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For A Few Dollars More
1965
Second of Sergio Leone and Eastwood's "Spaghetti Westerns" and "Dollar" trilogy (A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS being the first and THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY the last). The Man With No Name (Eastwood) teams up with a gunslinger (Van Cleef) in order to extract reward money from Volonte, a vicious bandit. There is little doubt to .. Read more
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Klaus Kinski, Mario Brega |
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| Director | Sergio Leone |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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For A Few Dollars More
Second of Sergio Leone and Eastwood's "Spaghetti Westerns" and "Dollar" trilogy (A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS being the first and THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY the last). The Man With No Name (Eastwood) teams up with a gunslinger (Van Cleef) in order to extract reward money from Volonte, a vicious bandit. There is little doubt to Eastwood's financial intentions in the hunt but Van Cleef seems to be driven by something a bit deeper. A series of flashbacks (which would become a Leone signature device) provides the background for Van Cleef'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.
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Klaus Kinski, Mario Brega, Gian Maria Volonte, Mara Krup, Luigi Pistilli |
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| Director | Sergio Leone |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 11 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Dutch, English, French |
| Released | DVD: 07 Feb 2000 Production year: 1965 |
| Format | DVD |
For A Few Dollars More (1965)
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The second instalment of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy is the best and most influential of the three. Honing the stylised visuals and dark humour of the original, Leone takes this opportunity to develop such future genre staples as the uneasy alliance against a common foe and the three-way shoot-out. But, while the pursuit of bandit Gian Maria Volonté by bounty hunters Clint Eastwood (motivated by greed) and Lee Van Cleef (driven by revenge) forms the core of the action, it's the attention to everyday detail and the symbols of a passing era (religion and the railroad) that give this operatic classic its distinctive aura.
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Vague, inflated, sometimes good-looking sequel to A Fistful of Dollars, with customary violence and predictably mean performances.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Spaghetti Polonaise
The second instalment is in many ways superior to the first, with Leone clearly gaining in confidence between the two films. As a result, part two of the trilogy has a simpler narrative, and is longer, allowing Leone more space to develop what became his trademarks of long scenes with swirling music and camerawork, at times balletic and operatic.
Clint is once again tremendous in a role more about physical presence than dialogue, and is joined by a worthwhile companion in Lee Van Cleef, who of course reappears in the final episode too.
Once again, Leone has abandoned the traditional Western's moral simplicities and given us something that, while clearly aware of good and evil, often blurs the boundaries between the two, and gives us an overall sense of human misery and degradation.
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'For A Few Dollars More'
CLASSIC eastwood Western, I forgot just how good they are, going to rent them all
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