Everyone knows that Fistful of Dollars was a retelling of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, but there's also a direct line from Casablance to Yojimbo. A lot of the elements o

Everyone knows that Fistful of Dollars was a retelling of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, but there's also a direct line from Casablance to Yojimbo. A lot of the elements of the sangfroid hero playing both sides, risking his life for another couple's chance at happiness are right there. It's amazing to think that so many of the elements that are still tropes of modern heroic action adventures were all there in 1942.