A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations
Gian Maria Volontè
- Ramón Rojo
- (Italian, English version)
- (as John Wells, Johnny Wels)
Wolfgang Lukschy
- John Baxter
- (as W. Lukschy)
Sieghardt Rupp
- Esteban Rojo
- (as S. Rupp)
Joseph Egger
- Piripero
- (as Joe Edger)
José Calvo
- Silvanito
- (as Jose Calvo)
Margarita Lozano
- Consuelo Baxter
- (as Margherita Lozano)
Daniel Martín
- Julián
- (as Daniel Martin)
Benito Stefanelli
- Rubio
- (as Benny Reeves)
Mario Brega
- Chico
- (as Richard Stuyvesant)
Bruno Carotenuto
- Antonio Baxter
- (as Carol Brown)
Aldo Sambrell
- Rojo gang member
- (as Aldo Sambreli)
Raf Baldassarre
- Juan De Dios
- (uncredited)
Luis Barboo
- Baxter Gunman 2
- (uncredited)
Frank Braña
- Baxter Gang Member
- (uncredited)
José Canalejas
- Rojo Gang Member
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSergio Leone warmed to Clint Eastwood very quickly and joked that he had only two expressions: with hat or without hat.
- GoofsWhen the Rojo gang ambush the Mexican army unit the gun Ramon uses to kill all the troops is a Mitrailleuse volley gun. Each barrel had to be laboriously loaded by hand before all barrels were fired together in a single volley. However, the film shows the volley gun being used as a form of machine gun. The only machine gun around at the time was the hand-cranked Gatling gun which the soundtrack also seems to depict.
A volley gun could fire each round individually using a hand crank. However, Ramon clearly has both hands on the (incorrect) twin grips at all times.
- Alternate versionsThe original British theatrical release had about 4 minutes cut by the BBFC. Many closeup shots of bloodied faces and bodies (including the body of Chico) were removed, as well as a shot of Ramon dripping blood from his mouth. The main cuts, however, were to the beating up of Eastwood, which lost a hand stomping scene, and extensive cuts to the assault on the Baxters' house which was cut to shorten the overall sequence by removing all shots of men on fire, and the shooting of Consuela Baxter. (The cut version removes the shot of her falling backwards.) The 1999 MGM video and DVD releases are fully uncut and the same as the USA DVD release.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Man with No Name (1977)
Featured review
"Yojimbo" Revisited - The Beginning of the Spaghetti Westerns
A drifter gunman (Clint Eastwood) arrives in the Mexican village of San Miguel in the border of United States of America, and befriends the owner of the local bar Silvanito (Jose Calvo). The stranger discovers that the town is dominated by two gangster lords: John Baxter (W. Lukschy) and the cruel Ramón Rojo (Gian Maria Volontè a.k.a. John Wells). When the stranger kills four men of the Baxter's gang, he is hired by Ramón's brother Esteban Rojo (S. Rupp) to join their gang. However, the stranger plots a scheme working for both sides and playing one side against the other.
"Per un Pugno di Dollari" is a milestone in the history of the cinema, since the genre of "Spaghetti Westerns" didn't really exist previous to this movie. Sergio Leone used the storyline of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo", replacing the samurai without a master ("ronin") Sanjuro Kuwabatake performed by Toshirô Mifune and the scenario of the rural Japanese town in Nineteenth Century by the stranger without a name (Clint Eastwood) and a small Mexican town in the border of the Wild and Far West. The result is a magnificent and remarkable movie, and beginning of the trilogy of Clint Eastwood's character Joe, who proves that "a man with a rifle beats a man with .45", completed by "Per Qualche Dollaro in Più" and "Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo", . My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Por um Punhado de Dólares" ("For a Fistful of Dollars")
"Per un Pugno di Dollari" is a milestone in the history of the cinema, since the genre of "Spaghetti Westerns" didn't really exist previous to this movie. Sergio Leone used the storyline of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo", replacing the samurai without a master ("ronin") Sanjuro Kuwabatake performed by Toshirô Mifune and the scenario of the rural Japanese town in Nineteenth Century by the stranger without a name (Clint Eastwood) and a small Mexican town in the border of the Wild and Far West. The result is a magnificent and remarkable movie, and beginning of the trilogy of Clint Eastwood's character Joe, who proves that "a man with a rifle beats a man with .45", completed by "Per Qualche Dollaro in Più" and "Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo", . My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Por um Punhado de Dólares" ("For a Fistful of Dollars")
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Box office
- Budget
- $200,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,500,000
- Gross worldwide
- $14,516,248
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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