Though not used in the completed film, Peter Tevis recorded lyrics to Morricone's main theme for the film. A Fistful of Dollars. Released in Italy in 1964 and then in the United States in 1967, it initiated the popularity of the Spaghetti Western genre. [38] The film grossed $4.5 million for the year. [13][14][15][16] Leone then turned his attention to Richard Harrison, an expatriate American actor who had recently starred in the very first Italian western, Duello nel Texas. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "[28], Iginio Lardani created the film's title design.[29]. Despite the fact that even Hollywood began to gear down production of such films, Leone knew that there was still a significant market in Europe for westerns. However, Joe decides to work for both sides, playing one side against the other. A Fistful of Dollars is a classic Western that's also the first chapter of an iconic trilogy of films that only got better with each installation. A Fistful of Dollars is a genius film for its time and for all of movie history. Leone himself believed that Red Harvest had influenced Yojimbo: "Kurosawa's Yojimbo was inspired by an American novel of the serie-noire so I was really taking the story back home again."[55]. With Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy. Leone did revive his career almost instantly on the strength of this film , though the role was formerly offered to Charles Bronson , Frank Wolff , Rory Calhoun , Steve Reeves and Richard Harrison . [9] Actor and friend of Leone Mimmo Palmara told a similar story to Valerii, saying that Barboni had told about Yojimbo to him and he would see it the next day with Leone and his wife Carla. Esteban Rojo aims for the Stranger's back from a nearby building, but is shot dead by Silvanito. What are the differences between the UK theatrical cut and the uncensored Italian cut. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. [50] Quentin Tarantino, prior to hosting the event, in a press-release described the film as "the greatest achievement in the history of Cinema". Twitter; Facebook; Linked In; James Oliver. [27] It was Leone and costume designer Carlo Simi who decided on the Spanish poncho for the Man with No Name. Was this review helpful to you? [40] This adds up to $18.9 million grossed in Italy and North America. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Similar to other Italian films shot at the time, all footage was filmed silent, and the dialogue and sound effects were dubbed over in post-production. [10] Production papers for the film credit Spanish and German writers, but these were added on to play into co-production standards during this period in filmmaking in order to get more financing from the Spanish and West German companies. Frame-by-frame digital restoration by Prasad Corporation removed dirt, tears, scratches and other defects. As all of Eastwood's later Western and his ¨Dirty Harry¨ movies owe a considerable debt to Leone . Critic Philip French of The Observer stated: "The calculated sadism of the film would be offensive were it not for the neutralising laughter aroused by the ludicrousness of the whole exercise. Leone requested Morricone to write a theme that would be similar to Dimitri Tiomkin's El Degüello (used in Rio Bravo, 1959). It's a story that's been told numerous times in multiple languages, but it never gets old. [4] 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.[5]. "[11] However, the production company could not afford to employ a major Hollywood star. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie report. After challenging Ramón to reload his rifle, faster than he can reload his own revolver, the Stranger shoots and kills Ramón. Leone did not speak English,[20] and Eastwood communicated with the Italian cast and crew mostly through actor and stuntman Benito Stefanelli, who also acted as an uncredited interpreter for the production and would later appear in Leone's other pictures. He claims a thematic debt, for both Fistful and Yojimbo, to Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters—the basic premise of the protagonist playing two camps against each other. [22], A Fistful of Dollars became the first film to exhibit Leone's famously distinctive style of visual direction. He is a morbid, amusing, campy fraud". Harrison suggested Eastwood, who he knew could play a cowboy convincingly. [10] Bolzoni then said both he and Tessari wrote a first draft which then moved on to Leone noting that Tessari wrote the majority of the script. [9] Following the release of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo in 1963 in Italy, Sergio Corbucci has claimed he told Leone to make the film after viewing the film with friends and suggesting it to Enzo Barboni. Originally, Sergio Leone intended Henry Fonda to play the "Man with No Name. This was the first S.W. Women are portrayed traditionally in a very narrow light, either as a mother or widow. Ramón kills John and Antonio Baxter, after pretending to spare them. Rent $4.99. [10], Fernando di Leo also claimed authorship to the script noting that both A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were written by him and Tessari and not Luciano Vincenzoni. Despite the initial negative reviews from Italian critics, at a grassroots level its popularity spread and over the film's theatrical release, grossing 2.7 billion lire (US$4.4 million) in Italy, more than any other Italian film up to that point,[34] from admissions of 14,797,275 ticket sales. Members of the Baxter gang include Luis Barboo, Frank Braña, Antonio Molino Rojo, Lorenzo Robledo, and William R. Thompkins. Joe discovers that the town is dominated by two gangster lords: John Baxter (Wolfgang Lukschy) and the cruel Ramón Rojo (Gian Maria Volontè). [35][36] The film sold 4,383,331 tickets in France and 3,281,990 tickets in Spain,[37] for a total of 22,462,596 tickets sold in Europe. Leone originally attempted to obtain Henry Fonda for the role of “No Name”. "Some of the music was written before the film, which is unusual. A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. He adds that what makes the two themes similar is the execution, not the arrangement.[30]. Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. Drifter gunman, Joe (Clint Eastwood), arrives in the Mexican village of San Miguel at the border of the United States of America, and befriends the owner of the local bar, Silvanito. A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge. James Oliver on a film that reflected America back at itself, differently. He takes two of the dead bodies to a nearby cemetery and sells information to each of two groups, saying that two Mexican soldiers survived the attack. A Fistful of Dollars (Italian: Per un pugno di dollari) is a 1964 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood alongside Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joseph Egger. Directed by Sergio Leone. View production, box office, & company info. German actor Klaus Kinski plays a supporting role as a secondary villain. [44][45] This prolog opened television presentations for a few years before disappearing; it reappeared on the Special Edition DVD and the more recent Blu-ray, along with an interview with Monte Hellman about its making. 19 of 24 people found this review helpful. 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". [17] Harrison later stated, "Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing A Fistful of Dollars and recommending Clint for the part. The Stranger shoots that weapon from Ramón's hand and kills Don Miguel, Rubio and the other Rojo men standing nearby. [50], The film was effectively an unofficial and unlicensed remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo (written by Kurosawa and Ryūzō Kikushima), lifting traditional themes and character tropes usually typified within a Jidaigeki film. [citation needed], The production and development of A Fistful of Dollars from anecdotes was described by Italian film historian Roberto Curti as both contradictory and difficult to decipher. His approach was to take the grammar of Italian film and to transpose it into a western setting. [48], A Fistful of Dollars has achieved a 98% approval rating out of 48 critical reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 8.2/10. A Fistful of Dollars (Italian: Per un pugno di dollari) is a 1964 film about a wandering gunfighter playing two rival families against each other, the Rojos and Baxters. [8] The film was at first intended by Leone to reinvent the western genre in Italy. His opportunity comes when a detachment of Mexican soldiers escorting a shipment of gold passes through the town. The rhythm, emotion, and communication within scenes can be attributed to Leone's meticulous framing of his close-ups. He bought black jeans from a sport shop on Hollywood Boulevard, the hat came from a Santa Monica wardrobe firm, and the trademark cigars from a Beverly Hills store. In the premiere the main cast and technicians were replaced by American names as John Welles (Gian Maria Volonte) , master of arms Benny Reeves (Benito Stefanelli), Dan Savio (Ennio Morricone who composed a groundbreaking and streaking soundtrack) , designer production by Charles Simons (Carlo Simi) and even Bob Robertson (Sergio Leone) ; nowadays , justly stay the true names . The epitome of the S.W. Leone asserted that this rooted the origination of Fistful/Yojimbo in European, and specifically Italian, culture. He then sees an opportunity to make some money by working both sides. When Joe kills four men of Baxter's gang, he is hired by Ramón's brother, Esteban Rojo (Sieghardt Rupp), to join their gang. When a trumpet hits a solo on "Theme From Fistful of Dollars," backed by chilly strings and Spanish-strummed acoustic guitars, it's one of Byronic, beautiful, spacious solitude. [23] This is quite different from Hollywood's use of close-ups that used them as reaction shots, usually to a line of dialogue that had just been spoken. The film was an international co-production among Italy, West Germany, and Spain. Leone wanted an operatic feel to his western, and so there are many examples of extreme close-ups on the faces of different characters, functioning like arias in a traditional opera. In my analysis I will talk about the stylistic technique Mise-en-scene, but I will also inform you of the narrative techniques the film utilizes. The film ended up being released in Italy on 12 September 1964,[1] which was typically the worst month for sales. Harrison, however, had not been impressed with his experience on that previous film and refused. Additional cast members include Raf Baldassarre as Juan De Dios, Nino del Arco as Jesus, Enrique Santiago as Fausto, Umberto Spadaro as Miguel, Fernando Sánchez Polack as Vicente, and José Riesgo as the Mexican cavalry captain. During a conference with Morricone over the music in the film a recording of Tevis's Pastures of Plenty was played. When the Rojos discover the Stranger has freed Marisol, they capture and torture him; nevertheless, he escapes them. This film also made Clint Eastwood a top-lining movie star and truly kick-started Sergio Leone's career as a director. This was influenced by both John Ford's cinematic landscaping and the Japanese method of direction perfected by Akira Kurosawa. Howard Hughes, in his 2012 book Once Upon a Time in the Italian West, reflected by stating: "American and British critics largely chose to ignore Fistful's release, few recognising its satirical humour or groundbreaking style, preferring to trash the shoddy production values...". It was also placed 8th on the site's 'Top 100 Westerns'. While on holiday in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king: one from Rhodian patriots, and the other from sinister Phoenician agents. 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. The impact of this Spaghetti opened the gate for the huge numbers of Italian-Spanish Western which made fortune for their producers and directors in the sixties and early seventies . If one didn't know the actual provenance of the film, one would guess that it was a private movie made by a group of rich European Western fans at a dude ranch... A Fistful of Dollars looks awful, has a flat dead soundtrack, and is totally devoid of human feeling. Members of the Rojo gang include José Canalejas, Álvaro de Luna, Nazzareno Natale, and Antonio Pica. Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid.". The Continental Op hero of the novel is, significantly, a man without a name. It pits ¨Man with no name¨ against two families that are feuding over business : the Baxter (Wolfgang Lukschy , Margarita Lozano) and the Rojo (Gian Maria Volonte , Antonio Pietro , Sieghardt Rupp) . A Fistful of Dollars (Italian: Per un pugno di dollari, lit. For a Few Dollars More (Italian: Per qualche dollaro in più) is a 1965 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone.It stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as bounty hunters and Gian Maria Volonté as the primary villain. Next, Leone offered Charles Bronson the part. A Fistful of Dollars is a 1964 Western film starring Clint Eastwood as a stranger who finds himself entering a small Mexican town in the midst of a battle for control between two warring families. 'For a Fistful of Dollars'[1] 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 John Wells, Marianne Koch, W. Lukschy, S. Rupp, Jose Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joe Edger. 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. The main theme of A Fistful of Dollars is used mainly for the film’s protagonist, Clint Eastwood’s famous “man with no name” (though some call him “Joe” in this film). Released 1967. He, too, declined, arguing that the script was bad. A fistful of dollars: transmission of global funding shocks to emerging markets. He gives money to Marisol, urging her and her family to leave the town. A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. [52][53], British critic Sir Christopher Frayling identifies three principal sources for A Fistful of Dollars: "Partly derived from Kurosawa's samurai film Yojimbo, partly from Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest (1929), but most of all from Carlo Goldoni's eighteenth-century play Servant of Two Masters. The film's music was written by Ennio Morricone, credited as Dan Savio. This very special film concert closes the Bangalow Film Festival in 2021, with the classic Spaghetti Western – A fistful of Dollars – accompanied by a new score composed by the celebrated composer and DJ Chiara Costanza, and played live in the A&I Hall. [9][10] Following their screening, they discussed how it could be applied into a Western setting. Consuelo, John Baxter's wife, appears and curses the Rojos for killing these unarmed family members; she is shot to death by Esteban. That night, while the Rojos are celebrating, the Stranger rides out and frees Marisol, shooting the guards and wrecking the house in which she is being held, creating an appearance of an attack by the Baxters. "[54] Leone has cited these alternate sources in his defense. With a steel chest-plate hidden beneath his poncho, he taunts Ramón to "aim for the heart" as Ramón's shots bounce off, and Ramón exhausts his Winchester rifle. In fact , Richard Harrison was the one who suggested Clint Eastwood to Sergio Leone when the famed director was looking for the main actor , as Harrison said : Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing Fistful of Dollars , and recommending Clint for the part . [42], When the film was released on the televised network ABC on 23 February 1975,[43] a four and a half minute prolog was added to the film to contextualize the character and justify the violence. Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music for For A Fistful Of Dollars (Per Un Pugno Di Dollari) by Ennio Morricone arranged by Smim.it for Piano (Solo) Kurosawa insisted that Leone had made "a fine movie, but it was my movie. A Fistful of Dollars is violent , beautifully crafted and exaggerated . A Fistful of Dollars originally was called Il Magnifico Straniero (The Magnificent Stranger) before the title was changed to A Fistful of Dollars. I wasn't expecting that at all. Hammet’s Red Harvest informed Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, which was transformed into the first Sergio Leone Dollars blockbuster that took the world by storm (although it was not the first example of the form). [26] On the anniversary DVD for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, it was said that while Eastwood himself is a non-smoker, he felt that the foul taste of the cigar in his mouth put him in the right frame of mind for his character. ¨Man with no name¨ is helped by Silvanito (José Calvo) and an old gravedigger , Piripero (Joseph Egger).This classic Western contains slow and deliberating filming , elaborate shoot-outs , and portentous close-ups of grime-encrustred faces with bloodbaths included . He convalesces within a nearby mine, but when Piripero tells him that Silvanito has been captured, the Stranger returns to town, to confront the Rojos. In 2014, the film was digitally restored by Cineteca di Bologna and Unidis Jolly Film for its Blu-ray debut and 50th anniversary. There are a few minimal changes in plot, most likely because of the change in style. "[41], Bosley Crowther of The New York Times treated the film not as pastiche, but as camp-parody, stating that nearly every Western cliche could be found in this "egregiously synthetic but engrossingly morbid, violent film". Believing he is protected by the Baxters, the Rojos set fire to the Baxter home, massacring them as they flee the burning building. This one made Eastwood an international star and previously better-known for his running character in TV series ¨Rawhide¨. Joe discovers that the town is dominated by two gangster lords: John Baxter (Wolfgang Lukschy) and the cruel Ramón Rojo (Gian Maria Volontè). The film was initially shunned by the Italian critics, who gave it extremely negative reviews. [6] 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. Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964) was a western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s samurai classic Yojimbo from 1961. The film A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone can be analysed to be film that supports a patriarchal society that many argue still exists today. That's why the films are so slow—because of the music."[32]. Aakriti Mathur and Shekhar Hari Kumar. A Fistful of Dollars is the 1964 Italian (and originally unauthorized) remake of the Japanese film Yojimbo, which itself was allegedly inspired by the novel Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.It's the first in what's known as The Dollars Trilogy by Western fans, and was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.. [10], Eastwood was not the first actor approached to play the main character. Promoting A Fistful of Dollars was difficult, because no major distributor wanted to take a chance on a faux-Western and an unknown director. Drama. Close-ups of Eastwood's face from archival footage are inserted into the scene alongside Stanton's performance. All three films were later released in sequence in the United States in 1967, catapulting Eastwood into stardom. [10] Di Leo noted that Leone did not like the first draft of the script which led to him drastically re-writing it with Tessari. Certificate: M In his opinion, the American westerns of the mid- to late-1950s had become stagnant, overly preachy and not believable. A stranger, Joe (Eastwood), with innkeeper Silvanito (José Calvo), watches as Mexican soldiers bring a shipment of gold through San Miguel. He demonstrates his speed and accuracy with his gun, to both sides, by shooting with ease the four men who insulted him as he entered town. [21] For the Italian version of the film, Eastwood was dubbed by stage and screen actor Enrico Maria Salerno, whose "sinister" rendition of the Man with No Name's voice contrasted with Eastwood's cocksure and darkly humorous interpretation. A Fistful of Dollars was shot in Spain, mostly near Hoyo de Manzanares[7] 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. Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy A Fistful of Dollars directed by Sergio Leone for $14.99. It is a remake of Yojimbo (1961), which itself was based on 1929 novel "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett . "[18] Eastwood later spoke about transitioning from a television western to A Fistful of Dollars: "In Rawhide, I did get awfully tired of playing the conventional white hat ... the hero who kisses old ladies and dogs and was kind to everybody. 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