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| For a Few Dollars More | |
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| File:Forafewdollarsmore.jpg For a Few Dollars More American promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Sergio Leone |
| Written by | Fulvio Montella Sergio Leone Luciano Vincenzoni |
| Produced by | Arturo González |
| Starring | Clint Eastwood Lee van Cleef Gian Maria Volonté Klaus Kinski |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Distributed by |  United Artists |
Release dates |  December 18, 1965 May 10, 1967 |
Running time | 131 min. |
| Language | Italian |
For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più) is a 1965 film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté. German actor Klaus Kinski also plays a supporting role as a secondary villain. The film was released in the United States in 1967 and is the second part of what is commonly known as the Leone / Eastwood "Dollars" trilogy.
Tagline:
- "In a place where life had no meaning, death sometimes had its price"
Plot
Eastwood (marketed as the "Man with No Name") and Van Cleef (as Colonel Douglas Mortimer) portray two bounty hunters in pursuit of "El Indio" (Volonté), one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang (one of whom is played by Kinski). Indio is a ruthless, intelligent man addicted to what is apparently opium; his drug-induced craziness is emphasized via closeups and flashback sequences. Indio has a penchant for duels set to the climactic end of the chiming of his timepiece. Van Cleef's character has a personal motive for his actions: his sister, as revealed at the film's end, killed herself while being raped by Indio. Eastwood's character is, as in the other "Man with No Name" films, motivated mainly by money, but also by a sense of justice toward those he likes.
Production
After the box-office success of A Fistful of Dollars in Italy, director Sergio Leone and his new producer, Alberto Grimaldi, wanted to begin production of a sequel, but they needed to get Clint Eastwood to agree to star in it. However, Eastwood had not even seen the first movie at this time, and was not ready to do another until he had. So Leone gave him an Italian print (an English version had not yet been made) and Eastwood brought some friends to screen the film with him at the CBS Production Center. The reaction was positive, and Eastwood agreed to do a sequel.
The film was shot in Almería, Spain, with interiors done at Rome's Cinecittà Studios.
The production designer, Carlo Simi built the town of "El Paso" in the Almería desert: it still exists, as a tourist attraction. The town of Agua Caliente, where Indio and his gang flee after the bank robbery, is Albaricoces, a small "pueblo blanco" on the Nijar plain.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Clint Eastwood | The Man With No Name |
| Lee Van Cleef | Col. Douglas Mortimer (mentioned in the tagline as "The Man in Black") |
| Gian Maria Volontè | El Indio |
| Mara Krupp | Mary (as Mara Krup) |
| Luigi Pistilli | Groggy |
| Klaus Kinski | Wild |
| Joseph Egger | Old Prophet (as Josef Egger) |
| Panos Papadopulos | Sancho Perez (as Panos Papadopoulos) |
| Benito Stefanelli | Luke |
| Roberto Camardiel | Station clerk (as Robert Camardiel) |
| Aldo Sambrell | Cuccillo |
| Luis Rodríguez | Gangmember (as Luis Rodriguez) |
| Tomás Blanco | Santa Cruz Telegrapher (as Tomas Blanco) |
| Lorenzo Robledo | Tomaso |
| Sergio Mendizábal | Tucumcari bank manager (as Sergio Mendizabal) |
Eastwood's character is said to "go by the name of 'Monco'" by a sheriff.[1] "Monco" is a slang term meaning "maimed" or "disfigured". While Eastwood's character is not visibly maimed, he performs nearly all actions using only his left hand, presumably to leave free his right hand, with which he draws his gun. His behaviour thus bears a joking resemblance to that of a one-armed man.
See also
References in other media
- In the video-game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the character Ocelot which was based after Lee Van Cleef, during the chase scene, is using a gun-holder similiar to the one Cleef's character used during the film.
External links
- For a Few Dollars More at IMDb
- Spaghetti-western.net The Spaghetti Western Database
- For a Few Dollars More at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ After killing the man at the start of the film, Mortimer inquires about another outlaw and the sheriff tells him that another bounty hunter has made the same inquiry. This bounty hunter is called Monco (presumably Eastwood).