For a Few Dollars More
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| Directed by | Sergio Leone |
| Produced by | Arturo González |
| Written by | Fulvio Montella Sergio Leone Luciano Vincenzoni |
| Starring | Clint Eastwood Lee van Cleef Gian Maria Volonté |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Distributed by | United Artists (USA) |
| Release date(s) |  December 18, 1965 May 10, 1967 |
| Running time | 130 min. |
| Language | Italian |
| Preceded by | A Fistful of Dollars |
| Followed by | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
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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.
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[edit] 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 on a sequel. In order to do this, they would have 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.
[edit] Plot
Eastwood (as a bounty hunter marketed as the "Man with No Name" even though Van Cleef's character says he is "named Monco"[1]) and Van Cleef (as Colonel Douglas Mortimer) portray two paid killers 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). El Indio is a ruthless, intelligent man addicted to what is apparently marijuana; his drug-induced craziness is emphasized via closeups and flashback sequences. 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 El Indio. Eastwood 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.
[edit] Trivia
- 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.
- In the U.S., the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood's character in all three films as Man with No Name.
- Lee Van Cleef's character was mentioned in the tagline as "The Man in Black."
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- For a Few Dollars More at the Internet Movie Database
- www.spaghetti-western.net The Spaghetti Western Database
- For a Few Dollars More at Rotten Tomatoes
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Films by Sergio Leone
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| Il Colosso di Rodi •A Fistful of Dollars • For a Few Dollars More • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Once Upon a Time in the West • A Fistful of Dynamite • Once Upon a Time in America |
