this movie ripped off LAST MAN STANDING!!! :)

....or it could be that there's just honest fans of Bruno and Walter Hill who discover the movie. I love both LMS as well as the mindblowing Yojimbo, but it's not like ppl don't know about something unless the source material is magnificent.

...I'm kinda trailing here. Not easy to explain my thoughts but you get the just of it. I'm off to watch Wild Bill now.


If your enemy refuses to be humbled....DESTROY HIM!

Weird thing. The plot of Yojimbo was an unlicensed adamptation of the Hammet story "Red Harvest", about rival bootleggers. Leone made it into a western, and got sued by the studio that owned the rights to Yojimbo. Years later, Hollywood remakes Yojimbo about bootleggers, and Kurosawa gets the "story by" credit.

And if you want to count it, the Coen Brothers' "Miller's Crossing" was homage to Hammet (particularly "Red Harvest" and "The Glass Key") that was much more faithful to the spirit of the original stories than LMS.