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The Dollars Trilogy spawned a series of spin-off books focused on the Man with No Name, dubbed the Dollars series due to the common theme in their titles: A Fistful of Dollars (1972), film novelization by Frank Chandler; For a Few Dollars More (1965), film novelization by Joe Millard; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967), film novelization by ...
Co-director. Mario Bonnard is the credited director, Leone served as assistant director and reportedly took over completion of the film when Bonnard became severely ill during production. 1961 The Colossus of Rhodes: Il Colosso di Rodi: Yes Yes Directorial debut 1964 A Fistful of Dollars: Per un pugno di dollari: Yes Yes First part of the ...
Leone and Enzo Santaniello on the set of Once Upon a Time in the West. The look of A Fistful of Dollars was established by its Spanish locations, which presented a violent and morally complex vision of the American Old West. The film paid tribute to traditional American Western films, but significantly departed from them in storyline, plot ...
An unnamed stranger [N 1] arrives at the little town of San Miguel, on the Mexico–United States border.Silvanito, the town's innkeeper, tells the Stranger about a feud between two smuggler families vying to gain control of the town: the Rojo brothers — Don Miguel, Esteban and Ramón — and the family of the town sheriff, John Baxter; his matriarchal wife, Consuelo; and their son, Antonio.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 92% approval rating with an average rating of 8.1/10 based on 38 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "With Clint Eastwood in the lead, Ennio Morricone on the score, and Sergio Leone's stylish direction, For a Few Dollars More earns its recognition as a genre classic." [29]
This list of best-selling films in the United States is a list of the best-selling home video film titles sold in the United States. This list only includes physical media (such as VHS , DVD and Blu-ray ), and does not include digital purchases or video rentals .
Subsequent re-releases have largely used the title A Fistful of Dynamite, [28] [29] although the DVD appearing in The Sergio Leone Anthology box set, released by MGM in 2007, used the original English language title of Duck, You Sucker!. [30] [31] The film's first English language DVD was released by MGM in the UK in 2003.
The Cannon Group, Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced films from 1967 to 1994. [2] The extensive group also owned, amongst others, a large international cinema chain and a video film company that invested heavily in the video market, buying the international video rights to several classic film libraries.