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Description of this Poster 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 For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
A cornerstone of the spaghetti western, it is wrongly considered the first film of the genre: several westerns of this type had already been released in Europe before 1964, but without the same success. An undeclared remake of Akira Kurosawa’s The Bodyguard (Yojimbo), A Fistful of Dollars reinvented the then-fading Western genre by redefining its archetypes. The soundtrack, which was also a huge hit on the record market, is famous for the whistled song, performed by maestro Alessandro Alessandroni.
To fool audiences into thinking the film was an American production, many members of the cast and crew 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 wrote the soundtrack under the pseudonym Dan Savio (but in some titles he is renamed Leo Nichols), while Gian Maria Volonté appears as John Wells.
Mexico, second half of the 19th century. Joe, a lonely and penniless American gunslinger, arrives on mule in the dreary Mexican border village of San Miguel. The first resident to meet him is bell ringer Juan De Dios, who, guessing his profession, reveals that he can become rich in this village if he manages not to get killed.
When he arrives at the village’s central square, three armed men mock his appearance and scare the mule by shooting it between the legs. Joe takes refuge in old Silvanito’s tavern and asks for a meal on credit. While he eats, the old innkeeper urges him to leave the town, which is ravaged by the feud between two rival families who are getting rich from smuggling: the Baxters, arms dealers, and the Rojos, three brothers who smuggle alcohol. 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 off 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 treacherous Esteban.
Joe settles in at Silvanito’s tavern. A few days later, a Mexican army squadron passes through the village. The gunman and the tavern keeper secretly follow the soldiers and witness their encounter with a U.S. army squadron on the banks of the Rio Bravo. But the encounter 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 escorting the Mexican soldiers and organize a confrontation between the two sides with no survivors.
Joe, feigning ignorance of the incident, meets Ramón at 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 same evening, he and Silvanito retrieve two Mexican soldiers killed at the river and take them to the cemetery outside the city. Then, to fuel the feud, he tells both families, in exchange for money, that two surviving soldiers have taken refuge in the cemetery.
While the families are shooting at each other outside the cemetery, Joe sneaks into the Rojo warehouse where he finds the army’s money. But someone enters the warehouse and, fearing it might be a Rojo, knocks him unconscious. In reality, it is Marisol, the young woman who is with Ramón.
Joe takes the unconscious young woman to Consuelo Baxter’s house, 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 arranged. On this occasion, Silvanito explains to Joe that Marisol is obliged to stay with Ramón in exchange for the safety of her husband and little boy Jesús.
Joe returns to the Rojos’ house during 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, a gunman is a dead man.”
Soon after, Ramón leaves with some men, leaving Joe and the rest of the family to celebrate. Later, feigning drunkenness, Joe leaves the party. As soon as the Rojos lose sight of him, he frees Marisol, reunites her with her husband and child, gives them money, and invites them to leave this damned country.
He then returns to the Rojos’ house, but finds Ramón waiting for him, 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 stopped 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 is one last house to search: the Baxter house. The Rojos set fire to it, and the family members are killed one by one as they escape the smoke and flames. Despite an unconditional surrender, John Baxter, Antonio, and Consuelo are also barbarically killed.
During the Baxter massacre, Joe, who had hidden in an empty coffin, is carried out of the village by Piripero. Taking refuge in an abandoned mine, aided by Silvanito, Joe nurses his wounds, regains his strength, and plots his revenge.
Unfortunately, one day, the Rojos intercept Silvanito as he prepares to leave the country with supplies. Piripero then goes to the American, who not only informs him of the incident, but also returns 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 again. 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, Joe approaches and reveals that under his poncho he is hiding a metal plate bearing the marks of the seven shots near his heart.
Tense moments pass, at the end of which Joe draws his weapon and kills all the remaining Rojos, including Don Benito, but spares Ramón, whose rifle he simply drops to the ground. Then, after freeing Silvanito, he challenges Ramón to verify his words that a man armed with a pistol would stand no chance against a man armed with a rifle. He throws his Colt to the ground and invites his rival to take his weapon and fire. Both men bend to the ground, pick up their weapons, and charge, but Joe is the fastest and hits Ramón. The Mexican tries to get up but dies after a few moments. The Rojo family and its 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 ducked when Joe arrived to surprise him from behind, as he had always wanted. With the last enemy killed, Joe says goodbye to Silvanito and Piripero, leaving San Miguel free of its violent masters.