A Fistful of Dollars


A Fistful of Dollars Italian Per un pugno di dollari , lit. For a Fistful of Dollars, titled onscreen as Fistful of Dollars, is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volont, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, Jos Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joseph Egger.

A stranger arrives at the little Mexican border town of San Miguel. Silvanito, the towns innkeeper, tells the Stranger about a feud between two families vying to gain control of the town on the one side, the Rojo brothers Don Miguel, Esteban and Ramn on the other, the family of the town sheriff, John Baxter. The Stranger decides to play each family against the other in order to make money, and proves his speed and accuracy with his gun to both sides by shooting the four men who teased him as he entered town with ease.The Stranger seizes his opportunity when he sees the Rojos massacre a detachment of Mexican soldiers who were escorting a shipment of gold. The Stranger takes two of the dead bodies to a nearby cemetery and sells information to both sides, saying that two Mexican soldiers survived the attack. Both sides race to the cemetery, the Baxters to get the survivors to testify against the Rojos, the Rojos to silence them. The factions engage in a gunfight, with Ramn managing to kill the survivors and Esteban capturing John Baxters son, Antonio. ........

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