Plot

A plot of the film involves Eastwood when a gunman (ab initio credited as "Joe" however nowadays known always when "The Man with No Name") who arrives around a village on the frontier & plays the town's ii rival factions, the Rojos & a Baxters, against each more sequentially to produce money off both sides & save a personal caught in the crossfire.

Although a film wwhen advertised within trailers as "the first film of its kind", a plot & possibly a filming was depending all but completely in Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo. Yojimbo itself is believed by a select few to use at times been according to Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, although Kurosawa never acknowledged such an inspiration. The producers of Yojimbo with success sued a production of A Handful of Dollars for copyright infringement, & gained an apology, and $100,000 dollars and 15% of the pack professional numbers to the picture within compensation. Kurosawa late admitted he quite liked The Handful of Dollars.

Stephen King has credited a trilogy by using inspiring the atmosphere of his novel The Gunslinger.

Quentin Tarantino holds this when a greatest film ever, & claims it as one of his large inspirations in the globe of motion pictures.