For a handle of dollars

For a handle of dollars ( Per a pugno di dollari ) is a Western spaghetti carried out by Sergio Leone, left in 1964.

Synopsis

Two rival, Baxter and Rojo, rich person and powerful families thanks to the traffic of weapons and alcohol; in the medium, an unknown which will poke this war for a handle of dollars…

Data sheet

Title: For a handle of dollars
original Title: Per a pugno di dollari
Realization: Bob Robertson alias Sergio Leone
Production: Arrigo Colombo, Giorgio Papi
Scenario: Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Luciano Vincenzoni
Music: Ennio Morricone
Photography: Massimo Dallamano
Assembly: Roberto Cinquini, artistic Alfonso Santacana
Director: Carlo Simi
Country of origin: Italy
Kind: western spaghetti
Lasted: 99 minutes
Coming out date: December 10th 1964 (Italy); March 1st 1966 (France)

Distribution

Clint Eastwood : Joe
Marianne Koch: Marisol
Gian Maria Will (John Wells with the credits): Ramon Rojo
Wolfgang Lukschy: John Baxter
Sieghardt Rupp: Esteban Rojo
Antonio Prieto: Gift Miguel Rojo
Jose Calvo: Silvanito
Margarita Lozano : Consuelo Baxter
Daniel Martin: Julio
Joseph Egger: Peripero

Around film

First film of the trilogy of Sergio Leone: For a handle of dollars , And for some dollars moreover and the Good, the Rough one and the Gangster .
It is a Remake of Yojimbo of Akira Kurosawa. “ I saw a film of Kurosawa : Yojimbo . One cannot say that it was a masterpiece. It was about a démarquage of the red Harvest of Dashiell Hammett. However, the topic me plaisait : a man arrives in a city where two rival bands are made the war. He places himself between the two camps to demolish each gang. I thought that it was necessary to replace this history in its country of origin: America. The film of Kurosawa occurred to Japan. In making a western allowed to find the direction of the epopee. And as this account was also inspired by Arlequin, servant of two Masters of Goldoni, I did not have any complex to be Italian to operate this transplantation. Without counting that the inventor of the western is not other than Homère. Without forgetting that the western is a universal kind because it treats individualisme. ” The producers who had not provided that the film gains an international success neglected to negotiate the rights of Yojimbo . A lawsuit delayed the exit of film in the United States (1966) at the end which Kurosawa was seen granting the rights of film for Japan.
the film is a italo-Germanic coproduction.
Italian Receipts: 3.182.000 000 liras.
Sergio Leone signs the film Bob Roberston, in homage to his/her father Roberto Robertis.
Richard Harrison was initially thought for the main role, but that one advised Clint Eastwood in the place because it knew " to go up to cheval" .

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