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A.k.a.
A Fistful of Dollars
Year
1964
Runtime
99 min.
Director
Sergio Leone
Genres
Action, Drama, Western
Rating *
8.0
Votes *
134,334
Checks
18,261
Favs
1,381
Dislikes
52
Favs/checks
7.6% (1:13)
Favs/dislikes
27:1
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  1. Malfumax's avatar

    Malfumax

    Get 3 coffins ready

    ...
    My mistake, 4 coffins
    12 years 8 months ago
  2. Siskoid's avatar

    Siskoid

    A Fistful of Dollars' low budget can be seen in its worse-than-usual dub and ridiculous day-for-night, but it made stars out of Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, and Ennio Morricone. Rightly so. Leone manages to create a Wild West that is at once iconic and unique, using giant close-ups, violent action, and stark Spanish locations. Morricone's whistling score is the first of several that would become synonymous with the western. And Eastwood's poncho-wearing "Man with No Name" cuts a distinct figure and an ambiguous personality. In the first of a loose trilogy, he is a sort of trickster who plays two criminal factions against one another to make money, but also free a family enslaved by evil men. He's both selfish and altruistic, a con man and a gunfighter, a Coyote god and an arrogant man whose hubris will get him into trouble. There's something mythic about the story and the way it plays out, with strong action beats we haven't seen a hundred times. It's like Leone doesn't really know how thing are normally done, so his take remains fresh to this day. 5 years 9 months ago
  3. frankqb's avatar

    frankqb

    A ridiculous low-budget pulp that nonetheless manages to tell a somewhat coherent story - notwithstanding how the Rojos gang manages to hear the bullets being shot at the small house which is clearly at least a mile away over some mountains.

    It’s fine, and maybe it was groundbreaking at the time, but it does nothing for me. Moreover, the weirdness of the American/Mexican dynamic just doesn’t play well in modern times.

    It’s odd, but it’s fine.

    3 stars
    9 months 4 weeks ago
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  1. This movie ranks #7 in The Spaghetti Western Database's Essential Top 50 Films
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  2. This movie ranks #20 in IMDb's Western Top 50
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  3. This movie ranks #23 in BFI's 100 Westerns
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  4. This movie ranks #79 in Doubling the Canon
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  5. This movie ranks #167 in Roy Menarini's Il Grande Cinema Italiano
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  6. This movie ranks #243 in FOK!'s Film Top 250
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  7. This movie ranks #261 in Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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  8. This movie ranks #340 in Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life
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  9. This movie ranks #722 in Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown
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  10. This movie ranks #1277 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 1001-2500
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