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Description of this Poster For A Fistful Of Dollars
A Fistful of Dollars is a 1964 film, the first in the so-called Dollars trilogy, directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, which also includes A Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966).
The cornerstone of the spaghetti western, it is wrongly considered the first film of its kind: several westerns of this type had already been released in Europe before 1964, but without enjoying the same success. Undeclared remake of Akira Kurosawa's Bodyguard (Yojimbo), A Fistful of Dollars reinvented the western genre, then in decline, by redefining its archetypes The original soundtrack, which also enjoyed great success on the market of the disc, is famous for the whistled song, performed by maestro Alessandro Alessandroni.
To make audiences believe that the film was an American production, many crew and cast members gave themselves false English names: Sergio Leone used the name Bob Robertson[2][3] (in memory of his father Vincenzo, known by his stage name Roberto Roberti), Ennio Morricone signed the soundtrack under the pseudonym Dan Savio (but in some titles he is renamed Leo Nichols), while Gian Maria Volonté appears under the name by John Wells.
Mexico, second half of the 19th century. Joe, a lonely and penniless American gunslinger, arrives on the back of a mule in the dreary Mexican border village of San Miguel. The first inhabitant to meet him is the bell ringer Juan De Dios, who, guessing his profession, reveals to him that he can become rich in this village if he manages not to be killed.
When he arrives at the central square of the village, three armed men make fun of his appearance and scare the mule by shooting him between the legs. Joe takes refuge in old Silvanito's tavern and asks for a meal on credit. While he eats, the old innkeeper strongly advises him to leave the town, ravaged by the feud between two rival families who enrich themselves through smuggling: the Baxters, arms traffickers, and the Rojos, three brothers who alcohol smuggling. The days in San Miguel are punctuated by shootings and murders, so much so that the bellhop and the gravedigger Piripero are busy with each other's funerals.
Joe returns to the brawlers who shot his mule, henchmen of the Baxters, and cools them down by showing his skill with weapons. He thus obtains a commitment from Don Benito Rojo for 100 dollars, arousing the indignation of his brother, the perfidious Esteban.
Joe settles in at Silvanito's tavern. A few days later, a squadron of the Mexican army passed through the village. The shooter and the tavern keeper secretly follow the soldiers and witness their meeting with a squadron of the American army on the banks of the Rio Bravo. But the meeting ends tragically: the Americans massacre the Mexicans. In reality, the real American soldiers were exterminated earlier, and in their place are Rojo men, led by Ramón, the third and most dangerous of the three brothers. The Rojos seize the money which escorts the Mexican soldiers and organize a confrontation without survivors between the two camps.
Joe, pretending to ignore the incident, meets Ramón in the Rojos house, but the latter announces that he will invite the Baxters to dinner to establish a truce with them. Joe, disappointed, returns the engagement and leaves the family.
That evening, he and Silvanito picked up two Mexican soldiers killed at the river and took them to the cemetery outside the city. Then, to fuel the quarrel, he tells the two families, in exchange for money, that two surviving soldiers have taken refuge in the cemetery.
While the families shoot each other outside the cemetery, Joe sneaks into the Rojo's warehouse where he finds the army's money. But someone enters the warehouse and, fearing that it is a Rojo, knocks him out with a punch. In reality, it is Marisol, the young woman who is with Ramón.
Joe takes the unconscious young woman to Consuelo Baxter, just as her husband John returns, telling her that the Rojos have taken their son Antonio prisoner in the cemetery.
The next day, in a tense atmosphere, the exchange of Antonio for Marisol is organized. On this occasion, Silvanito explains to Joe that Marisol is obliged to stay with Ramón in exchange for the safety of her husband and her little boy Jesús.
Joe returns to the Rojos' house at a party and witnesses a demonstration of Ramón's skill with his favorite weapon, a Winchester rifle. Ramón explains to Joe that the surest way to kill a man is to hit him in the heart with a rifle, and that "when a gunman meets a gunman, the gunman is a dead man."
Soon after, Ramón leaves with a few men, leaving Joe and the rest of the family to party. Later, pretending to be drunk, Joe leaves the party. As soon as the Rojos lose sight of him, he frees Marisol, makes her find her husband and child, gives them money and invites them to leave this damn country.
He then returns to the Rojos house, but there he finds Ramón waiting for him and who is certain of his involvement in Marisol's disappearance.
Joe is beaten to death by the Rojos, but refuses to talk. The beating is only temporarily halted to prevent him from dying, and he is locked in the warehouse. But Joe immediately gets rid of his guards, sets fire to the warehouse and manages to escape.
Ramón organizes a merciless hunt. All the houses are ransacked, including the tavern, where Silvanito is mercilessly beaten. There remains one last house to search, that of the Baxters. The Rojos set it on fire and the family members were killed one by one as they escaped the smoke and flames. Despite an unconditional surrender, John Baxter, Antonio and Consuelo were also barbarically killed.
During the Baxter massacre, Joe, who had been hiding in an empty coffin, is transported out of the village by Piripero. Taking refuge in an abandoned mine, helped by Silvanito, Joe treats his wounds, regains his strength and prepares his revenge.
Unfortunately, one day, the Rojos intercept Silvanito as he prepares to leave the country with supplies. Piripero then went to the American, who not only informed him of the incident, but also returned his rifle and dynamite.
As the Rojos torture Silvanito in front of the tavern, a thunderous explosion occurs and fills the place with smoke. As soon as the smoke clears, Joe appears and orders the Rojos to release old Silvanito. In response, Ramón shoots him in the heart. Joe falls, but gets up. Ramón shoots him again, but Joe gets up again and approaches, daring him to shoot him in the heart. Ramón fires the entire magazine of his rifle at Joe and, once the last shot is fired without Joe dying, the latter approaches and shows that under his poncho he hides a metal plate bearing the marks of the seven shots near his heart.
Tensile moments ensue, at the end of which Joe draws his gun and kills all the remaining Rojos, including Don Benito, but sparing Ramón, whose rifle he simply drops to the ground. Then, after freeing Silvanito, he challenges Ramón to verify his words that a man with a pistol would have no chance against a man with a rifle. He throws his colt on the ground and invites his rival to take his weapon and shoot. Both men duck to the ground, pick up their weapons and charge, but Joe is the quickest and hits Ramón. The Mexican tries to get up but dies after a few moments. The Rojo family and their henchmen are exterminated. Or so it seems. Joe hears a gunshot behind him: he turns around and sees Silvanito armed with a double-barreled shotgun, while Esteban Rojo is shot through a window. The latter had stooped down when Joe arrived to surprise him from behind, as he had always wanted. The last enemy killed, Joe bids farewell to Silvanito and Piripero, leaving San Miguel free of its violent masters.
