Movies:
For a Few Dollars More
DVD Release: For a Few Dollars More
- Release Date: 1998
- Eight-page booklet featuring trivia, production notes, and a look at the making of the film
- Original theatrical trailer
DVD Release: For a Few Dollars More [Collector's Edition] [2 Discs]
- Release Date: 2007
- "A New Standard": Sir Christopher Frayling on For a Few Dollars More
- "Back for More": Clint Eastwood remembers For a Few Dollars More
- "Tre Voci": Three friends remember Sergio Leone
- "For a Few Dollars More: The Original American Release Version Comparison" featurette
- "Location Comparison Then to Now": Film clips intercut with current footage of the locations used
- Restored and remastered film
- Commentary by noted film historian Sir Christopher Frayling
- 12 radio spots
- Original theatrical trailer
- Rating:
- Genre: Western
- Movie Type: Spaghetti Western
- Themes: Lone Wolves, Bounty Hunters, Criminal's Revenge
- Director: Sergio Leone
- Main Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Josef Egger, Mara Krup
- Release Year: 1965
- Country: IT/ES/WG
- Run Time: 127 minutes
Plot
This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing "Man With No Name." Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal bandit Indio (Gian Maria Volontè). Both the Eastwood and Van Cleef characters are given understandable motivations for their bloodletting tendencies, something that was lacking in A Fistful of Dollars. In both films, however, the violence is raw and uninhibited -- and in many ways, curiously poetic. Leone's tense, tight close-ups, pregnant pauses, and significant silences have since been absorbed into the standard spaghetti Western lexicon; likewise, Ennio Morricone's haunting musical score has been endlessly imitated and parodied. For a Few Dollars More was originally titled Per Qualche Dollaro in Più; it would be followed by the last and best of the Man with No Name trilogy, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideReview
Produced between 1964 and 1966, the films in director Sergio Leone's Man with No Name trilogy -- A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- were not released in America until 1967. The rapid succession of releases belied Leone's significant growth between each installment. Though A Fistful of Dollars was skillful and original, the production values were notoriously cheap and the characters were not fully realized. For a Few Dollars More improves on just about every aspect of the previous film, honing the mythic quality of the players. Leone elevates his style to another level; his operatic vision is in full flower here. Though clearly performing in the same minimalist style, Clint Eastwood significantly masters the subtleties of his gritty, nihilistic character. Watch for famed German actor Klaus Kinski as the hunchback who has a match struck on his neck by Lee Van Cleef. ~ Brendon Hanley, All Movie GuideCast
- Clint Eastwood - The Man With No Name
- Lee Van Cleef - Col. Douglas Mortimer
- Gian Maria Volontè - El Indio
- Josef Egger - The Old Man
- Mara Krup - Hotel Manager's Wife
Rosemarie Dexter - Colonel's sister; Luigi Pistilli - Indio's Gang; Klaus Kinski - The Hunchback; Tomas Blanco; Mario Brega - First Man; Roberto Camardiel; Dante Maggio; Sergio Mendizabal; Aldo Sambrell - Member of Indio's Gang; Panos Papadopoulos; Benito Stefanelli - Indio's Gang; Giovanni Tarallo; Werner Abrolat; Mario Meniconi; Kurt Zips
