A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

A Fistful of Dollars rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.9/10· 253K votes

Rotten Tomatoes98%

Metacritic65%

TMDb7.826/10· 5K votes

With 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.9/10 on IMDb and 65/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About A Fistful of Dollars

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

Cast of A Fistful of Dollars

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  Clint Eastwood

  as Joe

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  Marianne Koch

  as Marisol

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  Gian Maria Volonté

  as Ramón Rojo

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  Wolfgang Lukschy

  as John Baxter

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  Sieghardt Rupp

  as Esteban Rojo

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  Joseph Egger

  as Piripero

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  Antonio Prieto

  as Don Benito Rojo / Don Miguel Rojo

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  José Calvo

  as Silvanito

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  Margarita Lozano

  as Consuelo Baxter

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  Daniel Martín

  as Julián

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  Benito Stefanelli

  as Rubio

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  Mario Brega

  as Chico

A Fistful of Dollars facts

Original title

Per un pugno di dollari

Budget

$200K

Box office

$14.5M

Our take on A Fistful of Dollars

Sergio Leone reinvented the western with this lean, influential 1964 film. A silent, calculating drifter known only as the Man With No Name rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel, where the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter are locked in a simmering feud. Sensing profit, the stranger plays both sides, selling false information and setting his rivals against each other for his own gain. Spare in dialogue and rich in tension, the film trades heroic myth for cool amorality, its style all long stares, sudden violence and dusty menace. Essential for anyone curious about the roots of the spaghetti western and its enduring antihero.