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A Fistful Of Dollars 1964.
By the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20
films ironically labelled "spaghetti westerns." Leone approached the genre with
great love and humour. Although the plot was admittedly borrowed from Akira
Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), Leone managed to create a work of his own that would
serve as a model for many films to come. Clint Eastwood plays a cynical gunfighter
who comes to a small border town and offers his services to two rivalling gangs.
Neither gang is aware of his double play, and each thinks it is using him, but the
stranger will outwit them both. The picture was the first instalment in a cycle
commonly known as the "Dollars" trilogy. Later, United Artists, who distributed it
in the U.S., coined another term for it: the "Man With No Name" trilogy. While not
as impressive as its follow-ups For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the
Bad, and the Ugly (1966), A Fistful of Dollars contains all of Leone's eventual
trademarks: taciturn characters, precise framing, extreme close-ups, and the
haunting music of Ennio Morricone. Not released in the U.S. until 1967 due to
copyright problems, the film was decisive in both Clint Eastwood's career and the
recognition of the Italian western.
Stars.
=>-Clint Eastwood : Joe.
=>-Marianne Koch : Marisol.
=>-Gian Maria Volonte : Ramon Rojo.
=>-Wolfgang Lukschy : John Baxter.
=>-Sieghardt Rupp : Esteban Rojo.
Director.
=>-Sergio Leone.
For A Few Dollars More 1965.
This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back
Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing "Man With No Name." Engaged in an
ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man
joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal bandit Indio (Gian Maria Volontè).
Both the Eastwood and Van Cleef characters are given understandable motivations for
their bloodletting tendencies, something that was lacking in A Fistful of Dollars.
In both films, however, the violence is raw and uninhibited -- and in many ways,
curiously poetic. Leone's tense, tight close-ups, pregnant pauses, and significant
silences have since been absorbed into the standard spaghetti Western lexicon;
likewise, Ennio Morricone's haunting musical score has been endlessly imitated and
parodied. For a Few Dollars More was originally titled Per Qualche Dollaro in Più;
it would be followed by the last and best of the Man with No Name trilogy, The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Stars.
=>-Clint Eastwood : Monco.
=>-Marianne Koch : Marisol.
=>-Gian Maria Volonte : El Indio.
=>-Aldo Sambrell : Cuchillio.
=>-Lee Van Cleef : Col. Douglas Mortimer.
Director.
=>-Sergio Leone.
The Good The Bad And The Ugly 1966.
In the last and the best instalment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio
Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a
taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against
rivals the Bad (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and the Ugly
(Eli Wallach), a Mexican bandit. Though dubbed "the Good," Eastwood's character is
not much better than his opponents -- he is just smarter and shoots faster. The
film's title reveals its ironic attitude toward the canonized heroes of the
classical western. "The real West was the world of violence, fear, and brutal
instincts," claimed Leone. "In pursuit of profit there is no such thing as good and
evil, generosity or deviousness; everything depends on chance, and not the best
wins but the luckiest." Immensely entertaining and beautifully shot in Techniscope
by Tonino Delli Colli, the movie is a virtually definitive "spaghetti western,"
rivalled only by Leone's own Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). The main musical
theme by Ennio Morricone hit #1 on the British pop charts. Originally released in
Italy at 177 minutes, the movie was later cut for its international release.
Stars.
=>-Clint Eastwood : Blondie.
=>-Luigi Pistilli : Father Pablo Ramirez.
=>-Eli Wallach : Tuco.
=>-Aldo Sambrell : Maria.
=>-Lee Van Cleef : Angel Eyes.
Director.
=>-Sergio Leone.
Info.
=>-Genre : Action : Adventure : Western : Cult Classic.
=>-Languages : English.
=>-Chapters : 18 : 13 : 20.
=>-File Size : 3.05 GiB : 4.34 GiB : 5.71 GiB.
=>-Overall bit rate : 3 920 kbps.
=>-Movie Runtime : 1h 39min : 2h 12min : 2h 54min.
Video.
=>-Codec : H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
=>-Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1.
=>-Resolution : 1 920 x 816.
=>-Bit rate : 4 697 kbps.
Audio 1 English.
=>-Codec : mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC.
=>-Channels : 2 channels.
=>-Bit Rate : 128 kbps.
=>-Maximum bit rate : 251 kbps.
Audio 2 English.
=>-Codec : Digital Audio Compression AC-3.
=>-Channels : 6 channels L R C LFE Ls Rs.
=>-Bit Rate : 640 kbps.
=>-Bit rate mode : Constant.
Subtitles - Softsubbed : SubRip : MicroDVD : VobSub.
=>-English.