Per un pugno di dollari
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| Directed by | Sergio Leone |
| Produced by | Arrigo Colombo Giorgio Papi |
| Screenplay by |
Uncredited: Víctor Andrés Catena Jamie Comas Gil Fernando Di Leo Sergio Leone Duccio Tessari Tonino Valerii English Version: Mark Lowell Clint Eastwood |
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Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa Ryuzo Kikushima (both uncredited) |
| Starring |
Clint Eastwood Marianne Koch John Wells W. Lukschy S. Rupp Joe Edger |
| Music by | Dan Savio |
| Cinematography | Jack Dalmas |
| Edited by | Roberto Cinquini |
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| Distributed by | Unidis (Italy) United Artists (US & UK) |
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99 minutes |
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| Budget | $200,000–$225,000 |
| Box office | $14.5 million |
A Fistful of Dollars (Italian: Per un pugno di dollari, lit. "For a Fistful of Dollars"), titled on-screen as Fistful of Dollars, is a 1964 spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joseph Egger.
A Fistful of Dollars was filmed on a low budget (reported to be $200,000), and Eastwood was paid $15,000 for his role. Released in Italy in 1964 and then in the United States in 1967, it initiated the popularity of the spaghetti western film genre. It was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, also starring Eastwood. Collectively, the films are known as the "Dollars Trilogy", or "The Man With No Name Trilogy". The film has been identified as an unofficial remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961), which resulted in a successful lawsuit by Toho, the producers of Yojimbo. In the United States, the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood's character in all three films as the "Man with No Name".
As few spaghetti westerns had yet been released in the United States, many of the European cast and crew took on American-sounding stage names. These included Leone himself ("Bob Robertson"), Gian Maria Volontè ("Johnny Wels"), and composer Ennio Morricone ("Dan Savio"). A Fistful of Dollars was shot in Spain, mostly near Hoyo de Manzanares close to Madrid, but also (like its two sequels) in the Tabernas Desert and in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, both in Almería province.
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