For a Few Dollars More

Original title: Per qualche dollaro in più

1965
R
2h 12m

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8.2/10

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Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in For a Few Dollars More (1965)

Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down an escaped Mexican outlaw.

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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

283K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,186

See production info at IMDbPro

Top rated movie #131

Awards
- 3 nominations total

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

Storyline

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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
[last lines]
Monco: [counting reward sums of outlaws he just killed] Ten thousand... twelve thousand... fifteen... sixteen... seventeen... twenty-two. Twenty-two?
[a wounded Groggy comes from behind and raises his gun; Monco whirls and shoots him dead]
Monco: ...Twenty-seven.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: Any trouble, boy?
Monco: No, old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now.

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

9/10

Worth more than a fistful of dollars

Excellent fun with sadistic humor from Leone. Eastwood's best performance in a Leone film. Van Cleef is good in a role similar to Chuck Bronson's in "Once Upon a Time in the West". He is menacing and sympathetic, whereas in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" he is just campy and all "bad guy" (but still fun). What makes both performances so memorable I think is that Van Cleef seems to be in touch with Leone's dark humor, where Eastwood is used as a straight man. Volonte is also excellent in the bandito role Leone used (an example of a standard European character type who reminds the audience of earthiness and the basic ignorance and greed of man). A much better film than most people who've seen it on a Saturday afternoon on TV probably realize -- you have to see these movies in the theater to get the full hit.