For a Few Dollars More (Per Qualche Dollaro in Più) (1965)
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94% of critics liked it
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This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing "Man With No Name." Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture… More This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing "Man With No Name." Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal bandit Indio (Gian Maria Volontè). Both the Eastwood and Van Cleef characters are given understandable motivations for their bloodletting tendencies, something that was lacking in A Fistful of Dollars. In both films, however, the violence is raw and uninhibited -- and in many ways, curiously poetic. Leone's tense, tight close-ups, pregnant pauses, and significant silences have since been absorbed into the standard spaghetti Western lexicon; likewise, Ennio Morricone's haunting musical score has been endlessly imitated and parodied. For a Few Dollars More was originally titled Per Qualche Dollaro in Più; it would be followed by the last and best of the Man with No Name trilogy, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sergio Leone
- Written By
- Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone
- Genres
- Western, Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Classics
- In Theaters
- Dec 18, 1965 Wide
- On DVD
- Jul 28, 1998
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Leone's artful editing of close-ups to communicate the characters' spatial relationships is always a pleasure.
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Variety Staff, Variety
A hard-hitting western with upper-case values out of the busy Italo stable, this is a topnotch action entry.
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Geoff Andrew, Time Out
A significant step forward from A Fistful of Dollars, with the usual terrific compositions, Morricone score, and taciturn performances, not to mention the ubiquitous flashback disease.
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Bosley Crowther, New York Times
The fact that this film is constructed to endorse the exercise of murderers, to emphasize killer bravado and generate glee in frantic manifestations of death is, to my mind, a sharp indictment of it as so-called entertainment in this day.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Here is a gloriously greasy, sweaty, hairy, bloody and violent Western. It is delicious.
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Cast
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Clint Eastwood
as The Man With No Name
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Lee Van Cleef
as Col. Douglas Mortimer
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Gian Maria Volonté
as El Indio
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Joseph Egger
as The Old Man
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Mara Krup
as Hotel Manager's Wife
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Rosemary Dexter
as Colonel's sister
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Luigi Pistilli
as Indio's Gang
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Klaus Kinski
as The Hunchback
- Tomas Blanco
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Mario Brega
as First Man
- Roberto Camardiel
- Dante Maggio
- Sergio Mendizabal
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Aldo Sambrell
as Member of Indio's Gang
- Panos Papadopoulos
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Benito Stefanelli
as Indio's Gang
- Giovanni Tarallo
- Werner Abrolat
- Mario Meniconi
- Kurt Zips



