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A Fistful of Dollars (Widescreen/Full Screen)

5 star:		(37)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

There is nothing better than a good Clint Eastwood movie and a bowl of popcorn! This is a superb movie.

If you think this is good, you should check out Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture "Yojimbo."

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.

Sergio Leone's A fistful of Dollars, is a great film to watch.
The opening titles jump at you and the music by Ennio Morricone
Is worth owning as well if you can get it.This film shows Clint Eastwood in his best role to date I think,A bounty hunter.this alone made me want to watch this movie.Though the movie Clint fights of bandits with the legendary QUICK draw, which he is best at....this movie is the first of the classic "dollars" trilogy.once you watch this you will love spaghetti westerns.
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Without a doubt this movie is classic. This movie is the first in wonderful series of movies by Sergio Leone starring Clint Eastwood as the "Man with no name"(even though he had a name in all three movies). This movie is just fantastic from start to finish. My only problem is that the transfer to dvd was good but not great. It does include a behind the scenes booklet with a ton of facts and notes and the original trailer is a nice touch. Even though there are no special features on the disc, the movie looks and sounds great and you DO get more than you pay for.

I have to wonder why such little respect was given such a classic movie. While they DID manage to produce the DVD in widescreen, why isn't it anamorphic? The opening titles are VERY blurry, and, while most of the picture is relatively clear and free of noise/grain, the sound toward the end exposes its sources, with all kinds of hiss and crackling during quieter moments.

Of course, this is the only release of this movie, so if you're a fan, it isn't unwatchable. But it really is kind of an insulting release for the movie that truly started Clint Eastwood's career.

The first of the three " man with no name " series is great. I would give this movie a 5 for the movie itself , but a 1 for the sound and quility. Not the best of the three but the fast past gun play of Clint is sure to keep you on your heels.

The film that catapulted Clint Eastwood to worldwide fame is a western classic and an enjoyable adventure, a European oater that packs a wallop. The dialogue is spare, the dubbing leaves a lot to be desired and the plot of feuding families here is a bit stilted and contrived but the story has pace and excitement, plenty of gun-play and Eastwood's lighting-fast draw. The rugged scenery of southern Spain adds to the film's beauty and there's a nice build-up towards the explosive climax when Eastwood's "man with no name" reappears to settle old scores. This western makes use of sweaty close-up shots, gritty facial expressions and has large doses of violence that were not often seen in oaters. Ennio Morricone's music score is a flavorful accompaniment to the movie and is a departure from the traditional music cues that were used in western films. This picture raised the bar for the many "spaghetti westerns" that followed during the next few years.

I am a HUGE fan of Kurosawa and Leone. Both directors are quite unique and breakthrough. This film is not loosely based on Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" it's almost Scene for scene! just watch the opening of both films and you'll see how similar they are! Leone decided to pay homeage to "Yojimbo" with this film and it shows. Its NOT a rip off but pays homeage in the way it should be! I don't look at this film as my "favorite" because there are two more in the series and it feels more like one big film starting with this and moving to "For a few dollars more" and finishing with "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". Each film is watchable alone but one after the other makes them all the more enjoyable. This is a classic film in every way, the acting, the directing and cinematography. Some deem this a "cheapo film" but just because it was low budget doesn't mean its not fantastic! Its a classic and incredible in EVERY way!

Sergio Leone gives us an atmospheric, unflinchingly graphic update of the Akira Kurosawa classic Yojimbo. This time, on the other hand, the backdrop is the Old West and not feudal Japan. Clint Eastwood stars as the infamous "man with no name," a gun-for-hire who arrives into a town being ripped apart by two feuding families-the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of leaving like the local bartender suggests, Eastwood sets up a plan to destroy both families with the help of his .45 pistol. The realism of this film is astounding, no death-defying heroism is shown, no one taking a bullet and surviving(there is one exception to this, but I don't want to give anything away).
Eastwood creates an unforgettable image in his first collaboration with director Leone, who later directed classic westerns such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and Once Upon a Time in the West. The amazing fact is that this movie was rumored to have only cost two-hundred thousand dollars to make!