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{{quote|''When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle, the man with a pistol will be a dead man''|'''Ramòn Rojo'''}}
 
''[[A FistfulofFistful of Dollars]]'' is [[The Remake|the 1964 (originally unauthorized) remake]] of the Japanese film ''[[Yojimbo]]''. It's the first in what's known as The [[Dollars Trilogy]] by Western fans, and was followed by ''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'' and ''[[The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]''.
 
The Man With No Name (played by [[Clint Eastwood]] and called "Joe" by the coffin maker) wanders into a small poverty-stricken town on the Mexican border dominated by two feuding crime gangs, the [[Bandito|Rojos]] and the Baxters, and he decides to play the clans against each other, ostensibly so that he can profit from their conflict. The opportunity arises in the form of a Mexican shipment of gold passing through the town. However, his sympathies for Marisol, a hostage of the Rojos gang, leads to a change in plans with near-fatal consequences for the Man With No Name.
 
The gunfight at the end is the most famous part of the film. ''[[Back to The Future (Film)|Back To The Future: Part III]]'' directly homages it, among other [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] to this movie.
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=== ''[[A FistfulofFistful of Dollars]]'' provides examples of: ===
* [[Animated Credits Opening]]
* [[Anti-Hero]]- The Man With No Name
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* [[Evil Genius]] - Ramon. He's the only one of the villains who has a clue about Joe, and seems to be the Rojos planner as well.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: A ten minute prologue (hastily filmed by the studio and featuring a body double for Clint Eastwood who's back is facing the camera) was attached to the film when it was first aired on network TV. Why? The guy in charge of ABC HATED the film's amoral plot and refused to air it unless the studio "fixed" what he saw was the impure motive of Joe. Hence the prologue, which rewrites the entire plot via a single ten minute scene where it is "revealed" that Joe was a former convict who was given his freedom in exchange for doing the bidding of the warden of his jail, in terms of driving out the gangs from the town in which the film takes place. Thankfully, the scene only was used for one airing and was promptly destroyed by the studio after the fact...although it has somehow made it onto the DVD as a special feature.
* [[False -Flag Operation]] - {{spoiler|The Rojos pretend to be American soldiers to steal the gold shipment from the Mexican Army. They've already killed the Americans and position the bodies to make it look like they killed each other.}}
* [[Feuding Families]]
* [[Foreign Remake]] - Again, of ''[[Yojimbo]]''. The writers didn't credit Kurosawa at first, and as a result he had to sue them.
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* [[Mexicans With Machine Guns]]
* [[Mob War]]
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]] - For much of the movie, the Man With No Name is only out to make some quick cash, and while he's doing that he's all but invincible in fights and plays all the other characters for suckers. It's only when he tries to do something nice by helping Marisol and her family escape that the bad guys get wise to him and deliver a [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]].
* [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]]
* [[No Name Given]]- The coffinmaker refers to him as Joe. Might as well.
* [[One Bullet Left]]
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