A Fistful of Dollars (1964) movie poster

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Per un pugno di dollari
"In his own way he is, perhaps, the most dangerous man who ever lived!"
ThumbScore
👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 82%
Western

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Director
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
R
Country
Germany, Italy, Spain
Language
Italian
TMDB Rating
7.8/10 (4,631 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
98%
Metacritic
65

Cast

Clint Eastwood as Joe · 75% avg
Marianne Koch as Marisol
Gian Maria Volonté as Ramón Rojo · 84% avg
Wolfgang Lukschy as John Baxter
Sieghardt Rupp as Esteban Rojo
Joseph Egger as Piripero
Antonio Prieto as Don Benito Rojo / Don Miguel Rojo
José Calvo as Silvanito · 82% avg

Is A Fistful of Dollars good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 82%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#14 / 115 · Western
Rank in its year
#11 / 17 · 1964
Rank among its director's films
#3 / 6 · Sergio Leone

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

A Fistful of Dollars is a 1964 Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Leone, the film that launched both the Spaghetti Western genre and Clint Eastwood's international stardom. Eastwood stars as the Man with No Name, a laconic, cigarillo-smoking drifter who arrives in the small Mexican border town of San Miguel, which is torn between two rival criminal families — the Rojos and the Baxters — and plays both sides against each other for profit while secretly working to free a captive woman. The film was an unauthorized remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, a debt that resulted in a successful lawsuit by Kurosawa's production company.

Sergio Leone's visual style — extreme close-ups of eyes, vast empty landscapes, prolonged silence broken by sudden violence — revolutionized the Western genre and influenced filmmakers for decades. Ennio Morricone's score, featuring his signature whistling, guitar, and trumpet, was a revelation that redefined how Western films sounded. A Fistful of Dollars earned over $14 million in the United States alone and established Eastwood as the era's preeminent Western icon.

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