A Fistful of Dollars(Per un pugno di dollari)

Revolutionising cinema by inventing the Spaghetti Western genre, Sergio Leone subverts the traditional, squeaky-clean American cowboy hero with an amoral antihero. As the sliding flute whistles into the air, we enter the hardscrabble West of the Man with No Name, actor Clint Eastwood's rebirth as a cigar-smoking, ponchoclad anti-hero who guides us through the ‘Dollars Trilogy’, with a personality as evasive as Ennio Morricone's recurrent theme. The plot – loosely based on Kurosawa Akira's classic Yojimbo – entails a stranger manipulating but caught up in a bloody feud between two clans in a Mexican border town, leading to an unforgettable showdown and then an enigmatic departure. But the cinematic experience is so much more...