20th Century Fox Clint eastwood box set
A fistful of dollars:the first of the spaghetti westerns, a fistful of dollars became an instant cult hit and launched the film careers of italian writer-director sergio leone, and a little known american television actor named clint eastwood.
as the lean, cold-eyed cobra-quick gunfighter - clint became the first of the anti heroes.
a fistful of dollars is the western taken to the extreme - with unremitting violence, gritty realism, tongue-in-check humour and striking visuals.
for a few dollars more:a fistful of dollars had proven so successful that a sequel was inevitable.
the superbly scripted for a few dollars more tells the tale of a ruthless quest to track down the notorious bandit el indio, played by gian maria volonte, by an unforgettable alliance between ruthless gun-slingers eastwood and lee van cleef.
sergio leones direction is both violent and operatic and ennio morricones atmospheric score keeps the tension taut as the action moves from jail breaks and holds up to spectacular gun battles.
the good, the bad and the ugly:in the third of eastwoods spaghetti trilogy director sergio leone substitutes the upright puritan protestant ethos, so familiar in hollywood westerns, for a seedy cynical standpoint towards death and morality.
the complex plot of bloodshed and betrayal winds its way through the american civil war following a team of brutal bandits battling to unearth a fortune buried beneath an unmarked grave, and boasts in find ennio morricone score featuring a main theme that reached no.
1 in the worlds pop charts.
hangem high:they riddled him with bullets.
they strung him up.
they left him to die.
but they made two fatal mistakes, they hanged the wrong man.
and they didnt finish the job.
in his first american-made western, clint eastwood indelibly carves his niche as the quintessential tough guy - cool-headed, iron-willed and unrelenting in the pursuit of revenge.
special features:a fistful of dollars/a fistful of dollars more: audio commentary by sir christop.
