A Fistful of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) is a 1964 spaghetti western film, directed by Sergio Leone, and starring Clint Eastwood, which kicks off The Dollars Trilogy, which would continue with For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. It features a music score by Ennio Morricone.

It was distributed by United Artists, which also distributed the other films of the trilogy. The film was filmed in Spain, having an acting staff from Italy, Spain and Germany.

The film was slightly cut for approval by the MPAA in the days before its film rating system; it was later rated PG. A further three minutes were cut by the BBFC for an X certificate for its UK release, and one minute of footage was restored in 1981 with an AA certificate. The Australian release, with a PG rating in its initial release and an R rating in later releases, was uncut; this uncut version was later released in the United States with an R rating and in the UK with a 15 certificate.

Synopsis

A drifter gunman arrives in the Mexican village of San Miguel at the border of United States of America, and befriends the owner of the local bar Silvanito. The stranger discovers that the town is dominated by two gangster lords: John Baxter and the cruel Ramón Rojo. When the stranger kills four men of the Baxter's gang, he is hired by Ramón's brother Esteban Rojo to join their gang. However, the stranger decides to work for both sides, playing one side off against the other.

Cast[]

Character	Original Actor	Dub Actor
Joe	Clint Eastwood
Marisol	Marianne Koch	Joyce Gordon
Ramón Rojo	Gian Maria Volonté	Bernard Grant
John Baxter	Wolfgang Lukschy
Esteban Rojo	Sieghardt Rupp
Piripero	Joseph Egger	Robert Dryden
Don Miguel Rojo	Antonio Prieto	George Gonneau
Silvanito	José Calvo	Jack Curtis
Consuelo Baxter	Margarita Lozano	Joyce Gordon
Julio	Daniel Martín	Larry Robinson
Rubio	Benito Stefanelli	Ray Owens
Chico	Mario Brega	Jack Curtis
Antonio Baxter	Bruno Carotenuto	Peter Fernandez
Manolo	Aldo Sambrell	Ray Owens
Jesús	Nino del Arco	Corinne Orr
Juan de Dios	Antonio Moreno	Gilbert Mack
First Baxter	Lorenzo Robledo	Ray Owens
Second Baxter	Antonio Molino Rojo	Jack Curtis
Third Baxter	Luís Bar Boo	Bernard Grant
Fourth Baxter	Julio Peréz Tabernero	Doesn't speak
Mexican Cavalry Captain	José Riesgo	Peter Fernandez
Mexican Cavalry Sergeant		Ray Owens
Mexican Cavalry Soldier	Juan Cortés	Doesn't speak
Stagecoach Guard	Edmondo Tieghi	Bernard Grant
Martín	José Halufi
Paco	Manuel Bermudez Boliche
Rojo Woman		Corinne Orr
Baxter Gangster	Giuseppe Frisaldi
Baxter Gangster	William R. Thompkins
Baxter Sentry	Antonio Vico
Álvaro	José Canalejas
Rojo Gangster
Paquito		Doesn't speak
Rojo Gangster		Ray Owens
Fausto	Enrique Santiago	Anthony La Penna
Vincente	Fernando Sánchez Polack	Gilbert Mack
Baxter Gangster	Manuel Peña	Ray Owens

Additional Voices[]

Video Releases[]

Distributor	Year	Region	Country
20th Century Fox	1982	NTSC	United States
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	2007	1 NTSC
	2011	1 NTSC
	2011	A DVB-T
Kino Video	2018	1 NTSC
Kino Video	2018	A DVB-T

Trivia[]

Peter Fernandez, the voice of Antonio Baxter, is sometimes mistaken as having voiced Don Miguel Rojo, most notably on the Aveleyman website.
This is believed to be the last work George Gonneau dubbed before relocating to Paris for ten years.
Though the dub is predominantly New Yorkian, Anthony La Penna recorded his dialogue in Rome, having moved there permanently the year before the dub was recorded.
It's possible this dub premiered in Japan, through Toho.

References[]

↑ Johnson, Bob. "Peter Fernandez: Speed Dubbing!". SciFi Japan. Retrieved February 19, 2019.

External Links[]

A Fistful of Dollars on the Internet Movie Database

[1] Johnson, Bob. "Peter Fernandez: Speed Dubbing!". SciFi Japan. Retrieved February 19, 2019.

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