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For a Few Dollars More (1965)
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Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 21
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: In the second film in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western trilogy (A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS being the first and THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY the last), the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) teams up... In the second film in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western trilogy (A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS being the first and THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY the last), the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) teams up with gunslinger Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) in order to extract reward money from Indio (Gian Maria Volonte), a mean and vicious bandit. There is little doubt as to No Name's financial intentions in the hunt, but Mortimer seems to be driven by something a bit deeper. A series of flashbacks (which would become a Leone signature device) provides the background for Colonel Mortimer's anger and desire for revenge. Morricone's score combined with Leone's trademark long and lingering shots bring the viewer ever closer to the human side of the Man with No Name. Although the film was not released in the United States until 1967, it was produced and released internationally in 1965. [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski, Rosemarie Dexter, Mario Brega, Aldo Sambrell, Luigi Pistilli
Director: Sergio Leone
Director: Sergio Leone
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
Screenwriter: Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone
Composer: Ennio Morricone
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Reviews for For a Few Dollars More
The amoral film should give the less hardy pause as to its relevance or worth or endorsement for vigilante justice.
By introducing the character of Mortimer, Leone is able to counterpoint Eastwood's cold, amoral gunslinger with a man who has a past and a purpose.
The fact that this film is constructed to endorse the exercise of murderers, to emphasize killer bravado and generate glee in frantic manifestations of death is, to my mind, a sharp indictment of it as so-called entertainment in this day.
Here is a gloriously greasy, sweaty, hairy, bloody and violent Western. It is delicious.
Though it's about a half-hour too long, For a Few Dollars More is overall a much more exciting and involving film [than the original].
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