Clint Eastwood's squint-eyed gaze in a cowboy hat has become the face of the modern Western. It's an image that was first created when Sergio Leone cast him as the "Man with No Name" in his genre-bending Spaghetti Western, A Fistful of Dollars. The first of the Dollars trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars, marked Eastwood as the ultimate antihero in the Western genre, with the actor-filmmaker delivering a cowboy archetype who projects a cool, ruthless, and enigmatic persona. Technically, Eastwood's character Joe ended up being known by United Artists' promotion-given name, the "Man with No Name." Eastwood's rise to one of the most iconic figures in the genre followed his impressive delivery as cattle driver Rowdy Yates on the Western television show Rawhide. Equipped with sparse dialogue and a gaze that did all the talking, Eastwood's portrayal of the Man with No Name elevated the low-budget Italian production into a beloved classic. But when you think of his "Man with No Name," martinis, tuxedos, and international espionage probably don’t come to mind. Yet, in a 1964 interview, Eastwood made a surprising comparison between his Fistful of Dollars antihero and James Bond.
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