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A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. And he plays the two bands at the same time.
March 21, 1931 in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain
8 May 1941, Rome, Lazio, Italy
2 February 1905, Aspe, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
9 April 1933, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
19 October 1905, Berlin, Germany
20 March 1927, Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
1921
August 11, 1920 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
4 April 1938, Acquaro, Calabria, Italy
15 August 1928, Camberwell, London, England, UK
February 14, 1925 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
31 May 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
September 8, 1919 in Madrid, Spain
14 September 1926, Valencia, Spain
27 April 1925, Tacoma, Washington, USA
January 17, 1932 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
14 June 1931, Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria
14 July 1926, West Irvine, Kentucky, USA
24 February 1934, Pola de Allande, Asturias, Spain
March 21, 1918 in Hollywood, California, USA
12 May 1935, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
23 February 1931, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2 September 1928, Rome, Lazio, Italy
April 10, 1935 in Madrid, Spain
14 February 1931, Tetuan, Spain
November 8, 1904 in Ancona, Marche, Italy
3 March 1916, Madrid, Spain
5 March 1923, Rome, Lazio, Italy
19 August 1931, Munich, Germany
May 12, 2017
... this was a new kind of western: cynical, violent, stylish, and austere, playing out in a landscape of endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen.
June 22, 2006
From Clint Eastwood's iconic performance to Ennio Morricone's unforgettable (and much-parodied) musical score, A Fistful of Dollars (****) took the western down trails it had never explored.
January 26, 2006
Though far less operatic and satisfying than Leone's later work, his first spaghetti Western with Eastwood still looks stylish, if a little rough at the edges.
May 23, 2011
Once in a great while a western comes along that breaks new ground and becomes a classic of the genre.
May 09, 2005
Egregiously synthetic but engrossingly morbid, violent film.
December 14, 2010
Guns galore in intro "spaghetti Western" serving.
July 12, 2010
What Leone does with this movie is boil the Western down to its very essence, removing all the extraneous parts.
August 20, 2011
The moment where Sergio Leone, anonymous costume drama hack turned into Sergio Leone, keen stylist and poet of cruelty.
December 29, 2011
Westerns were never the same after Sergio Leone.
March 26, 2009
This is a hard-hitting item, ably directed, splendidly lensed, neatly acted, which has all the ingredients wanted by action fans and then some.
January 01, 2000
Really little more than a series of loosely connected shoot-outs -- but, as Sergio Leone proved, there can be a lot of fun in that.
