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Monday, February 07, 2000
The first of the "spaghetti westerns", A Fistful Of Dollars became an instant cult hit. It also launched the film careers of Italian Writer-Director Sergio Leone, and a little known American television actor named Clint Eastwood. As the lean, cold-eye cobra-quick gunfighter - Clint became the first of the "anti-heroes". The cynical, enigmatic loner with a clouded past is the same character Eastwood fans have been savouring ever since. A Fistful Of Dollars is the western taken to the extreme - with unremitting violence, gritty realism and tongue-in-cheek humour. Leone's direction is taut and stylish, and the visuals are striking - from the breathtaking panoramas (in Spain) to the extreme close-ups of quivering lips and darting eyes before the shoot-out begins. And all are accented by renowned film composer Ennio Morricone's quirky, haunting score.
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The Canaries have never looked so good.
Philip from Dublin, 14 Aug 2011
An unimpeachable classic, that unlike most westerns hasn't aged at all - its still gripping, funny and exciting, almost as good as Yojimbo, the Kurosawa movie Leone ripped off (some sections are practically a shot by shot remake). Clintwood has never been better, and the ending is brilliant. Unmissable.
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A Fist Full of Dollars
Patrick from Mayo, 13 May 2009
Loved it the bad man get's it in the end
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fistfull of dollars
martin from Meath, 25 Oct 2008
cant beat the oldies
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