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The firearm used by RamÃ³n Rojo (Gian Maria VolontÃ¨) was a Winchester Model 94. It has the seri [...]	D
The Italian name, "Per un pugno di dollari", translates to "For a Bunch of Dollars" in English, and [...]	D
When Joe (Clint Eastwood) is "drunk" and being carried up to his room, he is singing "Sweet Betsy fr [...]	D
Producer Alberto Grimaldi realized that shooting a Western in Spain was an absolute no-brainer as it [...]	D
The trailers and promotional material in the United States listed the title of this movie as "A Fist [...]	D
This was the first time that Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone worked together. The producer [...]	D
German born Marianne Koch played the role of Marisol; she had interrupted her medical studies to ent [...]	D
In a rather unusual move, a lot of Ennio Morricone's score was composed before this movie was shot.	D
director Sergio Leone's English was limited, and his direction of Clint Eastwood usually amounted to [...]	D
There weren't many trees in that part of Spain (which was standing in for Mexico) so per Clint Eastw [...]	D
After considering Henry Fonda, writer and director Sergio Leone offered the role of the Man With No [...]	D
The theme song was originally composed by Ennio Morricone as a lullaby. Sergio Leone insisted that h [...]	D
Now Playing Podcast reviewed A Fistful of Dollars. This film received three "recommends".	D
Clint Eastwood's contract for Gli uomini della prateria (1959) prohibited him from making movies in [...]	D
According to "Once Upon a Time in the Italian West" by Howard Hughes, Sergio Leone spotted a tree on [...]	D
Gian Maria VolontÃ¨ didn't speak English at all, so was dubbed in this movie. However, he was cont [...]	D
Sergio Leone warmed to Clint Eastwood very quickly and joked that he had only two expressions: with [...]	D
As there were no replacement props, Clint Eastwood made a point of taking his costume home with him [...]	D
This movie was shot in eight weeks.	D
Ennio Morricone's score was so popular that it became Morricone's first soundtrack album to be relea [...]	D
Ennio Morricones score stands out from the genres usual music as evident right from the start. The t [...]	D
The gunbelt and the pistol grips were borrowed by Clint Eastwood from the Rawhide (1959-1965) set, a [...]	D
According to Mickey Knox, Sergio Leone ran La sfida del samurai (1961) in a Moviola while constructi [...]	D
The English title of this movie shown in the opening credits is "Fistful of Dollars" without the "A" [...]	D
Clint Eastwood is a non-smoker, but found that the foul taste of the cigars put him in the right, su [...]	D
Filmed between seasons 6 and 7 of Rawhide.	D
During its 1969 American re-release, it was double-billed with Per qualche dollaro in piÃ¹ (1965).	D
Prior to this movie, in American movies, whenever a person was shot, one camera was focused on the s [...]	D
While cursing the Rojos for murdering her family, Consuelo yells at RamÃ³n "May you and your broth [...]	D
Nino del Arco (JesÃºs, Marisol's son) said in an interview that Mario Brega (Chico) actually scare [...]	D
Rory Calhoun was considered for the lead in "A Fistfull of Dollars" before Clint Eastwood was cast. [...]	D
A whopping 34% of Hollywood productions in 1950 were westerns, but by 1963 that percentage had dropp [...]	D
The only movie in the Dollars trilogy where the Man with No Name is the protagonist. In Per qualche [...]	D
Clint Eastwood helped in creating his character's distinctive visual style. He bought the black jean [...]	D
There were times when the production was almost shut down due to cash shortages, but Sergio Leone pr [...]	D
When this movie made its U.S. network television debut on "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" in February 1 [...]	D
One of the tidbits of trivia that has been well established is that Eastwood hated smoking, especial [...]	D
William Thomkins was Eastwood's double and plays a small role in the film as one of the Baxter gang [...]	D
Writer and director Sergio Leone was influenced immensely by The Rifleman (1958), which was very pop [...]	D
At 7 mins.) The man rides into town and it's a shift from the early location filming to an existing [...]	D
It becomes obvious that gun smuggler Baxter does not spend much time being sheriff in San Miguel. Wh [...]	D
The only one who calls Clint Eastwood's character "Joe" is Piripero the undertaker.	D
The United Artists English-language version has Clint Eastwood dubbing his own screen performance. A [...]	D
Rene Magritte was one of director Sergio Leones favorite artists.	D
This is one of the few movies that has been dubbed in the Navajo language.	D
This movie had its North American premiere at the Carlton Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, beginning its [...]	D
Sergio Leone wanted James Coburn for the film, but he was too busy.	D
At first, Clint Eastwood had some major disagreements with writer and director Sergio Leone, particu [...]	D
One of Quentin Tarantino's favorite movies.	D
Clint Eastwood was paid $15,000 for the film with a 6-week Spanish "holiday" included. Other actors [...]	D
Sergio Leone had wanted to use the traditional deguello theme from Rio Bravo (1959) and The Alamo (1 [...]	D
The shooting script opens with a map showing the divide between Mexico and the Southern United State [...]	D
When Clint Eastwood arrived on the set, he was struck by how little the Italian crew and writers kne [...]	D
Clint Eastwood recalled, "I've never been to Italy. I've never been to Spain. I've never been to Ger [...]	D
For one scene, Sergio Leone needed a tree for a hanging sequence and confiscated one from a local fa [...]	D
The film is very directly based on Akira Kurosawas Yojimbo (1961) Kurosawa had already acknowledged [...]	D
"Cause I knew someone like you once, there was no one there to help," is the only piece of moral mot [...]	D
The year of the setting is never specifically stated, but a date on a gravestone in the cemetery ind [...]	D
Since all of the footage was filmed silently, Clint Eastwood did not add his voice to the soundtrack [...]	D
Because this was an Italian/West German/Spanish co-production, there was a significant language barr [...]	D
Sergio Leone was so enraptured with Ennio Morricone's score that he would frequently let scenes run [...]	D
Having played a do-good hero in Gli uomini della prateria (1959) for several years, Clint Eastwood j [...]	D
Marianne Koch was a huge star in her native Germany so it was somewhat of a surprise when she agreed [...]	D
When this movie was released in U.K. cinemas in June 1967, a lot of the violence was censored despit [...]	D
Besides Clint Eastwood, Mario Brega, Benito Stefanelli, Aldo Sambrell, and Antonio Molino Rojo are t [...]	D
Most of the first European posters didn't show Clint Eastwood at all.	D
Clint Eastwood's asking price to appear in this movie was just $15,000.	D
The scene where Joe (Clint Eastwood) faces off with RamÃ³n (Gian Maria VolontÃ¨) using the boile [...]	D
While it's now hailed as a classic, the film initially received negative reviews from critics when r [...]	D
Leone had mentioned in an interview that the idea for Eastwood's poncho came from his vision of the [...]	D
Clint Eastwood is mouthing an Italian cigar called a Toscano "which is virtually unsmokable" despite [...]	D
The film was a co-production between Italy Spain and Germany. While thought by some to be the first [...]	D
Clint Eastwood described the set, "We had no electricity. We didn't have a trailer with a toilet. We [...]	D
The cross-cutting between the cemetery shootout and Eastwood's search for the gold finds an extra la [...]	D
Filmed in 1964, but not released in the U.S. until 1967 due to a copyright issue with Akira Kurosawa [...]	D
The film features numerous nods towards Christianity and Easter with the dinner gathering at 57 mins [...]	D
Clint Eastwood's character is called many things in the films of the Dollars Trilogy, but it is clea [...]	D
Clint Eastwood wore the same boots that he did in Gli uomini della prateria (1959).	D
Gian Maria VolontÃ¨ reportedly did not get along with Sergio Leone, who found VolontÃ©'s theatri [...]	D
Ennio Morricone was not the first choice to compose the film as they wanted Angelo Lavagnino but Leo [...]	D
(At around 32 mins) The bartender's laugh can be heard in the beginning of Ministry's song "You Know [...]	D
Entertainment Weekly ranked this Number Four on their "Guilty Pleasures: Testosterone Edition" list [...]	D
At 1hr 8mins.) The shot of a thug putting out his cigarette on Eastwood's hand was trimmed from many [...]	D
Most of the extras and bit players were recruited from the local Gypsy population.	D
When it was released in its home country of Italy, it was universally shunned by film critics and re [...]	D
Originally called "The Magnificent Stranger", the title wasn't changed to "A Fistful of Dollars" unt [...]	D
The original title was "The Magnificent Stranger" the shooting script also specified the two competi [...]	D
Passed by the British Board of Film Censors on March 3, 1967 with an "X" certificate, this movie pre [...]	D
Sergio Leone's first choice to play RamÃ³n Rojo was his friend Mimmo Palmara. Palmara passed on th [...]	D
Clint Eastwood's first leading role.	D
After this role, co-star Gian Maria VolontÃ¨ went on to an impressive film career, becoming one of [...]	D
This has been described as the first "spaghetti western" (Italian-made western), but when this movie [...]	D
Clint Eastwood's involvement in this movie was purely a stroke of luck. He was bored with his role a [...]	D
The title seen on the print shown on TCM only says "Fistful of Dollars", not "A Fistful of Dollars".	D
The Man with No Name is actually called Joe in this movie's dialogue (by Piripero) and in the closin [...]	D
This movie is a remake of La sfida del samurai (1961), which itself was based on the as yet unadapte [...]	D
Mario Brega appeared in all three of the Dollars trilogy, and in all the movies, his character meets [...]	D
Joe is accompanied by a swift descending scale on a recorder whenever he does something impressive/w [...]	D
Clint Eastwood's trademark squint was caused by the combination of the sun and high-wattage arc lamp [...]	D
The idea of putting Clint Eastwood on a scrawny horse came from I senza legge (1953), in which Audie [...]	D
Lee Marvin, Frank Wolff, Tony Kendall, Cliff Robertson, Steve Reeves, Horst Buchholz Henry Silva, Ro [...]	D
Joe's (Clint Eastwood's) gun is an 1873 Colt Single Action Army revolver with a five and a half inch [...]	D
The opening title credits were designed by Luigi Lardani and based in part on the popular James Bond [...]	D
Japnese director Akira Kurosawa was so irritated by Sergio Leone's refusal to admit that the film wa [...]	D

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