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A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A Fistful of Dollars is a spaghetti Western film from director Sergio Leone starring Clint Eastwood. A Fistful of Dollars is notable for being Clint Eastwood's big break in Hollywood and also for being the beginning of the "Dollars Trilogy." The film was followed by For a Few Dollars More in 1965 and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly in 1966.
A Fistful of Dollars
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- Director
- Sergio Leone , Monte Hellman
- Release Date
- January 18, 1964
- Studio(s)
- United Artists
- Distributor(s)
- United Artists
- Cast
- Clint Eastwood , Marianne Koch , Gian Maria Volonte , Wolfgang Lukschy , Sieghardt Rupp , Joseph Egger
- Writers
- Ryûzô Kikushima , Akira Kurosawa , A. Bonzzoni , Víctor Andrés Catena , Sergio Leone , Jaime Comas Gil
- Runtime
- 99minutes
- Budget
- $200,000
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