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Originally posted by Veteran:
I think I read somewhere that Gina chose the cut off lever action to honor Woody Strode. Who appears at the begining of the film.

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:

Last Saturday, I caught a free showing of Once Upon a Time in the West on the last day of the Los Angeles Italia film festival.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0064116/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_West

I'd never seen a Sergio Leone film, and I'd heard this was one of his best, so I wanted to see it in its native habitat.

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Originally posted by daveshayne:
I'm not saying it's not a good movie but I think 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' is better.

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Originally posted by daveshayne:
I'm not saying it's not a good movie but I think 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' is better.

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Kinda why I said "one of his best".

The "Dollars" Trilogy is next on my list!

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Originally posted by daveshayne:
You might want to watch 'Yojimbo' (Dir. by Kurosawa) before A 'Fistful of Dollars'. It's the original and a fine piece of film in it's own right.

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Influence

Although the film was advertised in trailers as "the first film of its kind", the plot and even the cinematography was based almost entirely on Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo (written by Kurosawa and Ryuzo Kikushima). Yojimbo itself is based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, although Kurosawa never credited the author, despite acknowledging the source. Kurosawa remained insistent that he receive compensation. He wrote Leone: "It is a very fine film, but it is my film." The producers of Yojimbo successfully sued the production of A Fistful of Dollars for copyright infringement and gained an apology, $100,000 dollars and 15% of the box office totals in Asia to the movie in compensation. Kurosawa later admitted he quite liked A Fistful of Dollars and considered it a worthy remake.

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