a fistful of dollars

September 17 movie: A Fistful of Dollars. How do I love this movie? So much that I can hardly think of anything to say about it. An interesting trivia note: one of the bad guys is called Rubio, which according to Georg can be translated as "Blondie." Which was the name of Eastwood's character in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Also, in the intro, Robert Osborne mentioned that Kurosawa is never acknowledged or even mentioned in the credits of this movie. We wondered if there were any problems because of that. The Berne Convention has been around for over a hundred years, but I don't know if Japan was always a party to it. It's a pretty clear appropriation: sometimes the Leone version is a shot for shot copy of Yojimbo.