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01/26/06
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 32 Fresh: 30 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Synopsis: The first true Spaghetti Western follows the exploits of a nameless drifter (Clint Eastwood) who wanders into a town torn apart by greed, corruption, and revenge. The clever, tough-talking gunslinger then plays the town's two feuding families off each other to his own benefit. As members of... [More]
Genre: Westerns
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonte, Marianne Koch, Mario Brega
Director: Sergio Leone
Producer: Giorgio Papi
Screenwriter: Sergio Leone, Duccio Tessari, G. Schock, Victor A. Catena
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Producer: Giorgio Papi
Screenwriter: Sergio Leone, Duccio Tessari, G. Schock, Victor A. Catena
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Reviews
Top Critic
If this is blasphemy in certain quarters, then so be it. No masterpiece, Dollars is highly regarded for reasons generally outside its own artistic merits.
06/26/07
Though far from perfected in this film, Leone's style would mature through his next two films.
08/29/06
Top Critic
It's Leone's shortest and simplest film, but all of his hallmarks -- a masterly use of space within the widescreen frame, Ennio Morricone's unusual soundtrack music, plenty of silence -- are already in place.
08/14/06
Leone's pulpy, trend-setting parody -- a rip-off of Kurosawa's Yojimbo -- hog-tied the Western and dragged it into the modern age, branding it with baroquely big close-ups and Ennio Morricone's famously eclectic score.
08/07/06
From Clint Eastwood's iconic performance to Ennio Morricone's unforgettable (and much-parodied) musical score, A Fistful of Dollars (****) took the western down trails it had never explored.
06/22/06
Top Critic
Top Critic
Eastwood absolutely defines the sullen spaghetti western anti-hero in Sergio Leone's slick and sleepy shoot 'em up saga that kicks up the right amont of dramatic dust.
05/22/03
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