A Fistful of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars is a 1964 Clint Eastwood spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone. It's based on Yojimbo. In fact it's pretty close to a scene-by-scene remake, and you can't go wrong with Kurosawa as the source material. The music is by Ennio Morricone. This is a classic. Priceless!

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Spaghetti-Western.net says, "All in all, A Fistful of Dollars deserves its place in cinema history. The combined genius of Leone's comic book art visuals and Morricone's piercingly emotive sounds set a lasting standard that has been rarely matched." Empire Online gives it 5 out of 5 stars and calls it "a deserved classic of the genre it invented". DVD Talk says,

It's the kind of movie that casts a spell regardless of how many times you have seen it, commanding your interest to such a degree that it makes you forget what you know about the narrative and just go along, eager for each new shoot-out and to see who is left standing once all the bodies are counted.

Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 98%.