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A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari in Italy, and officially on-screen in the U.S. as simply Fistful of Dollars) is a 1964 film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood. Released in the United States in 1967, it initiated the popularity of the Spaghetti western film 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 commonly known as "The Dollar(s) Trilogy". In the U.S., the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood's character in all three films as The Man With No Name.

Plot

The plot of the film involves Eastwood as a gunman (referred to as "Joe" twice by an old man in the town) who arrives in a small town on the frontier and plays the town's two rival factions, the Rojos and the Baxters, against each other in order to make money off both sides and save a family caught in the crossfire.

Influence

Although the film was advertised in trailers as "the first film of its kind", the plot and even the cinematography was based almost entirely on Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo (written by Kurosawa and Ryuzo Kikushima). Yojimbo itself is believed to have been based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, although Kurosawa never credited the author, despite acknowledging the source. The producers of Yojimbo successfully sued the production of A Fistful of Dollars for copyright infringement, and gained an apology, and $100,000 dollars and 15% of the box office totals in Asia to the movie in compensation. Kurosawa later admitted he quite liked A Fistful of Dollars and considered it a worthy remake.

Stephen King has credited the trilogy with inspiring the atmosphere of his novel The Gunslinger.

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Movies - A Fistful of Dollars

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