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The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Rated R | Length 99 minutes
Clint Eastwood | Benito Stefanelli | Gian Maria Volonté | Josef Egger | Marianne Koch | Wolfgang Lukschy | José Calvo | Sieghardt Rupp | Antonio Prieto | Margarita Lozano | Daniel Martín | Bruno Carotenuto | Mario Brega | Luis Barboo | Aldo Sambrell | Frank Braña | José Canalejas | Antonio Pica | Lorenzo Robledo | Antonio Molino Rojo | Fernando Sánchez Polack | Juan Cortés | Lee Miller | Álvaro de Luna | José Riesgo | Jose Halufi | Antonio Vico | José Orjas | Manuel Peña | Umberto Spadaro | Nino Del Arco | Julio Pérez Tabernero | Antonio Moreno | Edmondo Tieghi | William R. Thompkins | Luis Rodriguez | Peter Tevis | Antonio Montoya
A Fistful of Dollars is Sergio Leone’s take on Kurusawa’s Yojimbo, except set in Mexico in the 1800s. This movie kicked off the Spaghetti Western sub-genre and was the first in the “Man With No Name” trilogy of westerns, all starring Clint Eastwood.
This was my first watch on Bluray and it presents the movie in probably as good a quality as you’ll ever see it. Certainly leaps and bounds ahead of all the TV viewings I’ve ever watched of it.
The DTS soundtrack is wondrous, with Ennio Morricone’s score lighting up my surround system.
The print isn’t perfect, but I think the Bluray transfer does a damned good job of it.
Can’t wait to watch the other two in the trilogy!
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