Clint Eastwood doesn't say much in A Fistful of Dollars. But then, he doesn't need to. The man with no name is more of a force of nature than a human, a drifter you really don't want to mess with. This is the movie that made Eastwood a star, and it's part one of a trilogy that many believe includes the best western movies ever made.
At heart it's an unapproved remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, but few of its viewers would have known that. For US audiences, this was the arrival of not just a charismatic movie star but of a stylish new kind of movie: dark, nihilistic and utterly thrilling. It also features one of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time. Not bad for a film with a budget of just $200,000.
