A Fistful of Dollars
by Monte Hellman, Sergio Leone
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Actor: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volont?, Marianne Koch, Sieghardt Rupp, Wolfgang LukschyDirector: Monte Hellman, Sergio Leone
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 1999-05-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS Movie Reviews of A Fistful of Dollars
Movie Review: The First Important Spaghetti
Summary: 4 Stars
No more Rawhide for Clint Eastwood,as the stranger rides on to Italy to meet a legendary director by the name of Sergio Leone to make this classic western that started a trilogy and a genre like no other,with a distinctive richocet sound of bullets,the sun blazed deserts of the Madrid,the rolling hills of landscape and bold scenery,hardened men from the the way of life growing up in the old west,where survival was a reliable .44 and violence was just an ordinary daily routine and the woman were mainly the Ladies of the night of the local saloons and the music,the music in these films always seem to fit each scene,giving it that western feel or touch,kind of like,ghost riders in the sky,although some scores should have been shot,and don't forget the "go for the gold" plot,just remember,A Fistful of Dollars,started it all.
Summary of A Fistful of Dollars
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 BuscombeWesterns VHS Video
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