A Fistful of Dollars - 6

Amazon.com 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 Product Description Available for the first time in over four years, the legendary "Man With No Name" makes his first appearance in this brilliant, action-packed tale of a mysterious gunman who uses his wits and his six-shooter to battle the vicious rulers of a small western town.
ASIN: B00000K0DM
VSKU: LFV.B00000K0DM.N
Condition: New
Author/Artist:Clint Eastwood|Gian Maria Volont|Marianne Koch|Wolfgang Lukschy|Sieghardt Rupp|Joseph Egger|Antonio Prieto|Jos Calvo|Margarita Lozano|Daniel Martn|Benito Stefanelli|Mario Brega|Monte Hellman|Sergio Leone|A. Bonzzoni|Akira Kurosawa|Duccio Tessari|Fernando Di Leo|Jaime Comas Gil
Binding: Dvd