For a Few Dollars More

Original title: Per qualche dollaro in più

1965
R
2h 12m

IMDb RATING

8.2/10

281K

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One-Person Army Action Spaghetti Western Drama Western

Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to track down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to track down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to track down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.

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IMDb RATING

8.2/10

281K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,218

174

See production info at IMDbPro

Top rated movie #131

Awards
- 3 nominations

Old Prophet
(as Josef Egger)

Tomás Blanco

Tucumcari sheriff
(as Tomas Blanco)

Lorenzo Robledo

Tomaso, Indio's Traitor

Dante Maggio

Carpenter in cell with El Indio

Sergio Mendizábal

Tucumcari bank manager
(as Sergio Mendizabal)

Diana Rabito

Callaway's beautiful girl in tub

Giovanni Tarallo

Santa Cruz telegraphist

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Trivia
"Monco" is officially not the same character as "Joe" in A Fistful of Dollars (1964). This was the finding of an Italian court that adjudicated the lawsuit brought by Jolly Films, producer of A Fistful of Dollars. After the release of that movie, writer and director Sergio Leone had a falling out with the producers and made this movie with a different producer, Alberto Grimaldi. Jolly Films sued, claiming ownership of the "Joe" character, but lost when the court decided that the western gunfighter's persona, characterized by the costume and mannerisms, belonged to the public domain's folklore.

Goofs
When Mortimer is browsing in the local newspaper all pages are identical.

He was browsing in the tear sheets of the newspaper's morgue where they keep back issues. They were bound in hardcovers. There was more than one copy of each.

Quotes
[first title card]
Title card: Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

Crazy credits
The title credits disappear as if being shot by a gun.

Alternate versions
The British cinema release version was cut by the BBFC to shorten the beating scene after a few punches and to completely remove the second flashback sequence where Mortimer's sister shoots herself to avoid a possible rape. Although all UK video and original DVD releases contained these scenes, the 2005 Special Edition DVD was missing around 20 secs from the beating (which ends abruptly and without the dialogue exchange between Indio and Groggy).

Connections
Edited into My Name Is Pecos (1966)

Soundtracks
For A Few Dollars More
(uncredited)
Composed by Ennio Morricone

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Featured review

10/10

Not as good as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly but better than A Fistful of Dollars

Just for the record I happen to love all three films. For a Few Dollard More is an amazing film though perhaps not as influential as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. There is one improvement over that film though, and that is the writing of Clint Eastwood's character, more developed and more compelling. A Fistful of Dollars is also great because of everything that makes TGTBATU and FAFDM so good, but I do consider the other two more influential on the genre and also Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which used the film as its inspiration, to be the superior film. Back to A Few Dollars More, the stylised visuals are stunning to look at, the scenery is the very definition of epic and the cinematography sweeps. Ennio Morricone's score is both elegiac and operatic in tone and the story of greed and revenge that focuses mainly on the pursuit of bandit Indio draws you right in and never lets go. The dialogue is peppered with grit and dark humour, which is well-balanced with neither over-powering the other, while Leone's direction is superb. Clint Eastwood plays his more developed character with immense charisma, Lee Van Cleef is suitably vengeful and again Gian Maria Volonte snarls convincingly. Overall, a wonderful film. 10/10 Bethany Cox