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A Fistful of Dollars

Cast

Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volont�, Wolfgang Lukschy View All

Crew

Sergio Leone (Screenplay), Sergio Leone (Director), Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay), V�ctor Andr�s Catena (Screenplay) View All

Release: Sep. 12th, 1964

Runtime: 1 hour, 39 minutes

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

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Iroquois
Watching this so closely after watching Yojimbo means it's easy to pick apart how closely Leone follows Kurosawa, but with a film this simple it's good that it sticks pretty closely to the original with only the occasional concession to the difference in settings (such as dropping the sub-plot about....

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Jack1
In fact, nobody had bothered to inform its main star, Clint Eastwood, of the change, and as a result Eastwood remained virtually unaware of the positive buzz surrounding the movie until an agent pointed it out to him in a Variety Magazine article three weeks later.

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