History Film / DollarsTrilogy

* ThematicSeries: {{Downplayed}} There are no direct story connections between entries, mainly because Leone never intended for this to be a trilogy. However the character played by Creator/ClintEastwood is strongly implied to be the same person being given different nicknames in each movie and there are some [[ContinuityNod minor references]] that link the instalments to each other, so the series is now seen as telling the adventures of the Man with No Name.

* ThematicSeries: There are no story connections, mainly since Leone never intended for this to be a trilogy. However they are now seen as telling the adventures of the Man with No Name.

'''{{T|ropeCodifier}}he''' {{Spaghetti Western}}s.

The 1992 film ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'' was directed by Eastwood and dedicated to Leone. According to Eastwood himself, the film can be viewed as a BroadStrokes sequel to the ''Dollars'' trilogy with the main character William Munny being an older version of the Man with No Name.

The 1992 film ''Fim/{{Unforgiven}}'' was directed by Eastwood and dedicated to Leone. According to Eastwood himself, the film can be viewed as a BroadStrokes sequel to the ''Dollars'' trilogy with the main character William Munny being an older version of the Man with No Name.

* {{Prequel}}: Surprisingly both the second and third films are set before ''A Fistful of Dollars'', which has a gravestone that establishes the film takes place during or after 1873. ''For a Few Dollars More'' has a newspaper dated 1872 and at one point the Man with No Name's hat is shot at creating holes that can be seen in the first film, while ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' is firmly set during the American Civil War while gravestones can be seen dated 1864.

* {{Prequel}}: Surprisingly both the second and third films are set before ''A Fistful of Dollars'', which has a gravestone that establishes the film takes place during or after 1873. ''For a Few Dollars More'' has a newspaper dated 1872 and at one point the Man with No Name' hat is shot at creating holes that can be seen in the first film, while ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' is firmly set during the American Civil War while gravestones can be seen dated 1864.

'''{{T|ropeCodifier}}he''' SpaghettiWestern films.

# It also features Leone's regular cast members consisting of the likes of Aldo Sambrell, Benito Stefanelli, Lorenzo Robeldo and Mario Brega, and both Creator/LeeVanCleef and Gian Maria Volonte appear in two films. Additionally, it was dubbed in its entirety at Creator/TitraStudios in New York, with the exception of scenes added back into ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' in 2003 which were dubbed at Intersound in Los Angeles.

The ''"Dollars Trilogy"'' (also known as ''"[[TheTropeWithoutATitle The Man with No Name]] Trilogy"'') is a trilogy of SpaghettiWestern films by Creator/SergioLeone. It consists of, in order of production:

This series ended BlackAndWhiteMorality in later Westerns. It also made everyone who made Westerns after these films want to cast Creator/ClintEastwood, not to mention the FountainOfExpies his image generated.

The ''"Dollars Trilogy"'' is simultaneously a ThematicSeries (there are no story connections at all and only some cursory ContinuityNod moments) and a DeconstructorFleet. Together, they tell how the West was tamed, and where Men with No Name fit in all of that.

# The main protagonists consistently are [[AntiHero anti-heroes]], either {{bounty hunter}}s or {{opportunistic|bastard}} drifters/outlaws.

# The main protagonists are either {{bounty hunter}}s or {{opportunistic|bastard}} drifters/outlaws.

# Creator/ClintEastwood is in all of them, popularly referred to as the Man With No Name. Although he is referred to by a different name in each film ("Joe", "Manco", and "Blondie" respectively), all of them are nicknames given to him by another character, and it's unclear whether he is even supposed to be the same character, at least until he picks up the poncho he wears in the other two films towards the end of ''The Good, The Bad and the Ugly''.

# The central characters are either {{bounty hunter}}s or {{opportunistic|bastard}} drifters/outlaws.

This series ended BlackAndWhiteMorality in later Westerns. It also made everyone who made Westerns after these films want to cast Creator/ClintEastwood.

# Being [[CaliforniaDoubling Westerns filmed far from America]] -- in UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}, since it has more WildWest-type terrain than Leone's native UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} does.

# Being Westerns filmed far from America -- in UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}, since it has more WildWest-type terrain than Leone's native UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} does.

* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.

# It also features Leone's regular cast members consisting of the likes of Aldo Sambrell, Benito Stefanelli, Lorenzo Robeldo and Mario Brega, and both Creator/LeeVanCleef and Gian Maria Volonte appear in two films.