A Fistful of Dollars
It wasn't really the first film of its kind, but the western all'Italiana - or "spaghetti Western" - was never the same again after Sergio Leone's groundbreaking A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood in the classic role that made him an international icon.
A nameless stranger (Eastwood) rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel and quickly finds himself in the middle of a bloody battle for power between two rival families, the Baxters and the Rojos. Cannily realising there's money to be made from playing each side against the other, the Man with No Name soon finds himself caught in the crossfire as the body count escalates, his only chance of escape a standoff against the Rojos' mercilessly cruel leader, Ramón (Gian Maria Volonté).
Leone's clever and contemporary inversion of Western archetypes was not only the first entry in a much-beloved trilogy, but the director's first collaboration with the brilliant composer Ennio Morricone. Now fully uncut and freshly restored in glorious 4K with an arsenal of new and old bonus material, the Man with No Name rides again like never before!
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Supplements
- Audio commentary by film historian and Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling
- Audio commentary by film historian and critic Tim Lucas
- Italian Theatrical Trailer
- German Theatrical Trailer
- German Re-Release Trailer
- UK Teaser Trailer
- Double Bill Trailer
- US Theatrical Trailer
- US TV Spots
- Radio Spots
- When It All Started, a newly filmed interview with film historian and critic Fabio Melelli
- Four Fingers Four Picks, a newly filmed interview with guitarist Bruno Battisti D'Amario
- Wind & Fire, a newly filmed interview with Morricone biographer Alessandro de Rosa
- A Night at the Movies, a newly filmed interview with filmmaker Paolo Bianchini
- A Fistful of Outtakes, highlights from the original rushes
- The Day the Soundtrack Changed, a new visual essay by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon exploring the film's iconic score
- Marisol: Leone's Madonna of the West, an archival interview with co-star Marianne Koch
- The Christopher Frayling Archives: A Fistful of Dollars
- A New Kind of Hero
- A Few Weeks in Spain, an archival interview with Clint Eastwood
- Tre Voci, an archival featurette with Leone collaborators Mickey Knox, Sergio Donati and Alberto Grimaldi
- Opening scene with Harry Dean Stanton filmed for the film's US TV debut in 1975
- Archival interview with the prologue's director Monte Hellman
- Restoration Italian Style, an archival featurette on the film's remastering for DVD
- Alternate credits sequences
- Location Comparisons 1964-2004, an archival featurette
- A FISTFUL in Pictures - Animated Image Gallery (14:52)
- Promoting A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS - Animated Image Gallery (15:48)
- A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS - On the Set - Animated Image Gallery (3:57)
- Perfect bound collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Henry Blyth, Bilge Ebiri, Pasquale Iannone and Eloise Ross
- Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella