Title Analysis - 'A Fistful Of Dollars'

This is a 'transcipt' of the opening from the film 'A Fistful Of Dollars' (1964), which lists the order of the time the credits roll in:

0.21 - Clint Eastwood
0.29 -'Fistful Of Dollars' - Film Title
0.38 - Mariane Koch
0.44 - Johnny Wels,
          W. lukschy
0.52 - Antiono Prieto
          Jose Calvo
          Margherita Lozano
          Daniel Martin
1.03 - Photography,
          Music,
          Art Director Credits
1.12 - Unit Manager,
          Assistant Producer,
          Film Editors Credits
1.21 - Script Girl,
          Sound
          Technical Advise
1.25 - Production Managers
1.32 - Producers- Harry Colombo and George Papi
1.37 - Technicolor and Techniscope
1.50 - Sergio Leone (Director)
2.10 - Cuts to Film

The title credits, along with the music, are used, not only to inform the audience of you has worked on the film, but to help establish the genre of 'A Fistful Of Dollars', which is of the western genre. Each time a title comes on the screen it goes along with the sound of a bullet, which is a common feature of the film. The animation used for the credits is of a amn riding a horse and shooting people, which are features of the western genre of the film.


Matt Healey