Inspired by Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo," Sergio Leone elected to bring his special sensibility to the western genre, with 1964's "A Fistful of Dollars" his introductory work. Instead of creating a throwaway cowboy film, he reinvented the genre, delivering extraordinary tension and cinematographic intensity, finding special stylistic magic with his first effort in the future "Dollars Trilogy," which turned Leone into a legend and star Clint Eastwood into an icon. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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