For A Few Dollars More

Action, Drama, Thriller, Western

Clint Eastwood	The Man With No Name
Lee Van Cleef	Col. Douglas Mortimer
Gian Maria Volonté	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
Benito Stefanelli	Indio's Gang
Mario Meniconi	First Man
Gian Maria
Mario Brega	Nino
Aldo Sambrell	Cuccilio
Mara Krupp	Mary
Lorenzo Robledo	Tomaso
Gian Maria Volontè	El Indio
Joseph Egger	Old Prophet
Panos Papadopulos	Sancho Perez
Roberto Camardiel	Station clerk
Tomás Blanco
Dante Maggio
Sergio Mendizábal

Director	Sergio Leone
Producer	Alberto Grimaldi; Arturo González; Alfredo Fraile
Writer	Peter Fernandez; Luciano Vincenzoni; Fulvio Morsella; Sergio Leone

A ringing instance of a sequel far outstripping its predecessor, Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More takes the lethal antihero from A Fistful of Dollars, gives him both a rival and an adversary worthy of sharing a gun-blazing corrida, and ratchets up the stylization to something approaching grandeur. This time the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) is a bounty hunter whose desert Southwest killing ground is suddenly crowded by the presence of an older, black-clad shootist (Lee Van Cleef). Individually and together, they terminate sundry grotesques while closing in on their biggest quarry, a memorably insane bandit called El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté is brilliant). There's just enough plot to imbue Van Cleef with genuine mystery, a dark avenging angel from a lost past whose pull would supply the emotional core of Leone's later masterworks Once upon a Time in the West and Once upon a Time in America. Leone's bravura widescreen compositions are breathtaking, and Ennio Morricone's music score--tinged with lunatic religiosity--is his first great one. --Richard T. Jameson