These movies were originally released in Italian or with Italian dubbing, but, as most of the films featured multilingual casts, and sound was post-synched, most western all'italiana do not have an official dominant language. The movies typically had a B-movie setting or lower budget production similar to classic Western films.

The typical spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, an Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, and (sometimes) West German