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  2. Dollars Trilogy - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. A Fistful of Dollars - Wikipedia

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    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 & Ramón), and the family comprising the town sheriff, John Baxter; his matriarchal wife, Consuelo; and their son, Antonio.

  4. Sergio Leone filmography - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Sergio Leone - Wikipedia

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    Leone's film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawa's film was, in turn, probably based on the 1929 Dashiell Hammett novel, Red Harvest. A Fistful of Dollars is also notable for establishing Clint Eastwood as a star. [17] Until that time, Eastwood had been an American television actor with few credited film roles.

  6. Spaghetti Western - Wikipedia

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    In Leone's film, Eastwood's character is an unshaven bounty hunter, dressed similarly to his character in A Fistful of Dollars, who enters an unstable partnership with Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), an older bounty killer who uses more sophisticated weaponry and wears a suit, and, in the end, turns out to also be an avenger. In the following ...

  7. Man with No Name - Wikipedia

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    A Fistful of Dollars was directly adapted from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961). It was the subject of a lawsuit by Yojimbo ' s producers. [6] Yojimbo ' s protagonist, an unconventional rōnin (a samurai with no master) played by Toshiro Mifune, bears a striking resemblance to Eastwood's character: both are quiet, gruff, eccentric strangers with a strong but unorthodox sense of justice and ...

  8. For a Few Dollars More - Wikipedia

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    For a Few Dollars More was released in Italy on 30 December 1965 as Per Qualche Dollaro in Più. [17] The film proved to be even more commercially successful than its predecessor. [18] By 1967, the film became the highest-grossing film in Italy with a gross of 3.1 billion lire ($5 million) from 14,543,161 admissions. [19] [20] [21] [22]

  9. Gian Maria Volonté - Wikipedia

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    Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor and activist. He is best known for his roles in four Spaghetti Western films: Ramón Rojo in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964), El Indio in Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965), El Chuncho Munoz in Damiano Damiani's A Bullet for the General (1966) and Professor Brad Fletcher in Sergio Sollima's Face to Face ...