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Genres:
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Action /
Western
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Release:
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Director:
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Sergio Leone
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Actors:
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Aldo Sambrell,
Benito Stefanelli,
Gian Maria Volontè,
Margarita Lozano,
Sieghardt Rupp,
Daniel Martín,
Wolfgang Lukschy,
Joseph Egger,
Clint Eastwood,
Marianne Koch,
Mario Brega
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)57.5
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Plot Summary:
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An anonymous, but exact man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. In preference to of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the fetters schemes to play the two sides disappointing each other, getting valuable in the bargain.
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BRILLIANT
Clint Eastwood played the ultra-cool, amoral hero 'Man With No Name'..A cynical bounty hunter whose impassivity 'is' his main attraction (when he watches a father & child being tormented & does not intervene and when he realizes that he has punched a 'woman' in the face)..a ruthless gunfighter who leaves us impressed by his exceptionally swift draw ('When a man with a 45 meets a man with a rifle..you said the man with the pistol is a dead man..Let's see if that is true!')..A suspicious stranger dressed in poncho & flat brown sombrero with a short thin cigarillo - acted as a sort of pendant to those ice-cold green eyes - (when he throws back his woolen serape to reveal a rectangular piece of metal covering his chest..He also reveals that he ha...
The meaning of Cool
Eastwood has to be one of the coolest heroes in this sixties icon of the screen. We know nothing about him except that he's the good guy. Dialogue is fine but the dubbed soundtrack is difficult to make out at times - and oddly enough this just adds to the sense of otherness the film provides. If you only watch one western - this could be it.
View from a coffin lid
From the opening James Union like, almost Warholian subhead credits, to the mysterious stranger riding on the in back of surreptitiously of a slight mule into the pint-sized Mexican town of San Miguel, Sergio Leone begins to signal his significant ‘market in the saddle’ away from the big valorous West of Shane and John Ford. Opening of a trilogy (In search a Few Dollars More and The Valid, the Deleterious, and the Ugly, followed in 1965 and 1966, separately), this Italian-German-Spanish co-fabrication not only set a untrodden traditional on Spaghetti Westerns, but aside changing the face of a genus, has ultimately influenced nearly every Western produced since from Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch to John Hillcoat’sThe Proposition.
By choosing to replace a crusty samura...
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