Soundtrack: A Fistful of Dollars & A Few Dollars More
Composer(s): Ennio Morricone
Released: 1964
Genre(s): 1960's, Score, Western




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From what initiated an entire genre of classic westerns in the 1960's. Known popularly as Spaghetti Westerns, this film was initially released in Italy in 1964 and released a few years later in the states in 1967. The film immediately took off and from it two Spanish sequels came shorty thereafter.

As one of the first Spaghetti Westerns to be released in the United States, many of the European cast and crew took on American stage names. These included Leone himself ("Bob Robertson"), Gian Maria Volontè ("Johnny Wels"), and composer Ennio Morricone ("Dan Savio").

The film's music was written by Ennio Morricone, credited as Dan Savio. Morricone recalled Leone requesting him to write "Dimitri Tiomkin music" for the film. The trumpet theme is similar to Tiomkin's El Degüello theme from Rio Bravo (1959) (that was called Un dollaro d'onore in Italy) while the opening title whistling music recalls Tiomkin's use of whistling in his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Though not used in the completed film, Peter Tevis recorded lyrics to Morricone's theme for the film. As a movie tie-in to the American release, United Artists Records released a different set of lyrics to Morricone's theme called Lonesome One by Little Anthony and the Imperials.