A Fistful of Dollars (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Monte Hellman, Sergio Leone
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Actor: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volont?, Marianne Koch, Sieghardt Rupp, Wolfgang LukschyDirector: Monte Hellman, Sergio Leone
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of A Fistful of Dollars (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: The first classic in the Spaghetti Western genre - a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1964 film was the first of what came to be called "Spaghetti Westerns" and took then TV star Clint Eastwood and made him into a major Movie Star. If you look on IMDG at Clint Eastwood's career you will be amazed at how rich and varied it has been. Star of all kinds of movies, director of many films, producer, writer, and much more. Just amazing.
This film is Sergio Leone's remake of Kurosawa's wonderful "Yojimbo" (1961) and uses guns instead of swords just as John Sturges's "The Magnificent Seven" had done with "The Seven Samurai" (1954) in 1960. In both films, an unnamed stranger shows up in a town torn between two crime families. The stranger proves his ability with a gun in one and a sword in the other. He is courted by both sides, and angers both by taking payment and doing `chores' for both sides. A local tavern owner and a carpenter employed making coffins befriends him and pay for that later. The stranger also sees a family whom he helps to his terrible cost.
In the end, he gets the two sides to fight and all but destroy each other while he cleans up those who remain on the winning side.
Eastwood uses such a taciturn style that it became a trademark for many years. He uses few words, and the fighting comes in separated torrents rather than wall-to-wall blood as it might have seemed in 1964.
Rated R for violence that seems somewhat tame by today's standards. We see worse and more gruesome stuff on almost any episode of CSI.
A classic that is worth seeing or seeing again.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI
Summary of A Fistful of Dollars (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
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 BuscombeAn anonymous but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying as most other would do the man schemes to play the two sides off each other getting rich in the bargain.Run Time: 100 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 027616077387 Manufacturer No: M107738
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