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Per un pugno di dollari (1964)

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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for A Fistful of Dollars can be found at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058461/parentalguide.

A Fistful of Dollars/Per un Pugno di Dollari is an unofficial remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961), which Kurosawa has admitted to basing on The Glass Key (1947), an adaptation of the 1931 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961]. It is the first in a series of three movies known as "The Dollar Trilogy." A Fistful of Dollars is followed by For a Few Dollars More [Per qualche dollaro in più] (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966).

Those who have seen all three movies say that it's not important to watch them in order considering that none of them follow the same story or include the same characters, other than Clint Eastwood. The only other similiarities would include the direction and the music.

All Italian films were shot MOS (without sound) and everything the guns, the horses, the actors, were added post production.