Howard Hughes alerted me to some recently emerged out takes from the making of A Fistful of Dollars which are now up on Youtube.
He has kindly written an article for us entitled ‘Making a Fistful’ outlining the content and we’ve added a link to the footage via Youtube.
You’ll find it all here: http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Making_a_Fistful
Very nice, thanks.
Excellent work, Mr. Hughes (and Mr. Phil, of course)
Excellent,
Btw:
“A Fistful of Dollars was filmed in 11 weeks, from April to June 1964.”
That’s quite a lot for a film which is often called “cheap” or even a B-picture. The budget of 180.000 to 250.000 $ is also far from sparse for a film which uses only unknown actors, a crew without big names, used costumes and a few locations, which mostly were already built and only modified for the film’s needs.
And more than 700 shots is not bad for a film of the 60s.
Incredible - a real find and thanks to Hughes and of course Phil.
A big THANK YOU you to Howard Hughes and Phil!
After all these years, and after having watched (and loved) the ‘Dollars’ Trilogy so many times, it has been a joy indeed to discover such fantastic footage.
If this treasure trove has been found, then what else lies in wait out there on the Prairie??
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This is really great. Thanks to everyone involved.
Totally cool, I will check it all out later.
Coolest post I’ve seen in a long time… across all mediums.
aaaaand watching it again.