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A Fistful of Dollars (Widescreen/Full Screen)

Clint Eastwood (Actor), Gian Maria Volonté (Actor), Monte Hellman (Director), Sergio Leone (Director) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)

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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 Buscombe

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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 Buscombe

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fistful of Dollars, May 21 2010
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Mrs. Margaret A. Webber (Fredericton, NB, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Fistful of Dollars (Dubbed in English) (VHS Tape)
There is nothing better than a good Clint Eastwood movie and a bowl of popcorn! This is a superb movie.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Yojimbo, May 31 2008
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Bill F. Armitage (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Fistful of Dollars (DVD)
If you think this is good, you should check out Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture "Yojimbo."
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1.0 out of 5 stars Good Movie Bad Dvd, July 3 2004
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This review is from: A Fistful of Dollars (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
This is in my opinion the best in the man with no name series.
But The good, the bad, and the ugly got the animorphic widescreen extended treatment. This movie deserves to get better treatment on dvd, for Eastwood fans. Heck, the whole trilogy could use an overhaul and then the lousy minimal box set they already put out would be obsolete. The second film For a Few Dollars More also deserves to be remastered. I don't care what people say for me clint was the best of the gunslingers in the history of hollywood, (move over john wayne) and made the best westerns, other than John Ford's Masterpiece stagecouch.
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