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A Fistful of Dollars (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (1967)

Clint Eastwood , Gian Maria Volonté , Sergio Leone  |  R |  DVD
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  • Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp
  • Directors: Sergio Leone
  • Writers: Sergio Leone, Adriano Bolzoni, Akira Kurosawa, Duccio Tessari, Fernando Di Leo
  • Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Dubbed: French, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: June 5, 2007
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (136 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000OPOAOI
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,669 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "A Fistful of Dollars (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Disc 1:
  • Feature Film
  • Audio Commentary
  • Disc 2:
  • Special Features:
  • Featurette- A New Kind of Hero
  • Featurette- A Few Weeks in Spain (Clint Eastwood on the experience of making this film)
  • Featurette- Cinqe Voci (Five friends remember Sergio Leone)
  • Featurette- Not Ready for Primetime (Monte Hellman discussion on The Prologue Shot for the first TV release to legitimize The Man with No Name's amoral killing)
  • Additional Scene- The Network Prologue - with Harry Dean Stanton
  • Featurette- Location Comparisons - intercutting film clips with current footage of locations used.
  • Radio Spots - 10 Radio spots - audio only with texted video

Editorial Reviews

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A Fistful of Dollars launched the spaghetti Western and catapulted Clint Eastwood to stardom. Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture Yojimbo, it scored a resounding success (in Italy in 1964 and the U.S. in 1967), as did its sequels, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The advertising campaign promoted Eastwood's character--laconic, amoral, dangerous--as the Man with No Name (though in the film he's clearly referred to as Joe), and audiences loved the movie's refreshing new take on the Western genre. Gone are the pieties about making the streets safe for women and children. Instead it's every man for himself. Striking, too, was a new emphasis on violence, with stylized, almost balletic gunfights and baroque touches such as Eastwood's armored breastplate. The Dollars films had a marked influence on the Hollywood Western--for example, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch--but their most enduring legacy is Clint Eastwood himself. --Edward Buscombe

Product Description

Clint Eastwood's legendary "Man With No Name" makes his powerful debut in this thrilling, action-packed "new breed of western" (Motion Picture Herald) from the acclaimed director of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More. Exploding with blistering shootouts, dynamic performances and atmospheric cinematography, it's an undisputed classic of the genre. A mysterious gunman (Eastwood) has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw,"the stranger soon receives offers of employment from each gang. But his loyalty cannot be bought; he accepts both jobs...and sets in motion a plan to destroy both groups of criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated setups, showdowns and deadly confrontations.

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34 of 39 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the "man with no name" trilogy September 13, 2005
Format:DVD
I think people are missing the point of this film when they focus on the action sequence. The underlying theme of the entire movie is one of self sacrifice for what is right and just. It is wrong to conclude that main the character (clint eastwood) pits the two gangs against each other for the money. If that is the case, then why does he give it ALL away to Marisol, to whom he owes NO obligation or favors, at the risk of his own life? Fortunately for the viewers, Marisol does ask why. His answer is "..because...I used to know someone like you..and there was no one to help.." (probably referring to his own mother whom he was powerless to rescue from the raping bandits). That one line says EVERYTHING about his past, his motivation, and the theme of the movie. The director goes to great length to convince the viewer the "man with no name" has no morals. In fact, he seems downright evil and greedy, as he constantly says "I don't work for cheap" and seems to be ready for hire for any sordid duties asked of him for the right price. Only in the very brief and defining moment of the movie (when he rescues Marisol, her son, and her husband) we see him as he truly is. Unlike most westerns, the man does not waste words preaching righteousness, he lets his actions speak for themselves. It is the moral subtlety of this movie which makes it great.
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25 of 30 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars "New Breed of Western......New Breed of Hero" September 23, 2002
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In the small dusty border town of San Miguel, two gangs of "criminals and smugglers" are both trying to take over the town and be the "bosses". Out of nowhere enters our hero, the very dangerous(but very cute) gunman with no name(Clint Eastwood). In this first of the trilogy directed by Sergio Leone
Clint decides to play the rival gangs against each other, first working for one then the other. Why? Because there's money to made here. In the process, there are deadly shootouts, Clint saves a family,gets his face bashed in (I hated that part) and well I wont give away the end.
This film was followed by "A Few Dollars More" and "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". All three a must see's for the Eastwood fan. This one was based on the Japaneese film "Yojimbo" and was also the basis for the more recent "Last Man Standing" starring Bruce Willis.
Billed as "A New Breed of Western" (more commonly called spaghetti westerns, although it was shot in Spain), it is a cinematic treat you wont want to miss. The actors performances are terrific and the scenery stunning.
The DVD(by MGM) is a must have. The picture is crisp, the colors are sharp and the widescreen excellent. The sound is Mono,(only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5) but it still sounds good, the horses and guns are crisp and the dialouge is fine.(The film is nearly 40 years old )
Not a whole lot of extras, but for me This movie was the extra!
What the DVD has is the Original Theatrical Trailer, Scene Selection, and a very informative booklet that talks about the making of the film. It also has subtitles, English and French which could be helpful for hearing impaired viewers, and a standard film format on the other side for those who might prefer it to the widescreen.
If you have never seen it and you like westerns, you'll love it. If you have already seen it and know you love it, you will enjoy the DVD.
thanx-Laurie

more clint stuff:
Paint Your Wagon

Music for the Movies of Clint Eastwood

Eastwood on Eastwood [VHS]
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A DVD worth many fistfuls of dollars June 10, 2007
Format:DVD
(This review refers to the new 2-disc "collector's edition" released in 2007.)

A Fistful of Dollars kicked off a new era for the western, a tried and true--and, by 1964, almost exhausted--cinematic genre that needed a fresh start. Audiences had grown cynical and tired of the white-hat/black-hat simplicity of most western classics and, as with the waning war-film genre, were looking for something different.

Enter Sergio Leone and A Fistful of Dollars, a gritty "Italian western" shot in Spain on a shoestring budget and starring an up-and-coming--but still virtually unknown--television actor named Clint Eastwood. The movie was a huge international hit, launched Eastwood into stardom, and spawned two subsequent "Man With No Name" westerns and dozens of imitations.

MGM's new release of this classic "new western" is outstanding. In recent years, I've been pleased every time MGM has issued a new release of a classic from its library, as every new edition has improved vastly upon those previous.

Picture quality: Excellent anamorphic transfer, diligently tidied up and restored. Outstanding.

Sound quality: Includes the requisite original mono track and an excellent new surround-sound mix.

Special features: Very good. An informative commentary track by film historian Sir Christopher Frayling is accompanied by a second disc including several nice featurettes, none of which are boring and none of which are so long that they wear out their welcome. I watched most of them while getting ready in the morning.

If you've been waiting for a good edition of A Fistful of Dollars, this is it.

Highly recommended.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Fistful od Dollars
like the move even if it is an old one. Eastwood always stays cool in all of his movies this is a different kind of acting that we enjoy
Published 5 days ago by Teresia L. Stage
3.0 out of 5 stars Meh
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was iconic; this sequel, not so much. Characters far too two-dimensional. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Luca Boyd
4.0 out of 5 stars Film History
These appearances by Clint Eastwood launched his career. Great soundtracks that broke ground for film music and really cool coming out of Italy where so much great art has come... Read more
Published 5 days ago by Robert Reitinger
5.0 out of 5 stars Eastwood movie A Fistful of Dollars
This movie needs to be in your collection; a great spaghetti movie. I was very happy to find this copy. The website made it easy to make my choices.
Published 14 days ago by Harry Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars They went further back then.
Spaghetti westerns... an acquired taste that always wets the palette for more. They just didn't make enough of 'em to suit me.
Published 23 days ago by Sparky
5.0 out of 5 stars Clint fan
I enjoyed his western. I was glad to get this 2 disc set of that movie. It is a must have if you like Clint or westerns.
Published 1 month ago by Kurt Mstoecklhuber
5.0 out of 5 stars The chicken or the egg?
Do you wonder which came first in his westerns?
Clint made about three a year.
Honestly, if he wasn't good I wouldn't have ordered them. Read more
Published 1 month ago by bookish
1.0 out of 5 stars NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE
Anyone thinking this American copy of the Japanese masterpiece Yojimbo is worth seeing will probably be disappointed. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Roman Nykolyshyn
2.0 out of 5 stars Didn't remember how bad it was
Hadn't seen this for years and I had forgotten how bad it was. Of course Clint looks pretty good (he was so young then)! But it's really pedantic and slow for today. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mary Greenbalt
5.0 out of 5 stars gift
This was a gift to one of my relatives. The item arrived quickly & my relative really liked the movie
Published 3 months ago by Spider
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