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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 2 EAN: 9780792842545 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0792842545 Item Dimensions: Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: 907858 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 05, 1999 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1967 Editorial Review: Product Description: A mysterious gunman (Eastwood) has just arrived in San Miguel a grim dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw" the stranger soon receives offers of employment from each gang. But his loyalty cannot be bought; he accepts both jobs...and sets in motion a plan to destroy both groups of criminals pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated set-ups showdowns and deadly confrontations.System Requirements:Starring: Clint Eastwood Marianne Koch John Wels W. Lukschy S. Rupp and Joe Edger. Directed By: Sergio Leone Running Time: 110 Mins. Color This film is presented in both "Widescreen" and "Standard" formats. Copyright 1999 MGM Home Entertainment Inc.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 027616785824 Manufacturer No: 907858 Amazon.com essential video: A Fistful of Dollars launched the spaghetti Western and catapulted Clint Eastwood to stardom. Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture Yojimbo, it scored a resounding success (in Italy in 1964 and the U.S. in 1967), as did its sequels, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The advertising campaign promoted Eastwood's character--laconic, amoral, dangerous--as the Man with No Name (though in the film he's clearly referred to as Joe), and audiences loved the movie's refreshing new take on the Western genre. Gone are the pieties about making the streets safe for women and children. Instead it's every man for himself. Striking, too, was a new emphasis on violence, with stylized, almost balletic gunfights and baroque touches such as Eastwood's armored breastplate. The Dollars films had a marked influence on the Hollywood Western--for example, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch--but their most enduring legacy is Clint Eastwood himself. --Edward Buscombe Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The First Important SpaghettiNo more Rawhide for Clint Eastwood,as the stranger rides on to Italy to meet a legendary director by the name of Sergio Leone to make this classic western that started a trilogy and a genre like no other,with a distinctive richocet sound of bullets,the sun blazed deserts of the Madrid,the rolling hills of landscape and bold scenery,hardened men from the the way of life growing up in the old west,where survival was a reliable .44 and violence was just an ordinary daily routine and the woman were mainly ... Read More Rating:  - The first classic in the Spaghetti Western genre - a remake of Kurosawa's YojimboThis 1964 film was the first of what came to be called "Spaghetti Westerns" and took then TV star Clint Eastwood and made him into a major Movie Star. If you look on IMDG at Clint Eastwood's career you will be amazed at how rich and varied it has been. Star of all kinds of movies, director of many films, producer, writer, and much more. Just amazing. This film is Sergio Leone's remake of Kurosawa's wonderful "Yojimbo" (1961) and uses guns instead of swords just as John Sturges's "The ... Read More Rating: - A great Eastwood Spaghetti western classicThis is one of the "man with no name" spaghetti western movies. Clint, bounty hunter, rides into a town where his horse is scared off by several of the local bullies and leaves Clint horseless and hanging onto a saloon sign. After a drink and chat with the bartender, he approaches the thugs and asks them to apologize to his horse. They try to draw on him, but, in cool fashion, Clint guns them all down. Later, he recognizes an opportunity to be a hired gun for one of the town's gang families. Things ... Read More Rating:  - Sergio Leone directed several masterpieces--this isn't one of themHere's where it all began: the first of director Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" and the movie that launched Clint Eastwood's career. Leone and Eastwood would go on to have many triumphs both together and apart, but when this film is stripped of its historical importance what's left is an average-at-best western. A low-budget affair marred by ugly photography and bad audio dubbing, FISTFUL's thin plot is cribbed from Kurosawa's YOJIMBO (and, indirectly, Dashiell Hammett's novel RED HARVEST) but lacks ... Read More Rating: - Sergio Leone's masterful version of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo", was the first important Spaghetti WesternThis epic cinema classic in western, filmed in Italy, West Germany and Spain, was the first major film by Italian master filmaker Sergio Leone, introducing one of the most recognizable characters in film history: The stone cold killer cowboy, always cool, silent mercenary and head-hunter, bulls-eye expert shooter, the man with "no name". Ice cold look, no emotions, and incredible "poncho" wearing cynical gun fighter, our man Clint Eastwood. Of course 20 spaghetti westerns were produced before this one, but ... Read More |
