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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 0027616077387 Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: M107738 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 05, 2007 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1967 Editorial Review: Product Description: An anonymous but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying as most other would do the man schemes to play the two sides off each other getting rich in the bargain.Run Time: 100 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 027616077387 Manufacturer No: M107738 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 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 ... 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. ... 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) ... 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 ... Read More Rating:  - fist full of dollars--a young clint eastwood in a young western that makes no sense!! I didn't like it! IT was extremely unbelievable, especially the one scene that a machine gun hidden in the back of a wagon has killed an entire calvary troop but only kills two horses. I just don't think this is one of his best movies |
