A Fistful of Dollars

About A Fistful of Dollars

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) is a western film directed by Sergio Leone. Its themes are greed, spaghetti western, gunslinger, and gang war.

Clint Eastwood appears as Joe, Marianne Koch as Marisol, Gian Maria Volonté as Ramón Rojo, and Wolfgang Lukschy as John Baxter. It runs 99 minutes and was released in September 1964.

The screenplay is by Duccio Tessari and Fernando Di Leo. Produced by Constantin Film. It is adapted from a novel. It streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus in the United States.

Man on Fire, The Great Silence, and The Revenant make useful companions to A Fistful of Dollars, all filed under gun battle and gun death. TMDB voters put it at 7.8 out of 10 across 4,942 votes and it carries a R rating.