Last Updated on January 20, 2021 by rob
53 years ago an American television actor accepted the starring role in a low budget Italian-German-Spanish co-production of a remake of a Japanese samurai movie, at a time when the very notion of Americans acting in European movies was regarded in Hollywood as the kiss of death for their careers. How wrong they all were. Joe Leydon has a good summation of the impact of the Clint and Leone trilogy here.
