This is
the first of a series of three "Man With No Name" movies
Eastwood starred in that were directed by Sergio Leone.
Ushering in the era of the "Spaghetti Western", A Fistful Of
Dollars helped to make Eastwood a box office superstar.
Eastwood's character arrives in dusty border town controlled
by two rival groups of smugglers. Clint pitts the two
groups against each other until there are none left.
One of my favorite scenes is where the man with no name
(Clint) tells a group of thugs that just shot at his mule, that
the mule was upset and should be apologized to. He was
willing to overlook the matter but the mule was somewhat
sensitive about these things. They of course laughed at
him but Clint shut each of them up with a bullet.
Clint takes a serious beating in one scene but comes
back to town to set things straight, after healing a bit from
his wounds of course. The success of the film led to two more
Leone Directed films starring Eastwood: For A Few Dollars
More (1965) and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
(1966). Although the "Man With No Name" Films didn't make
it to the Unites States until 1967, Clint was already a
superstar in Europe. |
