For a Few Dollars More

1967 "The man with no name is back... the man in black is waiting... a walking arsenal - he uncoils, strikes and kills!"
8.2| 2h12m| R| en| More Info
Released: 10 May 1967 Released
Producted By: Constantin Film
Country: Spain
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Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.

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Pjtaylor-96-138044 Set to the tune of what is, for my money, the best musical score of the three 'Man With No Name' pictures and perhaps my favourite western score of all time, this larger-scale sequel is an improvement on the first mainly in terms of its plotting. 'For A Few Dollars More (1965)' casts Eastwood's nameless stranger - who's introductory sequence is one of the best in cinema history - as a dangerous but reckless bounty killer, pairing him with Lee Van Cleef's methodical and sophisticated Colonel as they aim to take down a well-known criminal and pocket the large reward. Van Cleef has a more personal stake in the action whereas Eastwood's in it for the cash and this juxtaposition wisely adds variety to the already well established formula as their uneasy partnership is never as straightforward as it may seem. Along the way we get the blistering confrontations and cool cigar-chewing banter we'd expect from a picture of this calibre. Those stare-downs are just as good as ever and, while there's nothing here quite as intense as the final showdown from the trilogy's first instalment, the feature as a whole is just a lot more fun. 8/10
bkoganbing With the success of A Fistful Of Dollars you knew a sequel had to be made and Clint Eastwood left the small screen for good as Rawhide concluded its run and he was back in Europe for another pasta western with Sergio Leone. Making the trip with Eastwood was Lee Van Cleef and the two play a pair of bounty hunters after the outlaw Gian Maria Volante and his gang of cutthroats. The usual amount of bloody mayhem was dished out by Eastwood, Van Cleef and the gang itself.The treat in this film is watching Eastwood and Van Cleef taking each other's measure and circling around each other like a pair of jungle cats waiting to pounce on each other. It's one uneasy partnership.If you liked A Fistful Of Dollars you will most certainly like For A Few Dollars More. This one solidified Clint Eastwood as a box office draw. As for Van Cleef he got out of supporting ranks and played if not out and out bad guys, certainly rather sardonic good guys for the most part in the rest of his career.Another heaping helping of pasta.
merelyaninnuendo Per qualche dollaro in piùAs always Sergio Leone takes too much time in making a point which takes away the interest no matter how intriguing the plot is, but besides that it is well crafted.
Bezenby Second time out, Leone scores top marks. The build up to gunfights are more drawn out and stylized, the cackling has been amped up a notch, the ridiculously accurate marksmanship reaches surreal levels, and Leone isn't in a hurry to do anything, marrying silence or Morricone's soundtrack with scenes where people just stare at each other, smoke, or lead horses through sudden rainburst. This is third in the top twenty films on the Spaghetti Western database, only beaten by the next two films Leone directed! Van Cleef plays Col. Mortimer, a bounty hunter with an arsenal of weapons used for taking out the bad guys. He gets particularly riled when he spots a wanted poster for Indio (Volonte), a dope smoking bank robber who has just been busted out of jail. Mortimer's going to find out that he's not the only hunter on Indio's tail, as the Man With No Name (called Manko here) is also out to get that bounty.It takes about an hour for the above paragraph to happen, but you won't care. In that time we find that Indio is holding a dark secret he keeps at bay with drugs, and has something to do with that pocket watch he carries. We also get to see that the Bounty Hunters are just as deadly as the bad guys too, and there's a kind of battle of the wills going on between Eastwood and Van Cleef.This film is exactly what you want from a Spaghetti Western. Reality goes out of the window and instead you get a film where men can stop and start spurs spinning by shooting them, or continually shoot a hat up into the air, or light a match off of Klaus Kinski's hump. It's all look amazing too, thanks to Massimo Dallamano's cinematography, which looks like an oil painting (he does the same in his own Western, Bandidos).Luigi Pistilli stands out in this one too, as one of the smarter members of Indio's gang, which is maybe why he's got a bigger role in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Of course Klaus Kinski appears in more Spaghetti Westerns than anyone else, including The Fighting Fists Of Shanghai Joe, His Name Is King, And God Said To Cain, (continues listing films)