10 Epic Moments In Sergio Leone Films

10. "Get Three Coffins Ready" - A Fistful Of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars was the first of the dollars trilogy and is credited with the emergence of the Spaghetti Western genre. Filmed on a relatively low budget of $200,000, Sergio Leone's tale about a quiet bounty hunter looked to reinvent a genre that for many critics was in decline.

Played by the now legendary Clint Eastwood, the Man with No Name is recognised today as one of the most iconic characters in film history and it does not take long for the anti-hero to introduce himself as the coolest man in the West. Just thirteen minutes into the highly influential western classic, the Man with No Name takes issue with the disrespectful welcome that a posse had given him and his mule upon arriving in the border town of San Miguel.

After suggesting that the town's undertaker should get to work on the making of three coffins, a poncho wearing Eastwood approaches the men and advises them to apologise for his mule's 'misinterpretation' of their joke. At first the group laugh off the stranger's demands, before realising that this was no time for laughter!

The Man with No Name proceeds to gun down all four members of the posse, before then heading over to the undertaker and correcting himself, "My mistake. Four coffins".