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A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
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A stranger treats two rival powers in a border town as competing opportunities, making the familiar gunfighter seem mercenary before he becomes heroic. Sergio Leone's Italian-led production finds enormous tension in faces, distance and a few decisive movements. Start here for a lean route into the spaghetti western, with cruelty beneath the dry humour.
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About A Fistful of Dollars
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.