“In his own way he is, perhaps, the most dangerous man who ever lived!”
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.
Clint Eastwood
Joe
Marianne Koch
Marisol
Gian Maria Volonté
Ramón Rojo
Wolfgang Lukschy
John Baxter
Sieghardt Rupp
Esteban Rojo
Joseph Egger
Piripero
Antonio Prieto
Don Benito Rojo / Don Miguel Rojo
José Calvo
Silvanito
Margarita Lozano
Consuelo Baxter
Daniel Martín
Julián
A Fistful of Dollars is a western film released in 1964 exploring themes of gunslinger, based on novel or book, hostility, greed, gang war, remake. Directed by Sergio Leone, it stars Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonté. 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.
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