A Fistful of Dollars – Ennio Morricone (1967)

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Additional information about this Hugo Montenegro Ennio Morricone vinyl art.

Ennio Morricone – The Artist

Ennio Morricone, (1928 – 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player who wrote music in a wide range of styles. Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His score to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is considered one of the most influential soundtracks in history and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

A Fistful of Dollars – The Song

‘A Fistful of Dollars‘   Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released in 1966 alongside the Western film, A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone. The score is composed by frequent Leone collaborator Ennio Morricone, whose distinctive original compositions, containing gunfire, whistling, and yodelling permeate the film. 

Clint Eastwood – The Shape

This record has been cut into the silhouette  of the actor Clint Eastwood wearing his hat and poncho as worn in the Spaghetti Western film, ‘A Fistful ofDollars’. A Fistful of Dollars  is a 1964 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto and Joseph Egger. 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. It was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, both also starring Eastwood. Collectively, the films are known as the Dollars Trilogy, or the Man with No Name Trilogy, after the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood’s character in all three films as the “Man with No Name”. All three films were released in sequence in the United States in 1967, catapulting Eastwood into stardom.

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