For A Few Dollars More (DVD)

Made in 1965 this is the second instalment of Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti western'Dollars' trilogy sarted in 1964 with 'A Fistful of Dollars' and featuring Clint Eastwood as the 'man with no name'. ***BACKGROUND*** After the success of 'Fistful of Dollars' (previously reviewed 29.11.01) Leone embarked on a follow-up, not exactly a sequel, with a bigger budget of $600,000 and greater ambition. Eastwood was re-hired to again play the role of 'the stranger' the man with no name, for a fee of $50,000, a Ferrari and a share of the film's takings. Gian Maria Volonte who had almost stolen the show in ...  Read the complete review

The surprising success of A Fistful of Dollars in 1964 was a wake-up call for many other Italian film makers. The stylish, violent and devil-may-care attitude of filmmaking was something that hit hard in the Italian film industry and many directors were ready to jump on the bandwagon to produce similarly themed and stylised westerns of their own, though the real boom didn't properly get underway until 1966. But A Fistful of Dollars had shown something new and fresh, something that was different to what westerns of the past and the old great role models, the American westerns, had provided. It brought out a new type of hero who wasn't that concerned with honour and ...  Read the complete review

Directed By - Sergio Leone Starring - Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski Length - 130 minutes Part of the Spaghetti western Dollars trilogy, For A Few Dollars More is the second of the series. And although not known at the time, the film is very cool! The story is a simple one. A criminal by the name of Indio (Volonte) has escaped from prison. Two bounty hunters are keen to track him down. One (Van Cleef) has a personal vendetta on his mind; the other (Eastwood) is just interested in a few more dollars. With both men after the same thing (more or less) they join together as partners, but have a few differences ...  Read the complete review

I think this has got to be the best Western film ever made. Why do I think this? Well, it has all the neccessary components of a classic Spagetti Western. If has plenty of action..... It has loads of bad Dubbing..... It has a nasty Villain..... It has Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood in it..... The story revolves around the Gangster Indio who a rather large price on his head. Only problem is, no one is man enough to take him on. That is until Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood come to town. Eastwood arrives first, paying a small boy to warn him of any other strangers in town. When in the guethouse, the ugly land lady takes a ...  Read the complete review

The film in the middle of the "dollars" triolgy is often overlooked, but is quite rightly a classic in itself. The Man-with-no-name action is spiced up by the addition of experience bounty hunter Lee Van Cleef, who is even more calculating than Clint. The two find themselves on the trail of the same escaped bandit and end up shooting each other's hats in a superb display of masculine bullshit. This results in an impasse as the two are clearly equally accomplished at airborne millinary destruction, and so they team up and agree to share the bounty. As you'd expect, the two subsequently attempt to doublecross each other throughout the story and ...  Read the complete review