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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Monte Hellman, Sergio Leone |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 18 January, 1967 |
| MANUFACTURER: | MGM (Video & DVD) |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action, Adventure, Movie, Westerns |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616785824 |
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Customer Reviews of A Fistful of Dollars
A Western Grimms Fairy tale! In the US Clint Eastwood does not have the legendary reputation of artistic merit as he does in Europe. If you watch this film closely, you see greatness not in Clint but for Sergio Leone, the director, whose film-making transformed the Western film genre. <
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>Or just enjoy this now classic film on its own merit as a timeless great--yet grim--Western.
Western Clone of Kurosawa's "Yojimbo"
Watch Kurosawa's "Yojimbo," released in 1961--three years prior to "A Fistful of Dollars," and you will see striking similarities between the two films. There were enough to make me realize that the latter was spawned directly from the former.
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>Leone does a fine job, but I think Kurosawa, the rightful cinematic originator of the mercenary "man with no name," does even better, perhaps much better. The added starkness and keener editing of "Yojimbo" (shot in black-and-white) gives it another leg up, too, I think.
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Good Western
This is one of Clint Eastwood's westerns where he rides into town, accomplishes a purpose, rides out again, and fades into the sunset, leaving the women and the gold behind. That is in sharp contrast to "Paint Your Wagon," where he stayed with the woman, or "Kelly's Heroes," where he kept the gold. It is not an award winner, but is a solid western. The best of his western films is "The Unforgiven."
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>The setting for this motion picture is across the border in a small Mexican town. He finds himself caught in the middle between two families fighting over a lucrative border trade, selling guns to Indians, etc. He sets the two sides against each other, saving the good people and killing the bad, before he fades away.
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>It is worth watching if you like westerns. Other reviewers have covered various details.