The shoot-out that ends Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western " Dollars " trilogy is a notable example of how these elements work together to produce an effect: The shot selection goes from very wide to very close and tense ; the length of shots decreases as the sequence progresses towards its end ; the music builds.

His career revival began when the young Italian director Sergio Leone boldly cast Van Cleef, whose career was still in the doldrums, as one of the two protagonists, alongside Clint Eastwood, in Leone's second western, For a Few Dollars More.

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.

Likewise, after 1965 when Leone's second Western For a Few Dollars More brought a still larger box office bonanza, bounty killer suddenly became the choice profession of Spaghetti Western heroes in films like Arizona Colt, Vengeance is Mine, 10. 000 Dollars Blood Money, The Ugly Ones, Cry for Revenge, Any Gun Can Play.

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 ).

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 ).

Yojimbo was also the origin of the " Man with No Name " trend which included Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly both also starring Clint Eastwood, and arguably continued through his 1968 opus Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards.

Leone's next two films – For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) – completed what has come to be known as the Man with No Name trilogy ( a. k. a. the Dollars Trilogy ), with each film being more financially successful and more technically accomplished than its predecessor.

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.

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.

Other movies that may be considered archetypes of the sub-genre include The Searchers with John Wayne, The Magnificent Seven, Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, The Shootist with John Wayne, and How the West was Won.

A Fistful of Dollars became the first film to exhibit Leone's famously distinctive style of visual direction.

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

in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy.

The man with no name () is a stock character in Western films, but the term usually applies specifically to the character played by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's " Dollars Trilogy.

Some of the locations used previously featured in Leone's Dollar Trilogy films ; for example, the Almería Railway Station, used for the train sequence in For a Few Dollars More, returns in this film as Mesa Verde's station.

With his roles in Leone's films, Van Cleef became a major star of Spaghetti Westerns, playing central roles in films such as Death Rides a Horse, Day of Anger, The Big Gundown and The Sabata Trilogy.

* Clint Saguaro, a cactus-man modeled after Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name character from Sergio Leone's Trilogy,

Other successful projects backed in this period included Blake Edwards's Pink Panther series, which began in 1964, and Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, which made a star of Clint Eastwood.

* Sir Milton Margai, Sierra Leone's first prime minister from 1961 to 1964.

The party dominated Sierra Leone's politics from it foundation in 1951 to 1967, When it lost the 1967 Sierra Leone parliamentary election to then main opposition All People's Congress ( APC ), lead by Siaka Stevens.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

Sir Albert's leadership was briefly challenged by Sierra Leone's Foreign Minister John Karefa-Smart, who questioned Sir Albert's succession to the SLPP leadership position.

The UN disarmament and rehabilitation program for Sierra Leone's fighters was completed in February 2004, by which time more 70, 000 former combatants had been helped.

UN forces returned primary responsibility for security in the area around the capital to Sierra Leone's police and armed forces in September 2004 ; it was the last part of the country to be turned over.

The RSLN was an arm of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces that is responsible sea patrol of Sierra Leone's territorial waters.

The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films.

" Frayling and other film scholars such as Bondanella argue that this revisionism was the key to Leone's success and, to some degree, to that of the spaghetti Western genre as a whole.

Leone's film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawa's film was in turn probably based on the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest ( 1929 ).

Leone's characters were, in contrast, more ' realistic ' and complex: usually ' lone wolves ' in their behavior ; they rarely shaved, looked dirty and sweated profusely, and there was a strong suggestion of criminal behavior.

It is speculated to have been Leone's last western and was to have starred Mickey Rourke and Richard Gere as the two main leads.

Leone's distinctive cinematography style was widely acclaimed, even by critics who disparaged the acting in the film.

* Maximilian " Max " Bercovicz, the gangster played by James Woods in Sergio Leone's opus Once Upon A Time In America was inspired by Meyer Lansky.

The nation held its first general elections on May 27, 1962 and Margai was elected Sierra Leone's first Prime Minister by a landslide.

Leone's intent was to take the stock conventions of the American Westerns of John Ford, Howard Hawks and others, and rework them in an ironic fashion, essentially reversing their intended meaning in their original sources to create a darker connotation.

In addition, some of the early epic westerns, such as The Magnificent Seven and Leone's spaghetti westerns, were influenced by Akira Kurosawa's samurai films, such as Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Sanjuro.

Heavily influenced by Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns and Japanese samurai films, Cheh brought elements from these movies into his own work, revolutionizing Hong Kong filmmaking.

Stander stayed in Europe and eventually settled in Rome, where he appeared in many spaghetti Westerns, most notably playing a bartender named Max in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.

Another notable part was as a gunslinger in the opening sequence of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ); after this, he appeared in several other spaghetti Westerns of lesser quality.

The movie had a relatively positive reception from movie critics, often being compared to Sergio Leone's stylish spaghetti westerns.

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.