A Fistful of Dollars | Spaghetti Western, Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone (2024)

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What was the quote from A Fistful of Dollars? ›

As the years passed, Eastwood still wasn't always polite about Leone (“he's not very good at directing actors”) but acknowledged in a 1976 interview with Patrick McGilligan “that working on the European scene sort of inspired me to get back into directing”.

The film, an international co-production between Italy, West Germany and Spain, was filmed on a low budget (reported to be $200,000), and Eastwood was paid $15,000 for his role. Released in Italy in 1964 and in the United States in 1967, the film initiated the popularity of the spaghetti Western genre.

And it's partly political. But the other thing was that Leone felt that Westerns had got a bit talky. There was too much talking in them.

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The actual quote comes from the New Testament of the Bible, specifically 1 Timothy 6:10, which states: “For the love of money is the root of all evil.”

From there, the screenwriter explained that Leone had to settle for Eastwood because, compared to Bronson and McQueen, Eastwood did not command such a hefty appearance fee. Vincenzoni explained: “Because he had a little money, and Clint at that time was a little TV actor and didn't cost so much”.

It was far from ugly. Mills insisted Eastwood, 92, is a very good kisser. "I would give him a triple A!" the star gushed. She also revealed that Eastwood was "a really sweet man" on set.

He is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry. Eastwood is descended from Mayflower passenger William Bradford, and through this line is the 12th generation born in North America. His family relocated three times during the 1930s as his father changed occupations.

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What movie did John Wayne turn down of Clint Eastwood? ›

John turned down both High Noon (1952) and Dirty Harry (1971), and those movies brought Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood to whole new levels of celebrity.

Leonardo del Arco Barrera, known as Nino del Arco, is a Spanish lawyer and former child actor. He played Jesus along Daniel Martín and Marianne Koch in A Fistful of Dollars (1964), by Sergio Leone.

Henry Fonda originally turned down the film after he read a badly translated script. Then he phoned Eli Wallach, who said, “Take it!” Wallach, who'd starred in “Ugly,” added that working with Leone was an experience no actor should miss.

Sergio Leone was Paramount's first choice to direct the film. Leone turned down the option, in order to work on his own gangster film Once Upon a Time in America. Peter Bogdanovich was then approached but he also declined the offer because he was not interested in the mafia.

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