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A Fistful of Dollars
A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. And he plays the two bands at the same time.
















5 March 1923, Rome, Lazio, Italy

January 17, 1932 in Rome, Lazio, Italy

22 February 1889, Donawitz, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

19 October 1905, Berlin, Germany

April 10, 1935 in Madrid, Spain

20 March 1927, Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

March 21, 1918 in Hollywood, California, USA

2 September 1928, Rome, Lazio, Italy

8 May 1941, Rome, Lazio, Italy

1921

November 8, 1904 in Ancona, Marche, Italy

14 February 1931, Tetuan, Spain


January 01, 2000
Really little more than a series of loosely connected shoot-outs -- but, as Sergio Leone proved, there can be a lot of fun in that.
January 26, 2006
Though far less operatic and satisfying than Leone's later work, his first spaghetti Western with Eastwood still looks stylish, if a little rough at the edges.
July 12, 2010
What Leone does with this movie is boil the Western down to its very essence, removing all the extraneous parts.
August 20, 2011
The moment where Sergio Leone, anonymous costume drama hack turned into Sergio Leone, keen stylist and poet of cruelty.
December 29, 2011
Westerns were never the same after Sergio Leone.
March 26, 2009
This is a hard-hitting item, ably directed, splendidly lensed, neatly acted, which has all the ingredients wanted by action fans and then some.
December 14, 2010
Guns galore in intro "spaghetti Western" serving.
June 22, 2006
From Clint Eastwood's iconic performance to Ennio Morricone's unforgettable (and much-parodied) musical score, A Fistful of Dollars (****) took the western down trails it had never explored.
May 09, 2005
Egregiously synthetic but engrossingly morbid, violent film.
May 23, 2011
Once in a great while a western comes along that breaks new ground and becomes a classic of the genre.
May 12, 2017
... this was a new kind of western: cynical, violent, stylish, and austere, playing out in a landscape of endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen.