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QUINCY DINING HALL. A Fistful of Dollars starring Clint Eastwood. Jan. 19-21. 8 and 10. $1.
Just when anticipation is keenest (Has the President fallen gravely ill? Has Brezhnev delivered a nuclear ultimatum? Has Agnew staged a coup d'etat?), Nixon emerges with a fistful of notes and a gleam in his eye. To an astonished public, he announces a bold, new, precedent-shattering program...
So begins Yojimbo plot source of A Fistful of Dollars and one of the world's classic "westerns." It's a Japanese movie but contains many elements familiar to the fan of the American horse opera. There is the wandering, homeless hero, the isolated town being destroyed by rival factions...
It was 1964. Italian Director Sergio Leone was casting the lead in an American-style western called A Fistful of Dollars. His eye was caught by a rangy young actor in a scene from the Rawhide TV series, even though the actor had no lines in the scene. Enthusiastic over...
The actor was Clint Eastwood. Whatever it was he was doing, it was right. His slow-talking, fast-shooting performance in Fistful, for which he was paid $15,000, made him within months Europe's favorite American actor. Two more phenomenally successful Leone westerns followed, in which Eastwood'...