B00000K0DM

027616785824

1964

1967-01-18

99

1h 39min

Awards, 1 win & 4 nominations

Sergio Leone

Adriano Bolzoni, Mark Lowell, Víctor Andrés Catena

Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch

Arrigo Colombo, Giorgio Papi, Pietro Santini

Ennio Morricone

Massimo Dallamano, Federico G. Larraya

Roberto Cinquini, Alfonso Santacana

Carlo Simi

Sigfrido Burmann, Francisco Rodríguez Asensio, Carlo Simi

Dolores Clavel, Alberto Gutiérrez, Sam Watkins, José Luis Pérez, José María Sánchez

Jaime Comas Gil, Ramón Crespo, Franco Palaggi, Günter Raguse, Fernando Rossi, Anselmo Zabala

Franco Giraldi, Mario Caiano, Franco Giraldi, Julio Sempere, Tonino Valerii

Adolfo Cofiño, Luis Ocaña, Rafael Pérez Murcia, Renato Casaro

Elio Pacella

Manuel Baquero, Giovanni Corridori

Benito Stefanelli, Nosher Powell, Romano Puppo, William R. Thompkins

Stelvio Massi, Eduardo Noé, Domenico Parrello, Ramón Sempere, José Sánchez, José María Sánchez, Julio Wizuete

Igino Lardani

María Casado, Carlo Simi

Alicia Castillo

Ennio Morricone, Alessandro Alessandroni, Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni, Michele Lacerenza, Peter Tevis

María Antonia Puerta, Tilde Watson

Clint Eastwood, Jerónimo Montoro, Marta Pons, Pietro Santini, William R. Thompkins, Marisol de Villanueva, Eugenio Villar, Ferruccio Amendola, Giorgio Capecchi, Dhia Cristiani, Arturo Dominici, Elena Dressler, Peter Fernandez, Corrado Gaipa, Lauro Gazzolo, Nando Gazzolo, Joyce Gordon, Sergio Graziani, Monte Hellman, Géneviève Hersent, Igino Lardani, Oreste Lionello, Anna Miserocchi, Glauco Onorato, Luigi Pavese, Nino Pavese, Bruno Persa, Mario Pisu, Enrico Maria Salerno, Deddi Savagnone, Rita Savagnone, Benito Stefanelli, Renato Turi, Tonino Valerii

Action, Drama, Western

Jolly Film, Constantin Film, Ocean Films

Italy, Spain, West Germany

Italian, Spanish

R

7.9

216555

65

A Fistful of Dollars (Italian: Per un pugno di dollari, lit. For a Fistful of Dollars titled on-screen as Fistful of Dollars) is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, W. Lukschy, S. Rupp, Jose Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joe Egger. The film, an international co-production between Italy, West Germany, and Spain, was filmed on a low budget (reported to be $200,000), and Eastwood was paid $15,000 for his role.

Released in Italy in 1964 and then in the United States in 1967, it initiated the popularity of the Spaghetti Western genre. It was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, also starring Eastwood. Collectively, the films are known as the Dollars Trilogy , or the Man with No Name Trilogy after the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood s character in all three films as the Man with No Name . All three films were later released in sequence in the United States in 1967, catapulting Eastwood into stardom. The film has been identified as an unofficial remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961), which resulted in a successful lawsuit by Toho, Yojimbo s production company.

As few Spaghetti Westerns had yet been released in the United States, many of the European cast and crew took on American-sounding stage names. These included Leone himself ( Bob Robertson ), Gian Maria Volonté ( Johnny Wels ), and composer Ennio Morricone ( Dan Savio ). A Fistful of Dollars was shot in Spain, mostly near Hoyo de Manzanares close to Madrid, but also (like its two sequels) in the Tabernas Desert and in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, both in the province of Almería.

$200,000 (estimated)

$14,500,000

$14,516,248

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