Fistful of dollars [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Jolly Film, SRL ; produced by Harry Colombo and George Papi ; directed by Sergio Leone ; released by United Artists.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Johnny Wels [Gian Maria Volonte], W. Lukschy [Wolfgang Lukschy], S. Rupp [Sieghardt Rupp], Joe Edger [Joseph Egger], Antonio Prieto, Jose Calvo. Originally produced in 1964; the US English language version released in 1967. Special features: disc 1, audio commentary by Christopher Frayling; disc 2, featurettes (A new kind of hero; A few weeks in Spain; Tre voci; Not ready for prime time; Network prologue from 1977, directed by Monte Hellman; Location comparisons), radio spots, trailers. First film in the series of films known unofficially as "the Dollars trilogy", or, "the man with no name trilogy".
Contents:
Disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. special features.
Summary:
The first of the well-known "spaghetti westerns", this film, with its unremitting violence, gritty realism, tongue-in-cheek humour and striking visuals making full use of the widescreen format, launched the careers of director Sergio Leone and a little-known actor called Clint Eastwood. Borrowing the plot of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Eastwood plays a gunfighter who comes to a small border town and offers his services to two rival gangs.
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