Dollars Trilogy

On the data. Three films that are not really a trilogy. The Man with No Name was invented by the American distributor to sell them as a set. Clint Eastwood plays three separately named characters across the three films: Joe, then Manco, then Blondie. No plot carries over. The years are the biggest practical problem. All three opened in Italy across 1964, 1965 and 1966, and all three reached America during 1967. So American sources routinely file the entire trilogy as 1967 and European ones give three different years. This page uses the Italian dates, which are the first releases. The chronology inside the films runs backwards. The third is set during the Civil War, the second involves a Civil War veteran, and the first has an 1873 grave in it. Nobody recommends watching them that way. Running times are another trap, particularly for the third film. The Italian premiere ran a hundred and seventy seven minutes, Italian distribution a hundred and seventy four after a scene was cut, the standard American print a hundred and sixty one, and some British prints as little as a hundred and forty eight. A restoration in the early 2000s put back fourteen minutes for America, with Eastwood and Eli Wallach re-recording their lines more than thirty five years later, and it drew complaints for remixing the sound with new effects and offering no original audio. The first film is an unlicensed remake of Yojimbo. Toho sued, Leone settled out of court, and Kurosawa took fifteen per cent of the revenue, which he said earned him more than Yojimbo did.

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