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2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Italian director Sergio Leones A Fistful of Dollars. At a Rome cinema in 1963, a restless Sergio Leone (seeking ideas for a new project) watched Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. On viewing the film, Leone thought it would make a great western. Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai had already been adapted as a western, The Magnificent Seven, in the US (by director John Sturges) a few years earlier. Yojimbo was inspired by Dashiell Hammett’s novel Red Harvest and also by Hollywood westerns like Shane. Leone thought “it would be wonderful to take it back to where it originally came from”. So, in 1964 the western was reinvented in Italy as a low budget film originally called Il Magnifico Strangero (The Magnificent Stranger). The title was changed to A Fistful Of Dollars. It became a huge success in Italy and launched the film career of Clint Eastwood. Due to a copyright lawsuit brought by Kurosawa, the film wasn’t released in the US until 1967. From The Spaghetti Journal: joeciardiello.tumblr/ latimes/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-spaghetti-western-20140629-story.html
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 12:59:49 +0000

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