"Comprehensive in scope, epic in achievement, Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death is likely to be the definitive work on Leone."-- Times Higher Education Supplement "Anyone who cares for these violent and poetic films will want to take a look at Frayling's painstaking biography."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "Comprehensive and scrupulously prepared."-- Publishers Weekly "Frayling is a perceptive, witty writer . [who] depicts the zany, underconsidered Italian cinematic watershed with haunting clarity."-- Kirkus "Frayling's Sergio Leone.is everything a bio should be."-- Milwaukee Shepherd Express "Thick enough to stop a bullet, Christopher Frayling's massive biography of Sergio Leone remains as epic and entertaining as any of its subject's films.

"-- PopMatters " Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death is not only a thorough and exhaustive examination of Leone and the 'Spaghetti Western' but also a mediation on the myth of America and its frontier as a whole."-- Screening the Past.