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.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Fully restored with extended footage
Disc One: - Audio commentary by Sir Christopher Frayling
Disc Two: - A New Kind Of Hero - Documentary
- A Few Weeks In Spain - Documentary
- Cinque Voci - Documentary
- Additional scene - 'The Network Prologue'
- Not Ready For Primetime - Featurette
- Restoration, Italian Style - Featurette
- Location Comparisons
- Radio spots
- Double Bill Trailer of A Fistful Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Collector's gallery
ITEM SPECIFICS
Region: 2 - Europe (PAL), Japan (NTSC), South Africa, Middle East Rating: 15 Year: 1964 Duration: 96 minutes Label: MGM Ratio: Widescreen Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonte, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, Joseph Egger, Antonio Prieto, Jose Calvo & Mario Brega
Language: English - English for the hearing impaired |
