A Fistful of Dollars

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A Fistful of Dollars launched the spaghetti Western and catapulted Clint Eastwood to stardom. Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture Yojimbo, it scored a resounding success (in Italy in 1964 and the U.S. in 1967), as did its sequels, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The advertising campaign promoted Eastwood's character--laconic, amoral, dangerous--as the Man with No Name (though in the film he's clearly referred to as Joe), and audiences loved the movie's refreshing new take on the Western genre. Gone are the pieties about making the streets safe for women and children. Instead it's every man for himself. Striking, too, was a new emphasis on violence, with stylized, almost balletic gunfights and baroque touches such as Eastwood's armored breastplate. The Dollars films had a marked influence on the Hollywood Western--for example, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch--but their most enduring legacy is Clint Eastwood himself. --Edward Buscombe


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I recently watched this. I should have done so a long time ago, what a great movie. I especially loved the dialogue at end, great stuff. I'm really looking forward to seeing For a Few Dollars More.


This seems really weird to think about:

After considering Henry Fonda director Sergio Leone offered the role of the Man With No Name to James Coburn who proved too expensive. Charles Bronson then turned it down after describing it as the "worst script I have ever seen". Third choice Richard Harrison also declined the role but pointed Leone in the direction of Clint Eastwood after suggesting he watched some episodes of "Rawhide" (1959).

 

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I have only seen The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but will add this to the queue.

 

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You guys don't have the western channel? They play these movies all the time.

 

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You guys don't have the western channel? They play these movies all the time.

A western channel? Nope, didn't know one existed. I guess they have a channel for just about anything now. Do they have one for cheesy action movies from the 80's yet?