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'The Man With No Name'Spaghetti Western Hero - [1964, 1965, 1966]Baby-BiographyIn 1964, Italian director Sergio Leone releases his film, 'A Fist Full Of Dollars' (almost a scene-for-scene remake of Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo'), and changes the Western genre forever. Clint Eastwood is cast as the un-named hero who enters the town of San Miguel and stirs up violence between rival gangs. In playing them off against each other, 'The Man With No Name' succeeds in eliminating most of the town's population and exits with all their money. In 1965, 'The Man With No Name' returns as a bounty hunter in Leone's follow-up spaghetti western, 'For A Few Dollars More'. In an uneasy union with another bounty hunter - Lee Van Cleef's Colonel Mortimer - his target is a recently escaped bandit, Indio, who plans to rob the Bank of El Paso. In 1966, Leone completes his 'Dollars' trilogy with the sprawling epic 'The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly', in which three men gun-fight their way across a civil war-torn West in search of two hundred thousand dollars' worth of gold. Clint Eastwood makes a final appearance as 'The Man With No Name' (Il Buono - the good), Lee Van Cleef returns as 'Angel-Eyes' (Il Cattivo - the bad), with Eli Wallach entering as Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, known as 'The Rat' (Il Brutto - the ugly). Phespirit's HeroSergio Leone's & Clint Eastwood's creation, 'The Man With No Name', is the ultimate male fantasy role model. He is an embodiment of cool. He is tall, rugged, steely-eyed, sleek, silent and dazzlingly effective. He is as quick on the draw with his rapier quips as he is with his pistols. He is every bit as ruthless and money-hungry as the villains he dispatches, whilst retaining an honourable compassion for the innocent. Quite rightly, the 'Dollars' trilogy won international stardom for Clint Eastwood as an actor, for Sergio Leone as a film-maker and for Ennio Morricone as a master composer of soundtracks.
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