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Sergio Leone is in many ways the least typical of Italian film directors. Leone was born in Rome in 1929, and began his career doing biblical-era epics.

His first great film was a remake of the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa"s film, Yojimbo. Leone"s film, released in 1964, was named A Fistful of Dollars. The film would contain many of the hallmarks of Leone"s early work. It enlisted the help of Leone"s lifelong collaborator, the peerless music composer, Ennio Morricone. The film was also the first in which Leone utilized the laconic Hollywood refuge, Clint Eastwood, as "the man with no name". Conceived in Italy, shot mostly in Spain with a Hollywood leading man, this movie was the first of the "spaghetti westerns". A Fistful of Dollars shows the early trademarks of Leone. The main character has no name; he comes to a violent, lawless town, is forced to action, and restores order and then moves on. He develops no relationships and expresses no emotion for any of the town members. He chews on a stogie and glints into the sun as he dispatches the murderous baddies with nonchalant efficiency. With "the man with no name" Leone and Eastwood had created a new motion picture archetype. This was not the cowboys of old like Gary Cooper in High Noon or Alan Ladd in Shane, afraid to use violence until the last possible moment. This was a character rooted in violence, who found his greatest possible expression in the practice of violence. While the character was not as despicable as those around him, his anti-social tendencies and hair trigger temper made him different from celluloid cowboys that had preceded him.

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