAMILTON GERMANY CHIME MANTLE CLOCK NICE US $31.00
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 Vintage BULOVA TEMPUS FUJIT Mantle Clock West Germany Bulova Movement US $39.99
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 Vintage West Germany Hunter Cuckoo Clock One Day by Regula Original Parts US $159.99
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 Vintage Cuckoo Clock WEST GERMANY Nice US $39.99
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 Vintage Elgin Windup Alarm Clock West Germany US $19.99
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 Vintage Fraz Hermle West German Clock Movement Great For Clock Repairs US $30.00
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 Vintage Working Kundo 400 Day Anniversary Clock US $99.99
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 Vintage W German Cuckoo Clock Parts And Repair Blaue Donau US $11.49
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 VINTAGE WEST GERMANY REGULA CUCKOO CLOCK NON WORKING FOR PARTS 1969 US $75.00
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 4 Vtg Travel Alarm Clocks Lot WGermany Japan BlessingBradley Artco Europa US $9.99
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 Cuckoo clock West Germany Vintage 1960s Chains weights orignal 23 x 14 US $103.51
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 PS West German Crystal Shelf Desk Clock Quartz US $16.95
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 Vintage 1974 Byron Molds Ceramic Grandfather Clock Girl and Cat Germany Wind Up US $50.00
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 VINTAGE TURN OF THE CENTURY MANTLE CLOCK NOT MARKED WATERBURY QUARTZ ELEC CHIME US $89.99
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 VINTAGE NIEMAN MARCUS CLEAR GLASS CLOCK MADE BY BIEIKRISTALLWEST GERMANYHEAVY US $149.00
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 VINTAGE SUNBEAM WALL CLOCK ACRYLIC CASE NEEDS REPAIR US $19.99
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 VINTAGE WOOD FRAMED PICTURE WHITETAIL DEER CLOCK VINTAGE AMERICANA 1970 US $35.99
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 E Schmeckenbecher Cuckoo Clock Movement 3 Hammer Untested For Parts Repair 5413 US $39.95
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 Cuckoo Clock Manufacturing CO Movement Unadjusted 341 020 335cm 5 Hammer 5406 US $79.95
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 Vintage West Germany PHINNEY WALKER Gold Gilded Alarm Clock for Repair US $.99
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 Vintage Used Mystery Enamel Dial Porcelain Monchicourt Bousies Wooden Wall Clock US $279.99
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 SALE $20 1950S HANDPAINTED CLOCK MADE IN WEST GERMANY MINI WOOD KITCHEN CLOCK US $20.00
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 Vintage Travel Endura Alarm Clock and RCA Victor Transistor Radio US $40.00
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 Blessing folding alarm clock US $60.00
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 VINTAGE HAND PAINTED CHIME CLOCK FEINTECHNIK MADE IN WEST GERMANY US $350.00
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 VTG Warren Telechron Clock 1 Red Dot Indicator Wheel Part Disc Power Outage US $12.95
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 Vintage BRADLEY Folding Travel Alarm Clock WEST GERMANY WORKS US $25.60
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Sergio Leone | Fastest Gun in the West
By the 1950's, the influence and appeal of the American West, created by early directors such as the late John Ford and Howard Hawks, would reach internationally to the Far East and the cinematic centers throughout Europe. Ford, the director of such classics as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers, greatly influenced Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa, who's 1961 picture, Yojimbo, was the blue-print for Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western smash, A Fistfull of Dollars. Along with Citizen Kane, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai set the world on fire with its revolutionary blend of cinematography, action and score; a practice Leone would hone to cinematic bliss in later films.
For years, the western was a genre that was distinctly American. It expressed our ideals, our beliefs, and identified a code of honor which transcended law, life and society. Collectively, these traits bridged the cinematic gap between the American, Japanese and Italian cultures. The cautionary morality tales had as much to do with the open grandeur of the American frontier as they did with the consequences of personal action. Perhaps, more clearly interpreted through an outsider's eye, Leone would redefine the legacy of the great American western.
Thankfully, in Leone's films, there were no Indians for John Wayne to kill and no Gene Autry to sing songs by the campfire. There were no 'tarts with heart'. In fact, there were few women of any kind. Whores populated the burnt out brothels and were seldom found outside the bedroom. Instead men and bandits roamed the streets, stalking one another like beasts in the wild, armed with Remington's, Colt's and Magnum's. They were unshaven and unclean, staggeringly drunk and cunningly stupid. There were no heroes, only villains who spared the innocent. The west was a place where the good, the bad and the ugly all kill; stark contrasts to the American westerns of the time.
For the sake of future generations, the final showdown of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and the opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West should be chiseled into stone tablets, as they are composed in a manner that can only be described as god-like. The cowboys, with their hats drawn low above their staunch brow, gazing in with eyes that would slice a diamond, stand tight and motionless as their full length trench coats flail in the winds of an open desert. It is these mythic poses, where Leone turns mere mortals into giants that stand as tall as any of the gods on Mount Olympus.
Few artists ever achieve such an extraordinarily successful collaboration as Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone did on their films. Morricone was the yin to Leone's yang, each masterfully accenting the others work with texture, style and grace that has yet to be duplicated. Leone's long and patient cuts of a face, a walk, or a stare, coupled with Morricone's natural soundscapes and textures, elevates tension to unbearable levels, as the audience waits impatiently for the action to occur. Few directors ever mastered the set-up as well as Leone, and this remains as one of his most endearing techniques as a master filmmaker. Other than Leone, Stanley Kubrick is the only director that can convey so much by saying so little. In the two hour forty five minute opus that is Once Upon a Time in the West, there are only thirty pages of dialogue. The emphasis here is movement, tension and then, finally, the action. The scenes are allowed to breathe and develop as if happening for the first time; a touchstone of vintage cinema lost on all but a few of the current filmmakers. Leone would probably spontaneously combust viewing a modern day action/adventure film.
Nonetheless, Leone lit an eternal flame to an era where he claimed life has no value. Creating a genre that spawned over 200 films is a claim few individuals can make. Leone is one of those people. There has always been a level of intrigue in Italian cinema. Fellini was the first master of the craft, creating films with inordinate meanings, but ultimately engaging and enthralling pieces. Leone, the heir to the king, created a legacy of robustly complete films with simple themes: man against man against man, and may the fastest draw win. Nothing more, nothing less.
In 1964, before Zeppelin shook the earth, Leone introduced the world to The Man With No Name and over the next few years, the director, Leone, and star, Clint Eastwood, achieved international stardom with the films of the Dollars Trilogy.
Eastwood, who follows Charlton Heston as one of cinema's most triumphant leading men, spent the next thirty years riding tall in the saddle, gun slinging and hustling his way across the old west, building iconic status as a relic from a past age. In 1992 he directed a film that would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director. The film was called Unforgiven. In the two hour film, Eastwood managed to deconstruct the western myth he spent his entire career building, finally collapsing under a harrowing crescendo of bullets, blood and death.
Few endings are as satisfying as a three man dual after a near three hour romp through the west. If the poignant visuals don't grab you, the most indelible theme in cinema history will. It's hard to tell what Leone film is the best of the bunch. Each subsequent film grew in scope, size, and scale, and the result was a more complete, more mature film than the last. Once Upon a Time in the West was as much an homage to the east as it was to the west, an amalgamation of all the major western archetypes and a strong sense of the old west dying off. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly remains the definitive western for most that have experienced the film and Once Upon a Time in America is as ambitious a project that has ever been attempted. One thing remains clear; Sergio Leone belongs in the pantheon of cinema legends and on the Mount Rushmore of the greatest directors of all time.
About the Author
Donnie Walker is a rabid fan of Film and Rock & Roll. He is a relic from a past age, jaded cynical and strong, but remains walking that line alone, where ever it may lead him. With a series of podcasts and articles in development, as well as a screenplay, busy job and a college schedule, he decided to create a website to collect his passions in one place. Join the mayhem at BadlandsBlvd.com
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