[Stringfellow Hawke]

Fistful was taken completely from a Japanese film maker's classic called Yojimbo *The Bodyguard*.

I saw that movie, and basically all that Leone did was replace samurai swords with pistols and rifles.

Both are great films, each in their own way.

I do tend to like seeing the same actors in the same films, but somehow, I like Sergio's three the way they were, because all the mexican banditos looked real, since I couldn't recognize them from any Hollywood film I've ever seen.

[Borges]

And Kurosawa's Yojimbo was an uncredited adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's Marxist themed novel 'Red Harvest'. Where the 'Man with no name' was a goverment operative.