For a Few Dollars More (1965)
"Per qualche dollaro in più" (original title)

Two bounty hunters with the same intentions, team up to track down a Western outlaw.

Director:

Sergio Leone

Writers:

Sergio Leone (scenario), Fulvio Morsella (scenario),

Stars:

Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Clint Eastwood	...	Monco
Lee Van Cleef	...	Col. Douglas Mortimer
Gian Maria Volonté	...	El Indio (The Indian) (as Gian Maria Volontè)
Mario Brega	...	Nino, Member of Indio's Gang
Luigi Pistilli	...	Groggy, Member of Indio's Gang
Aldo Sambrell	...	Cuchillio
Klaus Kinski	...	Juan Wild - The Hunchback
Benito Stefanelli	...	Luke 'Hughie'
Luis Rodríguez	...	Manuel, Member of Indio's Gang (as Luis Rodriguez)
Panos Papadopulos	...	Sancho Perez, Member of Indio's Gang (as Panos Papadopoulos)
Mara Krupp	...	Mary - Hotel Manager's Beautiful Wife (as Mara Krup)
Roberto Camardiel	...	Tucumcari station clerk (as Robert Camardiel)
Joseph Egger	...	Old Prophet (as Josef Egger)
Tomás Blanco	...	Tucumcari sheriff (as Tomas Blanco)
Lorenzo Robledo	...	Tomaso, Indio's Traitor

Storyline

Two bounty hunters are after the same man, Indio. At first, they go their own ways, but eventually get together to try and find him. But are they after him for the same reason ?

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Plot Keywords:

bounty hunter | jail break | alliance | disarming someone | opening action scene | 

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Taglines:

The man with no name is back.

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Genres:

Western

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

Italy Spain West Germany

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

10 May 1967 (USA)

Also Known As:

For a Few Dollars More

Filming Locations:

Almería Railway Station, Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Box Office

Budget:

$600,000 (estimated)

Gross:

ESP 274,756,312 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Constantin Film Produktion, Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA), Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas

Technical Specs

Runtime:

132 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

On its 1969 re-release it was double-billed with Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars).

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Goofs

Tucumcari wasn't founded until 1901.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Train Conductor: Tickets. Tickets, please. Tickets. Tickets. Thank you. Tickets.

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Crazy Credits

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

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Connections

Spoofed in Straight to Hell (1987)

User Reviews

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.