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A Fistful Of Dollars (Special Edition) [1964]
starring: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, John Wels, W. Lukschy, S. Rupp
directed by: Sergio Leone

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050070027662
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Special Edition
Label: MGM Entertainment
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: April 18, 2005
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
Sales Rank: 2459

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A Fistful of Dollars (Morricone)

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
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 armoured 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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Brilliant western
This is the first Spaghetti western and a superb film. Both Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone are on top form and the storyline, dialogue and action are tremendous.

A classic.

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- A cheap budget movie that launched a classic trilogy
A Fistful of Dollars was made on a shoestring budget of $200,000. Clint Eastwood even bought his own black jeans and poncho and brought them over from the US to the filmset in Almeria, Spain.

Clint rides into a dusty frontier town, San Miguel, where life is cheap. Situated just over the border inside Mexico, the town is a focus for smuggling and is run by 2 families - the Rojos (Mexicans) and the Baxters (Americans).

When a gold heist takes place at the expense of regular US and Mexican soldiers, the softly spoken gunfighter succeeds in playing each family against each other - while at the same time building up his finances in return for information.

This movie is a dark, minimalist film. Everything from ... Read More:

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- The film that started it all...
Fistfull of Dollars, introduced us to Sergio Leone's masterpiece that were Spaghetti Westerns. It also made clint Eastwood a star, and would lead to two extremely successful follow ups, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

It introduced the world to Sergio Leone's sharp directing and fondness for extreme close ups, often copied since, but never really bettered.

Clint Eastwood stars as the man with no name, a remake of an old japaneese film called Yojimbo. Clint is perfectly cast as the clever gunslinger as a man of actions rather than words. Here, he plays two gangs off against each other, which all climaxes in a wonderfully memorable scene which reveals the full extent of Clint's cunning.
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- ABSOLUTELY SUPERB RELEASE!
A great fully restored release that has cleaned up the picture and sound of this historical film. Also brilliant are the extras and the PROLOGUE sequence just has to be seen to be believed and laughed at! There's only one small problem with this release though and that is there is no imput from either Leone, Morricone, Volonte (or Van Cleef in the sequel FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE release). As Leone, Volonte and Van Cleef have sadly passed away it is understandable, however Morricone is still around and it would have been something special to have him saying something about the music of the films he provide for Leone on his films (especially at it is such a massive part of the unique ingredients of these SPAGHETTI WESTERN films). Superb though nevertheless!

Rating:

- A Fist full of Talent
This two DVD set is the best version to buy of this film. The remastering/restoration is excellent, so the picture quality is superb. The film itself needs little introduction, it wasn't the first Italian/European western, but it was the first that tried to be different from the standard US western.

Based on Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), this is the film that changed Eastwood from a little known American TV star of the early 60's into a movie Icon. Eastwood wasn't the first choice for the part, there were 4 or 5 preferred actors in front of him. But Eastwood was prepared to work considerably cheaper than these people and made the movie for $15,000.

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