By the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled spaghetti westerns. Leone approached the genre with great love and humor. Although the plot was admittedly borrowed from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), Leone managed to create a work of his own that would serve as a model .. Read more
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, John Wels, W. Lukschy |
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| Director | Sergio Leone |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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By the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled spaghetti westerns. Leone approached the genre with great love and humor. Although the plot was admittedly borrowed from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), Leone managed to create a work of his own that would serve as a model for many films to come. Clint Eastwood plays a cynical gunfighter who comes to a small border town and offers his services to two rivaling gangs. Neither gang is aware of his double play, and each thinks it is using him, but the stranger will outwit them both. The picture was the first installment in a cycle commonly known as the Dollars trilogy. Later, United Artists, who distributed it in the U.S., coined another term for it: the Man With No Name trilogy. While not as impressive as its follow-ups For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), A Fistful of Dollars contains all of Leone's eventual trademarks: taciturn characters, precise framing, extreme close-ups, and the haunting music of Ennio Morricone. Not released in the U.S. until 1967 due to copyright problems, the film was decisive in both Clint Eastwood's career and the recognition of the Italian western.~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, John Wels, W. Lukschy |
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| Director | Sergio Leone |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 38 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Collections | 100 Wild Westerns |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1964 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 08 Dec 2010 To Rent: DVD: 07 Feb 2000 |
| LOVEFiLM Instant | £2.49 |
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A film with much to answer for: it began the craze for 'spaghetti Westerns', took its director to Hollywood, and made a TV cowboy into a world star. It turned the Western into a brutal baroque opera, a violent clash between individuals.
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The meaning of Cool
Eastwood has to be one of the coolest heroes in this sixties icon of the screen. We know nothing about him except that he's the good guy. Dialogue is fine... read more »
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Still very watchable
Beautifully filmed with Clint Eastwood in a career defining role. The man with no-name outwits them all... One of the classic spaghetti Westerns.
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An awsomely cool movie!
While people will say the narrative of A fistful of dollars is not as good as its sucessors, For a few dollars more and The good the bad and the ugly, it is by ... read more »
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resergence of Sergio
This is the type of movie that is not asking you to think beyond what you see in entertainment value. The story of playing one against another has been ... read more »
Game: Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Formats: PC, PS3, 360 Publisher: Ubisoft In our collective conscious the rolling ball of tumbleweed is inextricably linked with the cowboy genre, and yet it is such a misplaced cliché. While that aimlessly wandering flora suggests monotony and boredom, something very different is happening in the long silences that define spaghetti westerns. When Clint Eastwood’s trigger finger hovers, the air hangs thick with testosterone, tension, and the acrid... Read more
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A Fistful Of Dollars - Feature
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