Description
Title: A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Genre: Western
Plot Synopsis
A taciturn American with a lightning-quick right hand rides into San Miguel, a sun-drenched border town wracked by greed, pride, and revenge. As the amoral stranger senses a chance for profit, he inserts himself into a deadly feud between two rival families, playing each side against the other for his own benefit—pitting the ruthless Rojos against the corrupt Baxters while tensions spiral into violence and treachery.
Cast and Crew
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Director: Sergio Leone
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Writers: Adriano Bolzoni, Mark Lowell, Víctor Andrés Catena, Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa (uncredited, original story Yojimbo)
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Cast:
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Clint Eastwood as Joe (the Man with No Name)
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Marianne Koch as Marisol (Consuelo Baxter)
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Gian Maria Volonté as Ramón Rojo
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Wolfgang Lukschy as John Baxter
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Joseph Egger as Piripero
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YouTube Trailer: A Fistful of Dollars | Trailer
IMDb Link: A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Reviews from Letterboxd
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liam f – ★★★★½
“if this is the film that Sergio Leone was able to make with a limited budget, you can just imagine what he could have made with a few dollars more” -
Kevin Clarke – ★★★½
“Like that movie RANGO but with Clint Eastwood instead of a gecko.” -
Will Menaker – ★★★★
“Should be called ‘The Man With No Game’, because he gets NO PUSSY!” -
onecalledstzy – ★★★★
“This movie, rocks.” -
magginator11 – ★★★★
“The story is not the best but I love the Cinematography and music. The visuals are great”
Meta Description:
A landmark spaghetti Western from Sergio Leone, following a cunning stranger who manipulates two rival gangs in a dusty border town for personal gain.
Title: For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Genre: Spaghetti Western
Plot Synopsis
Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to take down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.
Cast and Crew
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Director: Sergio Leone
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Writers: Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Luciano Vincenzoni
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Cast:
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Clint Eastwood as Monco
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Lee Van Cleef as Col. Douglas Mortimer
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Gian Maria Volontè as El Indio
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Mario Brega as Niño
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Luigi Pistilli as Groggy
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YouTube Trailer: For a Few Dollars More | Trailer
IMDb Link: For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Reviews from Letterboxd
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laird – ★★★★★
“The greatest meet cute in movie history is when Colonel Mortimer spots Monco in his spyglass looking back at him with binoculars, then later they shoot each other’s hats.” -
Nakul – ★★★★½
“Very careless of you old man.
Try this.
NOW we start.
[music by ennio morricone starts playing]
If this doesn’t give you goosebumps do you have a pulse?”
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Filipe Furtado – ★★★★
“Lee Van Cleef was 40 years old when he made For a Few Dollars More, but he acts like he is a ghost doomed to wander through west for some 100 years.” -
Gabriel Caires – ★★★★½
“Lee Van Cleef contracenando com Clint Eastwood é magnífico. A cena do primeiro encontro dos dois sempre cresce na minha mente.
Leone mais maduro em relação à obra que abre sua trilogia, mas sem perder a maestria criativa.”
(Translation: “Lee Van Cleef acting alongside Clint Eastwood is magnificent. The scene of their first meeting always grows in my mind.
Leone is more mature compared to the work that opens his trilogy, but without losing his creative mastery.”) -
Matis Le Gall – ★★★★
“Par rapport au 1 l’histoire est mieux mais azy la musique est pas aussi extraordinaire”
(Translation: “Compared to the first one, the story is better but come on, the music is not as extraordinary.”)
Meta Description:
Two bounty hunters form an uneasy alliance to track down a dangerous outlaw in Sergio Leone’s legendary Spaghetti Western classic.
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Genre: Western
Plot Synopsis
A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Cast and Crew
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Director: Sergio Leone
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Writers: Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone, Agenore Incrocci
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Cast:
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Clint Eastwood as Blondie
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Eli Wallach as Tuco
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Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes
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YouTube Trailer: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Trailer
IMDb Link: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Reviews from Letterboxd
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gizmo fan – ★★★★★
“this movie is cinematic s&x” -
Karsten – ★★★★½
“gotta be the best ending of all time” -
oleff – ★★★★½
“i cannot believe ennio morricone saw the scene of tuco running around the graveyard for 4 minutes and decided to make the best piece of score ever” -
sirboofsalot – ★★★★★
“i’m so glad clint eastwood invented acting” -
Gabriel Caires – ★★★★★
“Revendo a Trilogia dos Dólares e tive uma grande crescente no domínio de Sergio Leone pela encenação.
Elli Wallach é a peça perfeita para equilibrar humor e inventividade à narrativa, e Clint tem uma força magnética absurda, ganhando um destaque especial em cada uma de suas aparições.
Talvez um dos melhores duelos já feitos na história do cinema.”
(Translation: “Rewatching the Dollars Trilogy and I had a great increase in appreciation for Sergio Leone’s mastery of staging. Eli Wallach is the perfect piece to balance humor and inventiveness in the narrative, and Clint has an absurd magnetic strength, gaining special prominence in each of his appearances. Perhaps one of the best duels ever made in the history of cinema.”)
Meta Description:
A legendary spaghetti western where three gunslingers clash in a high-stakes race for hidden gold, featuring iconic performances and an unforgettable Ennio Morricone score.
Title: Hang ‘Em High (1968)
Genre: Western
Plot Synopsis
When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.
Cast and Crew
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Director: Ted Post
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Writers: Leonard Freeman, Mel Goldberg
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Cast:
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Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper
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Inger Stevens as Rachel Warren
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Pat Hingle as Judge Adam Fenton
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YouTube Trailer: Hang ‘Em High | Trailer
IMDb Link: Hang ‘Em High (1968)
Reviews from Letterboxd
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Ian West – ★★★☆☆
“Love the intro and opening credits, the at times inspired camerawork, and the great supporting cast. Despite the spaghetti influence this kinda feels like O’Douls compared to what was coming out of Italy at that time. There’s too much contemporary American western flavor here for my tastes and I think that bogs this thing down—Imagine a world where one of the Sergios made this.
Nitpicks aside, this is a solid western revenge jam, albeit with a bit too much filler for my tastes, but Ted Post does a decent job and this ended up being a nice cap off to my weekend—plus the title and poster are damn great.”
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🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝 – ★★★☆☆
“I don’t think I can recall seeing a western that is as interested in the actual law as Hang ‘em High is.
It’s one of those films that I certainly would have watched when I was younger with my dad (during one of our Clint Eastwood viewings) but I can’t imagine it would have been one of my favourites. That’s probably why I don’t remember much about it from back then. Ahh, it’s all starting to make sense now, isn’t it?
Perhaps the reason for that is because it is really quite procedural. It’s very different from the Eastwood westerns around that time, with a lot less shooting and general violence. These are replaced by plentiful arguments between Eastwood and…”
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Dale Ranger – ★★★½
“Jed Cooper: “Well, I don’t care how you slice it. Whether there’s nine men out in the plains with a dirty rope or a judge with his robe on in front of the American flag. Those boys are going to be just as dead as if they’d been lynched.”
Judge Fenton: “That’s right, Cooper, just as dead. But they won’t have been lynched. They would have been judged. And if you can’t see the difference, you’d better take off that star right now.”
After completing the Dollars trilogy this was the next Western that Clint Eastwood starred in.
A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper (Eastwood) and wrongly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him, and leave…”
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Joel Hilke – ★½☆☆☆
“Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist (Round 6)!… 19 of 35
–> Watch a movie from your least favorite genre
👀👀🎬📽️🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️👀👀
Here we go again… more bad Westerns in my cockeyed book than good ones. Looks like this one swings in the middle as far as ratings among the masses go so I don’t feel so guilty being bored out of my mind watching it.
Seemed very incongruous for some reason to see a clean-shaven Clint Eastwood as a lawman. Out for revenged, granted, for the hangin’ he took… a hangin’ that didn’t exactly stick. Leaving me wondering if this was a bloody revenge film or a ponderous argument for or against the law. I couldn’t pinpoint what it wanted to…”
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mikeygregz – ★★★☆☆
“Had me gripped, then it lost me. Some random romance plot line appeared that I didn’t care about. Let my man just get his vengance.”
Meta Description:
A 1968 Western about a wrongfully lynched man turned lawman, seeking justice against the vigilantes who tried to kill him.
