{"id":39434,"date":"2025-07-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39434"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:31:57","slug":"39434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39434","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Fistful of Dollars&#8221; (1964) directed by Sergio Leone; starring Clint Eastwood \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z072125zview_fistfuldollars.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>A Fistful of Dollars <\/i><\/b>(1964)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Sergio Leone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>V\u00edctor Andr\u00e9s Catena, Jaime Comas Gil, Sergio Leone, Fernando Di Leo <\/strong>(uncredited), <strong>Duccio Tessari<\/strong> (uncredited) <strong>Tonino Valerii; <\/strong>written by <strong>Adriano Bolzoni, Mark Lowell, V\u00edctor Andr\u00e9s Catena, Sergio Leone;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <em>Yojimbo<\/em> (1961)\u00a0 by <strong>Akira Kurosawa, Ry\u016bz\u014d Kikushima<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Clint Eastwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> In his own way he is, perhaps, the most dangerous man who ever lived!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a gunfighter rides into the frontier town of San Miguel, he learns that two crime families are at war.\u00a0 Seeing an opportunity to get rich, the gunslinger decides to play both sides of the street.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a plan that could cost him his life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A Fistful of Dollars<\/em> was seen as overly violent when first released.\u00a0 Critics said The Man with No Name was just another gun thug willing to kill anyone for money.\u00a0 In fact before <em>A Fistful of Dollars<\/em> was shown on ABC in 1975, a prologue was added.\u00a0 It featured a stand-in for Eastwood, a couple of shots of Eastwood&#8217;s eyes and Harry Dean Stanton as a government official.\u00a0 Eastwood&#8217;s character is offered a pardon if he goes to San Miguel and cleans up the town.\u00a0 Now instead of a greedy coldblooded killer, Eastwood is a man on a mission for justice. Bah!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Akira Kurosawa sued since <em>A Fistful of Dollars<\/em> is basically <em>Yojimbo <\/em>as a western. Leone settled out of court, reportedly for 15% of the worldwide receipts of <em>A Fistful of Dollars<\/em>.\u00a0 What&#8217;s funny is that <em>Yojimbo<\/em> is an adaption of Dashiell Hammett&#8217;s gangster novel RED HARVEST.\u00a0 The lone gunfighter becomes a ronin going against samurai for<em> Yojimbo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clint Eastwood was offered the role after it was turned down by Steve Reeves, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Charles Bronson and Richard Harrison.\u00a0 The role was then offered to the star of the television series <em>Rawhide<\/em>, Eric Fleming.\u00a0 Fleming turned it down, but suggested his<em> Rawhide<\/em> co-star, Clint Eastwood.\u00a0 The rest is history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>A Fistful of Dollars (1964) <\/i><\/b>rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z072125zview_fistfuldollars2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Director:\u00a0 Sergio Leone Screenplay: V\u00edctor Andr\u00e9s Catena, Jaime Comas Gil, Sergio Leone, Fernando Di Leo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39441,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39434\/revisions\/39441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}