Per un pugno di dollari

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Per un pugno di dollari (1964 / Director: Sergio Leone)

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Also known as

A Fistful of Dollars | Für eine Handvoll Dollar (Germany) | Por um punhado de dólares (Portugal) | Pour une poignée de dollars (France) | För en handfull dollar | En Nævefuld Dollars | Za garść dolarów (Poland) | Bir Avuç Dolar (Turkey) | Por un punado de dolares (Spain) | Fur ein handful dollar (Sweden)

Cast and Crew

  • Actors: Clint Eastwood(Joe/'Man With No Name'), Marianne Koch (Marisol), Gian Maria Volonte (as John Wells)(Ramon Rojo), José 'Pepe' Calvo (Silvanito), Mario Brega (as Richard Stuyvesant)(Chico/Paco), Aldo Sambrell (as Aldo Sambreli)(Manolo), Frank Braña, Benito Stefanelli (as Benny Reeves)(Rubio), Lorenzo Robledo (Baxter henchman), Luis Barboo (Baxter henchman), Raf Baldassarre (as Ralph Bladwin) (Rojo gang member), Natale Nazzareno (uncredited), Benito Carotenuto (as Carol Brown)(Antonio Baxter), Margarita Jimenez (as Rita Lozan)(Consuelo Baxter), Josef Egger (as Joe Edger)(Piripero), Wolfgang Lukschy (Sheriff John Baxter), Daniel Martin (Julian), Fredy Arco (Jesus), Sieghardt Rupp (as S. Rupp)(Esteban Rojo), Antonio Prieto (as Antonio Prieter)(Benito Rojo), Umberto Spadaro (as Bernd Stefan)(Miguel), Jose Canalejas (Alvaro), Fernando Sanchez Polack (Rojo gang member), Antonio Pica (Rojo gang member), Antonio Molino Rojo (Baxter henchman), Jose Ortas, Juan Cortes, Antonio Moreno, Manuel Pena, Julio Perez Tabernero, Jose Riesgo


  • Story: A. Bonzzoni, Victor Andre Cantena
  • Screenplay: Sergio Leone, Victor Andre Cantena, Fernando di Leo, Jamie Comas, Duccio Tessari
  • Cinematography: Massimo Dallamano (as Jack Dalmas), Federico G. Larraya [Technicolor, Techniscope]
  • Music: Ennio Morricone (as Dan Savio)
  • Producers: Arrigo Colombo (as Harry Colombo), Giorgio Papi (as George Papi)

Synopsis

In a plot largely taken from the Samurai film Yojimbo, Clint Eastwood is a laconic stranger who plays two criminal factions in a border town against each other to his own financial gain.

Review

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.

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