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A Fistful of Dollars is great viewing not only because it’s great in its own right, but also because of its presentation of the cinematic motifs so easily recognized today. The spaghetti western stereotypes appear in full force with the eerie whistling music score so often parodied in today’s cartoons and movies, the terrible voiceovers of the Italian actors’ lines, and Clint Eastwood’s cigar-chomping squinted-eye pompadoured persona. Watching the Mayor of Monterey play two rival gangs against each other provides light Sunday-morning fare that is high in body count and easy on the brain.