ping
Nope, “Sanjuro” was his best, IMHO.
CC
“When the film was first broadcast on American television, a new sequence was added by network executives (unknown to either Eastwood or Leone). In this prologue, the Man with No Name (played by a look-a-like) has his prison sentence commuted by the prison warden, provided he cleans up the Mexican village of the film. The prologue was dropped from later releases and broadcasts of the film.”
Wow anyone recall this? I wonder what year it was first broadcast.
Freegards
Yojimbo was inspired by Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Glass Key’ which was serialized in Black Mask magazine in 1930 and published as a novel the following year.
The original title of ‘Last Man Standing’ was apparently “Yo Jimbo!”
And some of us like his Shakespearean movies like Throne of Blood and his Red Beard.
When I saw the trailer (Previews of coming attractions...remember those?)to LAST MAN STANDING, I immediately knew it was a rip off of the YOJIMBO and A FIST FULL OF DOLLARS.