{"id":3488,"date":"2020-09-22T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wideners.com\/blog\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2020-09-22T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:12:48","slug":"guns-of-the-man-with-no-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wideners.com\/blog\/guns-of-the-man-with-no-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns Of The Man With No Name Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clint Eastwood and Westerns have been a perfect match for more than fifty years. It all started with his portrayal of Rowdy Yates in the TV series <\/span>Rawhide<\/a>. <\/i>The show ran for a total of 217 episodes from 1959 through 1966, with Eastwood starring in all of them. Clint continued his cowboy ways on the big screen with Sergio Leone\u2019s so-called \u201c<\/span>Man with No Name Trilogy.\u201d<\/span> A series of films that set the standard for future Spaghetti Westerns (films produced in Italy and Spain) and began Eastwood\u2019s rise to stardom.<\/span><\/p>\n

The three films–<\/span>A Fistful of Dollars<\/i>\u00a0(1964),\u00a0For a Few Dollars More<\/i>\u00a0(1965) and\u00a0The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<\/i> (1966)\u2014make up the no-name trilogy. To be fair, Eastwood\u2019s characters do have a name in each of the films. The first one, in which he\u2019s called Joe, features an array of guns of the man with no name. He shoots a revolver, three rifles, a double-barreled shotgun, and mans a machine gun that wipes out an entire cavalry outfit. It\u2019s set in the 1860s, and it\u2019s vintage Eastwood as the anti-hero.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Fistful of Dollars<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

The plot is fairly uncomplicated. <\/span>Eastwood plays a taciturn but deadly gunfighter who rides into a small border town that has been torn apart by two rival gangs: the Rojos and the Baxters. It doesn\u2019t take long for the stranger to <\/span>show off his speed and accuracy with a gun. He effortlessly shoots four Baxter men who had insulted him as he entered the town. <\/span>He then offers his services to each gang, playing one against the other and getting rich in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou shoot to kill, you better hit the heart.\u201d – Joe (Clint Eastwood)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a rather high body count in A Fistful of Dollars.<\/i> The Rojos gang wipes out an entire company of Mexican soldiers on horse-back (and miraculously misses all the horses). Later, they brutally murder a dozen or so Baxters, including the matriarch, as they flee from a burning building. As mentioned, Joe kills four of the Baxters and almost single-handedly destroys the Rojos clan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Guns Of The Magnificent Stranger<\/h4>\n

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Here is a recap of the guns of the man with no name that were used to keep Piripero, the coffin-maker, busy throughout the film:<\/span><\/p>\n