FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE

'''For a Few Dollars More''' (Italian: '''Per qualche dollaro in più''') is a 1965 spaghetti western 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.

Contents

Story

Production

Cast

Characters

Monco

El Indio

Colonel Douglas Mortimer

References in other media

External links

Story

Eastwood (marketed as the "Man with No Name") and Van Cleef (as Colonel Douglas Mortimer and marketed as "The Man in Black") portray two bounty hunters 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). Indio is a ruthless, intelligent man addicted to marijuana His drug-induced craziness is emphasized via closeups and flashbacks of the past. Indio has a penchant for duels set to the climactic end of the chiming of his timepiece. 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 Indio, after he killed her husband moments before. Eastwood's character 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.

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 of a sequel, but they needed 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.
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.

Cast

Actor	Role
Clint Eastwood	The Man With No Name
Lee Van Cleef	Col. Douglas Mortimer (mentioned in the tagline as "The Man in Black")
Gian Maria Volontè	El Indio
Mara Krupp	Mary (as Mara Krup)
Luigi Pistilli	Groggy
Klaus Kinski	Wild
Joseph Egger	Old Prophet (as Josef Egger)
Panos Papadopulos	Sancho Perez (as Panos Papadopoulos)
Benito Stefanelli	Luke
Roberto Camardiel	Station clerk (as Robert Camardiel)
Aldo Sambrell	Cuccillo
Luis Rodríguez	Gangmember (as Luis Rodriguez)
Tomás Blanco	Santa Cruz Telegrapher (as Tomas Blanco)
Lorenzo Robledo	Tomaso
Sergio Mendizábal	Tucumcari bank manager (as Sergio Mendizabal)

Characters

Monco

Eastwood's character is said to "go by the name of 'Monco'".^[1] "Monco" is a slang term meaning "maimed" or "disfigured". While Eastwood's character is not maimed, he performs nearly all actions using only his left hand, to leave free his right hand, with which he draws. His behaviour thus bears a joking resemblance to that of a one-armed man.

El Indio

'El Indio' (Spanish for "The Indian") played by Gian Maria Volonté is a ruthless character, considered by the authorities in the film to be one of the worst criminals of the times; according to a bank official "Not even Indio would dare to rob that one." In a flashback sequence it is revealed that he shot his partner and then raped his partner's sister. The girl shot herself in the process. He smokes cannabis to ease the intensity of the memory. In the film El Indio has a gang of 14 men who rob the bank at El Paso.
El Indio has a twisted form of killing his enemies in a gun-duel. Using a musical locket he took from his partner's sister, he states to his opponents that they can both fire when the chimes end. El Indio, tormented by these chimes, has an advantage over opponents. In the film he uses this against three opponents; a former bandit who betrayed him, a member of his gang who he frames for having let Colonel Mortimer and 'Monco' (The Man With No Name) escape, and finally on Colonel Mortimer himself. In the last gun duel however it is clear that Mortimer also knows the chimes as he possesses the other locket, revealing the young girl as his sister and himself as the partner Indio shot and left for dead.

Colonel Douglas Mortimer

Colonel Douglas Mortimer is a rival bounty hunter, though he is much older than Eastwood's character. He thinks his actions through and is referred to as a walking arsenal in the movie's theatrical trailers. He wears all black and smokes a pipe, as opposed to The Man with No Name who dons a brown poncho and smokes cigars. These two men cross paths in their quest for El Indio, though their motivations are quite different. Whereas Eastwood's character desires to collect the bounty on El Indio and his gang, it is eventually revealed by the end of the film that Mortimer sought revenge for his sister, who committed suicide while being raped by El Indio.

References in other media

★ In the video-game , Revolver Ocelot, a character based on Lee Van Cleef, fixes a stock to his Single Action Army revolver during the game's climactic chase scene. Cleef's character used a stock-affixed Single Action Army in this film as well.

★ In the Terry Pratchett novel "Men At Arms", The character of Captain Samuel Vimes is to be presented with a pocket watch as a retirement gift. In the climactic scene where Vimes confronts the main villain of the story, Corporal Carrot uses the musical chime of the watch to prevent Vimes from killing the villain. Pratchett has confirmed that it is supposed to be the same chime as the pocket watch in "For a Few Dollars More".

External links

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★ ''For a Few Dollars More'' at the Spaghetti Western Database

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