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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.
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.
June 22, 2006
Three Movie Buffs
What Leone does with this movie is boil the Western down to its very essence, removing all the extraneous parts.
... 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.
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.