The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians is the second part of a trilogy that began with The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians (1977) by Dan Pita, who also directed the third part - The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians (1980).

The trilogy combined the iconography specific to the American Western with topics imposed by the domestic film industry: duty to one's native country, calming down inter-ethnic conflicts, the bad influence of religious beliefs. The film is about two brothers who go to America to persuade another brother who lives there to come back to Romania.