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A Fistful of Dollars(1964)
Released
1964 · FILM

A Fistful of Dollars

A lone gunslinger infiltrates a lawless border town and pits rival smuggler clans against each other, using ruthless deception to seize a hidden fortune before the violence consumes everyone.

“In his own way he is, perhaps, the most dangerous man who ever lived!”

Directed by
Sergio Leone, Franco Giraldi
Written by
Adriano Bolzoni, Mark Lowell
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
99 min
Language
IT
DramaWestern

Synopsis

The Man With No Name arrives in the Mexican village of San Miguel as the three Rojo brothers and Sheriff John Baxter are embroiled in a power struggle. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers transporting gold meant to purchase new weapons is ambushed by the Rojo brothers, the stranger becomes involved in the ongoing conflict, feeding both sides misleading information to serve his own interests.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 119+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Roberto CinquiniShot by Massimo DallamanoScored by Ennio MorriconeStunts by Benito Stefanelli

Box Office

1964 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 73× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$14.5M

Budget$200K
Worldwide gross$14.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Für eine Handvoll Dollarde
  • A Fistful of Dollarsen
  • Pour une poignée de dollarsfr
  • Por un puñado de dólaresxx

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