aka Per un pugno di dollari. An anonymous man (Clint Eastwood) rides into a New Mexican town on a mule, and decides to stay when he finds out that it is torn in two by a gang war between the Baxter's and the Rojo's. He schemes to make money from both sides by playing them off against each other, but his plans are complicated when he gets involved with Marisol (Marianne Koch) and decides to reunite her with her husband and child, despite one of the Rojo's taking her for himself.
From the opening titles you know this is going to be a classic and served to popularise the spaghetti western genre. From the music, the script, and the cinematography, all add to make a classic western. And even though it is a thinly disguised remake of Yojimbo (1961), it takes the basics of that film and makes it all its own.
