'To me Clint closely resembled a cat': Sergio Leone on the role that made Eastwood a movie star.
Clint Eastwood was catapulted to film stardom when he played a brooding gunslinger in Sergio Leone's first Spaghetti Western, A Fistful of Dollars. In a 1977 interview with the BBC, the Italian director confessed that he "really wanted" another actor for the now iconic role.
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• 'To me Clint closely resembled a cat': Sergio Leone on the role that made Eastwood a movie star

  When Sergio Leone cast Clint Eastwood in his 1964 film, A Fistful of Dollars, he turned a television actor into a film star, and cooked up the so-called "Spaghetti Western".

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