For a Few Dollars More (Per Qualche Dollaro in Più)
(R, 2:11:43, Released 1965)
| Genres: | Action & Adventure, Western, Art House & International, Classics |
| Release Date: | Dec 18, 1965 |
| DVD Release Date: | Jul 28, 1998 |
| Starring: | Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté, Mara Krupp, Luigi Pistilli, Klaus Kinski, Josef Egger, Panos Papadopulos, Aldo Sambrell, Mario Brega |
| Directed by: | Sergio Leone |
| Synopsis: | Two rival bounty hunters form a shaky alliance to capture a wanted bandit. |
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December 24, 2009
one of the best movies ever
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December 24, 2009
A minor but still fully enjoyable Leone with his joyful trademarks to smile for.
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December 19, 2009
The 2nd in the trilogy and in my opinion better than the first.
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December 17, 2009
The middle one in the MAN WITH NO NAME Serge Leone spaghetti western trilogy. This time Clint Eastwood plays a sharpshooting naive bounty hunter, second fiddle to Lee van Cleefs older and wiser bounty-hunter-with-a-hidden-mssion as they both go after baddy outlaw Gian Maria Volonte. The storyline's not as gripping as Fistful of Dollars, and its not as eyes-bugging-out brilliant as The Good The Bad and the Ugly, but if its not a classic, it's still pretty damn classy.
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December 11, 2009
For a Few Dollars More is an improvement over A Fistful of Dollars in every way (except for the music-it's still just as perfect). This is the second best film in the trilogy. It has all the strengths but none of the weakness of Fistful, yet isn't quite (emphasis on quite) the masterpiece that The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is. Leone really hit his stride with this film (stylistically) and just got better. Clint once again gives a great performance, but so do Van Cleef and Volonte. These movies make me really want to be apart of the time period they depict- they make it look so cool.
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November 28, 2009
another brilliant spagetti western... i still think the good, the bad and the ugly is the best though
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November 25, 2009
Sergio Leone made a perfect trilogy, each one bettering the one before. Eastwood is at the top of his game and the introduction of Lee Van Cleef's character is cinema at its best. I tend not to write too much about my favourite films as I never feel I do them justice, just watch and enjoy film fans!
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November 14, 2009
This time Eastwood is named Monco. He's not the only man with no name though really. I find it interesting that the same handful of actors appear throughout this trilogy, but except for Eastwood who maintains his iconic costume, everyone else plays new characters unrelated to their other portrayal(s). Everyone has no name except for how the surrounding plot or circumstances define them. Van Cleef makes his first appearance as a rival bounty hunter, though his Bad character in Good, Bad, and Ugly seems definitive since I saw it prior to this. Volonte makes his second appearance as a bank robbing, gang leading bandit with a tortured soul. These three leads are excellent and again Good, Bad, and Ugly seems more definitive, but the showdown at the end in this one was the first.
The story just didn't feel as powerful in this one. There were some strange coincidences in the plot and the holes made it a bit more confusing. There seemed like there was something a little off with some of the sound effects and voice over dubbing compared to the other two films. Though the watch that played the little tune made for a great musical theme in this second part of the trilogy. -
November 2, 2009
A must see Classic that inspires many a cowboy.
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November 1, 2009
A Masterpiece.
This has to be by new favorite western.
I was so surprised on how great this film was.
It has a great villlian, great chracters and a very interesting plot with some twists. The music is also moving, its got more feeling to it, like its sad or something.
Clint Eastwood was great as always but Gian Maria Volonte and Lee Van Cleef steal the show .
Unlike Sergio Leone's other westerns, I think the length of this film is just right. It's 2 hrs and 10 minutes long. It's not too long or too short. The pace of the film is just right.
Great movie. -
October 24, 2009
You eill love any Clint Eastwood western
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October 22, 2009
In his second film of the Dollar Trilogy, Leone starts to polish his stylish direction in a more skilful manner and manages to use a great cast and many unforgettable scenes and dialogues to create a splendid western opera.
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October 16, 2009
excellent surtout la fin avec les cadavres dans le chariot
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October 12, 2009
This is an excellent movie.The action scenes are very well done.This movie is yet another Clint Eastwood classic.
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September 24, 2009
Continuing my Leone project, I gave this a look tonight, only to realize that I may've never seen it before at all. Nothing about it seemed familiar, but it was interesting to see Eastwood play off Lee Van Cleef, and the cinematography and score are top notch.
Recommended. -
September 23, 2009
"When the chimes end, pick up your gun. Go ahead and shoot me Colonel. Just try."
Two bounty hunters with completely different intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.REVIEW
Many consider this film the most perfectly realized of Leone's trilogy, though I prefer the grander sweep of The Good The Bad and The Ugly. This is the best film in the series to start with, though, being slightly more polished than Fistful Of Dollars, and it's easier to follow as a template of the Leone style.
Contrary to popular critical opinion, this is definitely not a 'revisionist' western. What Leone has done has stripped the traditional western story down to its essential elements and flipped it. Basically, this is an ordinary western saga seen through a distorted (or clearer, depending on your viewpoint) lens. All westerns were generally made with the same characteristics, that is, a good guy and a bad guy. The good guy was simple: a lawman or rancher protecting something. The bad guy was usually the more interesting one. Leone made the so called 'good guy' more interesting, and more vicious than the villain. The story becomes the mirror image of the American Western, reflected from the deserts of Spain.
Eastwood, despite the dispute of others, is "The Man With No Name", and it's not only his identity that's unknown, it's his motives, his purpose, his origin. He's the focal point of the story, even though here he spends a lot of background time, letting Van Cleef and the others stand out in many striking scenes. This is Leone's genius at work. We never forget Eastwood is there, somewhere.
The two great characteristics of the trilogy are the close-ups and the music. These are better done here than in the others. Seeing this film for the first time, I was struck by the faces, which seemed to jump out of the screen from another place and time, definitely not the west of "Gunsmoke". The soundtrack, both stirring and haunting, will be celebrated a century from now. But the most amazing thing about this movie is that a film created on another continent and with a cast and crew of mostly Europeans is considered one of the greatest American Westerns. -
September 16, 2009
Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef teaming up is an alliance I would NOT want to be on the other side of. This entry was pretty much as good as the first, except that one was a little tighter, length-wise. Not that this was long by any means.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is all I have left and after these two, it's gonna be hard to be "the best".
It should be illegal to be as badass as Clint Eastwood...
Except no one would be able to arrest him. -
September 12, 2009
Breathtakingly good spaghetti western with icon Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. The second entry in the trilogy and the second best.
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September 11, 2009
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September 11, 2009
Great movie, with lean mean characters.
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September 8, 2009
Just as good as the original. Eastwood continues to be the original badass anti-hero of cinema.
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September 1, 2009
great music great partnership with lee van cleef
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August 25, 2009
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August 17, 2009
Here we go with Part Two. For A Few Dollars More is largely more of the same stuff that Leone delivered in Fistful of Dollars, but amped up a bit. The Man With No Name is back, but this time he's a "bounty killer", a freelance gunner out to make a quick buck taking down some two-bit murderers and robbers and collecting the rewards. It's a cutthroat industry though, and he's put up against another expert bounty killer with a prestigious reputation, Col. Mortimer played by Lee Van Cleef. It would've been easy for this second film to fall flat on its face by repeating the formula and dragging its feet through the mud, but one of the most genius moves by Leone towards keeping the formula fresh was introducing the protagnoist rivalry displayed between Manco and Mortimer. Van Cleef is fun as hell to watch, and Mortimer is a rival to The Man With No Name in almost every respect. His prosperity and higher class appearance puts him at immediate odds with the vagrant look of Eastwood, but as the two form their partnership to take down El Indio and share the massive bounty on the heads of him and his gang, the twos chemistry in their characters plays off each other. But they each have their methods and boundaries, and in the fantastically climactic ending, they each have their motives as well, and that's what in the end sets them apart, keeps them from being clones of each other, and allows us to stick with The Man With No Name as our preferred anti-hero. The baddies get badder in this sequel as well. El Indio is ruthless and blood thirsty, and his gang has bigger personality and more on the line. Of course all of this isn't to say that For A Few Dollars More tops its predecessor. It simply manages to tread water hard enough to stay afloat after the exhaustion of pumping its foundings through the first two hours we viewed in A Fistful of Dollars. It gets a little bit grander, but stays mostly the same. The triumphant themes of Ennio Morricone still waltz through the background, building instruments on top of instruments until the haunting melodies bring to mind both the Man With No Name's lone-wolf-cool-guy persona as well as the inner turmoil which must explode within a man when his life is on the line. The movie runs a little bit longer, and at points, it feels like it. Characters like the inn-keepers horny wife seem superfluous and time wasting, but they're still worth a little chuckle in the end. Point is, For A Few Dollars more is epic, entertaining, and beautiful. A fine spaghetti western in the Leone tradition that pits American film tradition against the iconization of that tradition, and combines them under the watchful eye of a visual master.
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August 15, 2009
Preferi os outros dois da trilogia, mas não deixa de ser um ótimo western.
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August 13, 2009
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
This is my most favorite of spaghetti westerns. It's much shorter in length than "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", while the action is much better and the story is tighter. Obviously Sergio Leone's direction and of course Ennio Morricone's wonderful score make this a memorable movie.
The young Monco (Clint Eastwood) and the older, wiser, Colonel Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) are both competing Bounty Killers, good at what they do, who reluctantly join forces to go after El Indio (Gian Volonté) and his gang of blood-thirsty desperadoes.
Indio has planned a big bank robbery in El Paso and it is here where the two bounty killers sneak into the gang. Col. Mortimer has another reason for getting Indio besides the money on Indio's head. -
August 8, 2009
Classic, no self respecting western fan should go without seeing this one... 100 times
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July 30, 2009
Saw it at the peak of my clint eastwood craziness era.
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July 18, 2009
Second in the trilogy and the second best. Not as classic as the Good the Bad and the Ugly but a classic all the same. The music and action is top rate as usual. Morricone can do no wrong haha Van Cleef adds real quality and the bounty hunter element is great story material, fits Van Cleef to a tea. The sequences where Cleef and Eastwood take down individual criminals at the start is pure western gold, its also alittle more sadistic and violent in this chapter, for its time anyway. Lastly check Klaus Kinski as the hunchback, thats a character :)
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July 7, 2009
This is another awesome movie. It's typical Clint Eastwood shoot em up style. Mister Van Cleef is pretty good with a firearm.
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July 4, 2009
yes! of course ! because Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef alchemy will always rule westerns ;)
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June 29, 2009
I preffered a fist full of dollars slightly more. Clint is amazing again, I loved the music its genius and the ending had very good tension.
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June 22, 2009
2nd in classic trilogy
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June 20, 2009
Sergio Leone made the best westerns, I think. I just don't get why he'd use the same actors from his previous films in different roles. I mean Gian Maria Volonte played the villain in a Fistful of Dollars and here he's back looking exactly the same even though he's in a different role. While Lee Van Cleef and Eastwood worked great together in this film as partners, Cleef in back in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly but as the villain. So I found that confusing, I guess the 3 movies aren't really a trilogy though.
Since Eastwood's character has no name in all 3 films, maybe he's not even supposed to be the same guy in all of them, I don't know lol. What I do know, is that the movies are entertaining. The direction in all of them are perfect, the plots unwind well and the musical scores are awesome. -
June 18, 2009
A spectacular western by Sergio Leone starring Clint Eastwood and veteran Hollywood villain Lee Van Cleef as a good guy. The poncho clad hero is out to capture El Idio (Gian Maria Volonte) and his evil gang of robbers. Lensed on location in scenic Spain. Lots of bloodthirsty violence and another memorable Ennio Morricone soundtrack.
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June 10, 2009
It has a lot of style, but the substance, i.e. the plot, is there as well. Although Leone once again suggests that life on the west was only about breaking and defending both the law and a limited set of human values, here he offers an interesting story with some truly unforgettable sequences.
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June 10, 2009
has one of the best gun fight scene of any western, worth watching just for that,
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June 9, 2009
The man with no name returns in the 2nd part of The Dollars Trilogy. More Spaghetti Western goodness from director Sergio Leone.
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June 7, 2009
Clint Eastwood is the man when it comes to westerns...As always excellent
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June 3, 2009
Ass-kicking Clint Eastwood meets ass-kicking Lee Van Cleef. Enemies at first, friends later. BORING !!! We've seen that happening in many films (dramas, in particular). Show us something new for God's sake! Clint is a cool cowboy, we know. But does it have to be like that in every bleeding movie of the trilogy? The bad guy ends up being a good guy and helps the other good guy. The credit goes to Moriccone for the awesome theme and to Clint for being "ultracool and ultragood". But Leone does the same old stuff he did in the first movie of the trilogy. Trying to preserve the legend of the old West (later ruined by Sam Peckinpah) has never been so easy.
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June 2, 2009
This was much better then the previous one, which was also excellent. Lee Van Cleef gets probably one of his first "good" roles and both him and Clint are fantastic.
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May 27, 2009
It is my favorite movie with Lee Van Cleef in it.
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May 12, 2009
Clint Eastwood is the master of westerns
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May 10, 2009
sequel to "a fistful of dollar" and clint eastwood play as man-with-no-name back to the sequel and add the new cast lee van cleef as a mortimer for the partner bounty hunter with man-with-no-name.
next sequel in "the good, the bad, and the ugly" who reprise clint eastwood and the spaghetti western sergio leone all the trilogy. -
May 7, 2009
Exellent sequel to Fist. And better. Possibly my favorite Eastwood western. At least tied with The Good The Bad. Lee Van Cleef adds that extra bit of coolness to this classic. And if i recall Klaus Kinski plays the Hunchback Cleef lights his match off of. Classic scene.
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May 1, 2009
this movie is proof that if you think you've killed clint eastwood but you're not sure, it means you didn't........and he's going to shoot you.....a lot.
