A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Original Title: Per un pugno di dollari
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
Release Date: 12 September 1964
Certification: R
Director: Sergio Leone
Writer: Adriano Bolzoni, Mark Lowell, Víctor Andrés Catena
Director of Photography: Massimo Dallamano, Federico G. Larraya
Original Music Composer: Ennio Morricone
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, Joseph Egger, José Calvo, Daniel Martín, Benito Stefanelli, Mario Brega, Bruno Carotenuto, Aldo Sambrell
Genres: Spaghetti Westerns; IMDB
Overview: A mysterious gunfighter (Clint Eastwood) arrives in a small town torn apart by greed, as the sheriff (Wolfgang Lukschy) and the Rojo brothers (Gian Maria Volontè, Sieghardt Rupp and Antonio Prieto) vie for control.

Relevant Facts

A Fistful of Dollars is widely regarded – though not acknowledged – as a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 film Yojimbo. A lawsuit filed by Kurosawa kept the film from being released in the United States until 1967
First film in what would become known as the Dollars Trilogy, followed by For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Remade as Last Man Standing (1996), starring Bruce Willis as a Prohibition-era gunman-for-fire who finds himself in the midst of an Irish vs. Italian mob war in a ghost town