For a Few Dollars More

"The man with no name is back... the man in black is waiting... a walking arsenal - he uncoils, strikes and kills!"

1965 2h 12m IT

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★8.0TMDB · 4,648

Western

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Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

“The man with no name is back... the man in black is waiting... a walking arsenal - he uncoils, strikes and kills!”

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Cast

Clint Eastwood
Manco
Lee Van Cleef
Col. Douglas Mortimer
Gian Maria Volonté
El Indio
Mara Krupp
Mary
Luigi Pistilli
Groggy, Member of Indio's Gang
Klaus Kinski
Juan Wild - The Hunchback
Luis Rodríguez
Manuel, Member of Indio's Gang
Benito Stefanelli
Luke 'Hughie'

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sergio Leone
Writers: Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella
Languages: Italian
Countries: Germany, Italy, Spain

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $0.6M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Grossed $15M — a 25.0× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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3 / 8

ERA

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61 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Germany, Italy, Spain.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sergio Leone, shot by Massimo Dallamano. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Ennio Morricone. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Eugenio Alabiso shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Sergio Leone directs. Massimo Dallamano behind the camera. Ennio Morricone scores. Eugenio Alabiso cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Germany, Italy, Spain. Dialogue in Italian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $0.6M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Grossed $15M — a 25.0× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
361 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4International production across 3 countries: Germany, Italy, Spain.
5Directed by Sergio Leone, shot by Massimo Dallamano. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Ennio Morricone. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Eugenio Alabiso shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The man with no name is back... the man in black is waiting... a walking arsenal - he uncoils, strikes and kills!".
10IMDB entry: tt0059578 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 8 themes, including "bounty hunter", "pot smoking", "rural area", "spaghetti western".
12Released under 19 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Massimo Dallamano
Original score: Ennio Morricone
Editing: Eugenio Alabiso
Costume design: Carlo Simi
Makeup / hair: Amedeo Alessi
Stunt coordinator: Benito Stefanelli
Runtime: 132 min · 2h 12m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $600,000
Box office: $15,000,000
Return: 2500% of budget
Original language: IT
Certification (US): R
IMDB: For a Few Dollars More (1965)

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John Chard2015-11-15
★ 9/10
I was worried about you - all alone, with so many problems to solve... The middle part of Sergio Leone's dollars trilogy sandwich is a mighty hunk of meat and pasta. Plot has Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as bounty hunters who form a very uneasy alliance to bring down violent bandit El Indio (Gian Maria Volontè) and his gang. As befitting Leone in this sub-genre, the pic positively oozes charisma and class. His compositions are as striking as the coolness he wrings out from his lead actors, the characterisations bristling with a calm grizzle factor that beguiles as the story jumps from violence to suspense, from humour to misery, with surprises is store as well. The screenplay adheres to some clichés of the Western formula, but never at a cost to suspense and mystery, such as with the finale that looks set to be formulaic, but joyfully brings its own identity whilst simultaneously adding extra layers to the protags and antag. The dialogue (Leone and Luciano Vincenzoni) pings with literacy, something which is a pleasant mercy in the Spaghetti Western world, while Morricone fills the key scenes with aural shards of atmospheric delight. A great film in its own standalone right, but also a super precursor to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 9/10
r96sk2022-01-10
★ 9/10
I'd rank it slightly below the original, but that's unimportant as <em>'For a Few Dollars More'</em> is still a lot of fun. Clint Eastwood is tremendous again as the lead character, while Gian Maria Volonté reappears as a different character - usually I'm not a fan of actors playing different characters in a series, but I must make an exception here as Volonté is terrific; just as he is in the preceding 1964 film. One newcomer to the cast is Lee Van Cleef, who is brilliant too. A story regarding bounty hunting was always going to be enjoyable, which is most definitely the case here. The aforementioned trio are massively entertaining. I particularly found the ending to be one of the best parts of this. I was excited to check out <em>'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'</em> even prior to watching the first two films, given it's the one I knew most of beforehand, but its two predecessors really have wet the appetite and then some!
drystyx2023-04-18
★ 2/10
This is a waste of some wit. Of the dollar trilogy, this one had some wit to it, but it's wasted. There's an ongoing weird counting that the bounty hunters perform, which finally makes sense in the end. There's an interesting bit about the chimes, and drawing when the chime ends. And we get a name for No Name. But it's wasted on a movie that Leone made during what must have been the days when he really hated some brunette who scorned him. He spends most of the movie contriving so many ways to kill brunettes that he obviously is seeking a Nazi merit badge. He stopped worshiping Adolf and Eva soon after the dollar trilogy, though. There's no way to get past his Nazi ideology in this movie, and it ruins the movie. Not to mention the lack of credible characters and lack of credible motivation. Again, it's a case of everyone in the West is either a homicidal maniac or the first victims of homicidal maniacs, no exceptions. The weakest part, and part that makes anyone with an IQ over 15 groan, is that Leone is not subtle about his message that the more of a homicidal maniac a man is, the more of a demigod he is, and more immortal he is. Only another demigod can kill a demigod, and only a homicidal maniac can be a demigod. It appears the only way to be a god is to be the biggest homicidal maniac. If everyone was like this, there would be no one left to be like this. A waste of wit, which is bad, because this is the only one of the Leone Westerns which made any attempt at wit.