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For a Few Dollars More. The first big-league Italian-made western, A Fistful of Dollars (TIME, Feb. 10), was a production as synthetic as its scenery. Its sole distinction was that it introduced Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name. Now The Man is back, again played by...
All his life, Thomas H. Moorer has been a comer. He was valedictorian of his high school class at 15, then had to wait two years before he could pick up his appointment and sail through Annapolis in the class of '33. At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked...
Grape ivy, (a number of species of the genus Cissus), though not a true ivy, is the type commonly found on Yard buildings. The psychedelic brew is prepared by taking a fistful of the bark strips, cleaning them and then sterilizing them in boiling water for ten minutes. The clean...
A Fistful of Dollars, the perfect western, is without suspense--there's not a who-dunnit, what's-happening-baby minute in it. Sergio Leone doesn't let melodrama disturb his intimacy with an object or an actor's gesture.
Whatever his financial arrangements, Actor Eastwood, the sometime star of television's Rawhide, is certainly not paid by the word. In Fistful he hardly talks at all. Doesn't shave, either. Just drawls orders. Sometimes the bad guys drawl back. Just as tersely. Trouble is, after they stop...