A film tie-in featuring artwork from the film and a cover version by Ennio Morricone was released in Europe, though the other tracks on the album were soundtracks from A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.

The most popular Spaghetti Westerns were those of Sergio Leone, whose Dollars Trilogy ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ), featuring Clint Eastwood and scores by Ennio Morricone, came to define the genre along with Once Upon a Time in the West.

The best-known Spaghetti westerns were directed by Sergio Leone and scored by Ennio Morricone: the " Dollars Trilogy " ( A Fistful of Dollars ( 1964 ), For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 )) and Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ).

Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars and the following films in his Dollars trilogy created the Spaghetti Western as a novel kind of Western.

Furthermore, by far the most commercially successful of this lot was Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars whose innovations in cinematic style, music acting and story decided the future for the genre.

When the typically low budget production A Fistful of Dollars turned into a remarkable box office success, the industry eagerly lapped up its innovations.

There would be a flamboyant Mexican bandit ( Gian Maria Volonté from A Fistful of Dollars, otherwise Tomas Milian or most often Fernando Sancho ) and a grumpy old man – more often than not an undertaker, to serve as sidekick for the hero.

The terror of the villains against their defenseless victims became just as ruthless as in A Fistful of Dollars, or more, and their brutalization of the hero when his treachery is disclosed became just as merciless, or more – just like the cunning used to secure the latter's retribution.

For example, already in Sergio Corbucci's Minnesota Clay ( 1964 ) that appeared only two months after A Fistful of Dollars, you find an American style " tragic gunfighter " hero confronting two evil gangs, one Mexican and one Anglo, and ( just as in A Fistful of Dollars ) the leader of the latter is also the town sheriff.

Spaghetti Westerns also began featuring a pair of different heroes – In Leone's film Eastwood's character is an unshaven bounty hunter dressed similarly to his character in A Fistful of Dollars who enters an unstable partnership with Mortimer, an older bounty killer who uses more sophisticated weaponry and wears a suit ( Lee van Cleef ).

mainly appear before Fistful of Dollars had put its mark on the genre.

It is acknowledged that the story of Fistful of Dollars closely resembles Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo.

Though the Spaghetti Westerns from Fistful of Dollars and on featured larger amounts of violence and killings compared to earlier American Western films, they generally shared the parental genre's restricted attitude toward explicit sexuality.

The influence of these films is most apparent in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars ( 1964 ) starring Clint Eastwood and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing ( 1996 ).

** A Fistful of Dollars, the first significant " spaghetti Western " film, is released in the United States.

His movies include The Last Days of Pompeii, The Colossus of Rhodes, the Dollars Trilogy ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ), Once Upon a Time in the West, Duck, You Sucker!

At the 2007 Festival Seth Gordon's premiere The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters became another sought after documentary and was acquired by New Line Cinema.

Over the next five years they became one of the hardest-gigging bands on the road and released four albums: " Out Of Their Skulls " ( 1977 ), " Skull Wars " ( 1978 ), " Happy Birthday Rock ' n ' Roll " ( 1979 ) and the ten-inch " A Fistful Of Dubloons " ( 1981 ).

In 1964, Yojimbo was remade as A Fistful of Dollars, a spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first appearance as the Man with No Name.

A Fistful of Dollars was at first intended by Leone to reinvent the western genre in Italy.

He is the bassist for the thrash metal band Nuclear Assault and was a founding member of Anthrax with Scott Ian, ( Lilker was then playing lead guitar ) and recorded bass guitar and co-wrote on their first album, Fistful of Metal.

In 2004 they released their first album for Candlelight Records — Fistful of Hate.

* In 2005 it won " Best European Political Weblog " in the first Satin Pajamas competition held by A Fistful of Euros.

In 1993, her novel, Fistful of Colours, was awarded the first Singapore Literature Prize.

He provides the voice of Ash in the three games based on the Evil Dead film series: Evil Dead: Hail to the King, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick and Evil Dead: Regeneration.

The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

Leone had asked Wallach to play a role in his upcoming film, A Fistful of Dynamite, but the actor explained he had a scheduling conflict.

His film A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un Pugno di Dollari, 1964 ) was based upon Akira Kurosawa's Edo-era samurai adventure Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

This is particularly true for films that are remade from films produced in another language, such as: Point of No Return ( from the French Nikita ), Vanilla Sky ( from the Spanish Abre los ojos ), The Magnificent Seven ( from the Japanese Seven Samurai ), A Fistful of Dollars ( from the Japanese Yojimbo ), The Departed ( from Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs ), and Let Me In ( from the Swedish film Let the Right One In or Låt den rätte komma in ).

A Fistful of Dollars () is a 1964 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, alongside Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joseph Egger.

British critic Sir Christopher Frayling identifies three principal sources for A Fistful of Dollars: " Partly derived from Kurosawa's samurai film Yojimbo, partly from Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest ( 1929 ), but most of all from Carlo Goldoni's eighteenth-century play Servant of Two Masters.

Like many Hong Kong movies of the era, it also includes samples from western movie scores, including A Fistful Of Dollars, You Only Live Twice ( film ), The Spy Who Loved Me ( film ), and even the Death Star explosion moment from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

* A Fistful of Dollars, film novelization by Frank Chandler

Prior to signing on to Fistful, Eastwood had seen Kurosawa's film and was impressed by the character.

The film ’ s longest segment spoofs early kung-fu films, primarily Enter the Dragon ; its title, A Fistful of Yen, refers to A Fistful of Dollars.

(), also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time … the Revolution, is a 1971 Zapata Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn.

In part because of this, United Artists reissued the film under the new name of A Fistful of Dynamite, meant to recall the notoriety of A Fistful of Dollars.

He is best known for playing Loo in the 1977 comedy The Kentucky Fried Movie's " A Fistful of Yen " segment, the interpreter Cowboy in the 1978 Vietnam War film Go Tell the Spartans, the erudite caveman Nook in the cult 1981 comedy Caveman, Suki in the 1982 B movie Megaforce, Tony in the 1983 miniseries V, and Harry Callahan's partner Inspector Al Quan in the fifth " Dirty Harry " film The Dead Pool, which was his most significant role.

He rose to fame for playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ) during the late 1960s, and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films ( Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool ) throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

That material had formed the basis for Kurasawa's Yojimbo, which in turn was the basis for Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un pugno di dollari ), countless others have used its premise since.

He appeared in several Italian films, including Hands Over the City ( 1963 ) and Lucky Luciano ( 1974 ) ( both Francesco Rosi's ), and also Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite ( 1971 ).

Margheriti also collaborated on the special effects in two Italian cult films which he did not direct, Sergio Leone's " Fistful of Dynamite " ( 1971 ) and Aldo Lado's " The Humanoid " ( 1979 ).

The Magnificent Seven was based on Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa whose Yojimbo ( The Bodyguard ) was the inspiration ( and later, litigation ) behind a Leone's A Fistful of Dollars.

Ennio Morricone composed the film's soundtrack as he did for A Fistful of Dollars: before production had started, under Leone's explicit direction.

Harrison turned down Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and recommended Clint Eastwood for the role.

Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Pervirella, and many others.

* The film shares some common scenes ( for example, the beating scene ) with Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, which was in turn inspired by Kurosawa's Yojimbo.

Debuting with director Dino Risi, he then played some minor roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti western movies: A Fistful of Dollars, as Chico ; For a Few Dollars More, as Niño ; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as Corporal Wallace ; and also as a gangster in Once Upon a Time in America.