Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)

Director:

Sergio Leone

Writers:

Sergio Leone (scenario) and
Fulvio Morsella (scenario) ...
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Release Date:

10 May 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

The man with no name is back... The man in black is waiting! As if one wasn't enough . . . as if death needed a double!

Plot:

Two bounty hunters with completely different intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.

Plot Keywords:

Bounty Hunter | Friendship | Six Shooter | Gun | Suspense

Cast

Clint Eastwood	...	Monco
Lee Van Cleef	...	Col. Douglas Mortimer
Gian Maria Volonté	...	El Indio (The Indian) (as Gian Maria Volonte')
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
Sergio Mendizábal	...	Tucumcari bank manager (as Sergio Mendizabal)
Dante Maggio	...	Carpenter in cell with El Indio
Diana Rabito	...	Calloway's beautiful girl in tub
Giovanni Tarallo	...	Santa Cruz telegraphist
Mario Meniconi	...	Train Conductor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Werner Abrolat	...	Slim, Member of Indio's Gang (uncredited)
Román Ariznavarreta	...	Half-Shaved Bounty Hunter (uncredited)
Frank Braña	...	Blackie, Member of Indio's Gang (uncredited)
José Canalejas	...	Chico, Member of Indio's Gang (uncredited)
Rosemary Dexter	...	Mortimer's Sister (uncredited)
Diana Faenza	...	Tomaso's Wife (uncredited)
Eduardo García	...	Member of Indio's Gang (uncredited)
Maurizio Graf	...	The Balladeer (voice) (uncredited)
Jesús Guzmán	...	Carpetbagger on Train (uncredited)
Peter Lee Lawrence	...	Mortimer's Brother-in-Law (uncredited)
Francesca Leone	...	Tomaso's Baby (uncredited)
Sergio Leone	...	Whistling Bounty Hunter (voice) (uncredited)
Rafael López	...	(uncredited)
José Marco	...	'Baby' Red Cavanaugh (uncredited)
Antonio Molino Rojo	...	Frisco, Member of Indio's Gang (uncredited)
José Félix Montoya	...	(uncredited)
Guillermo Méndez	...	White Rocks Sheriff (uncredited)
Nazzareno Natale	...	Paco - Member of Indio's Gang (uncredited)
Enrique Navarro	...	Sherrif of Tucumcari (uncredited)
Ricardo Palacios	...	Tucumcari Saloon Keeper (uncredited)
Aldo Ricci	...	(uncredited)
Antoñito Ruiz	...	Fernando (uncredited)
Enrique Santiago	...	Miguel, Member of Indio's Gang (uncredited)
Carlo Simi	...	El Paso Bank Manager (uncredited)
José Terrón	...	Guy Calloway, Mortimer's 1st Criminal (uncredited)
Kurt Zips	...	Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Directed by
Sergio Leone

Writing credits
Sergio Leone		(scenario) and
Fulvio Morsella		(scenario)
Luciano Vincenzoni		(screenplay) and
Sergio Leone		(screenplay)
Luciano Vincenzoni		(dialogue: English version)
Fernando Di Leo		uncredited &
Sergio Donati		uncredited

Produced by
Arturo González	....	producer (as Arturo Gonzalez)
Alfredo Fraile	....	executive producer: Spain (uncredited)
Alberto Grimaldi	....	producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
Ennio Morricone

Cinematography by
Massimo Dallamano		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Eugenio Alabiso
Giorgio Serrallonga		(as Giorgio Serralonga)

Set Decoration by
Ángel Cabero		(setting) (uncredited)
Montoro		(setting) (uncredited)

Makeup Department
Amedeo Alessi	....	makeup artist
Rino Carboni	....	head makeup artist
Juan Farsac	....	makeup artist (uncredited)
Isabel Mellado	....	assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Manuel Castedo	....	production supervisor
Ottavio Oppo	....	production manager
Norberto Soliño	....	production supervisor (as Norberto Solino)
Fernando Rossi	....	production supervisor (uncredited)
José Sánchez	....	assistant production manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Tonino Valerii	....	assistant director
Fernando Di Leo	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Julio Ortas	....	second unit director (uncredited)
Julio Sempere	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Rafael Ferri	....	assistant art decorator (as Raphael Ferri Jorda)
Carlo Leva	....	assistant art director
Carlo Simi	....	sets

Sound Department
Oscar De Arcangelis	....	sound
Guido Ortenzi	....	sound

Special Effects by
Giovanni Corridori	....	special effects (as Corridori Giovanni)
Eros Bacciucchi	....	special effects (uncredited)
Manuel Baquero	....	special effects (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Ludovico Bettarello	....	digital online film restoration: Technicolor Rome (uncredited)

Stunts
Luis Beltran	....	stunts (uncredited)
Nosher Powell	....	stunts (uncredited)
Benito Stefanelli	....	stunt director (uncredited)
Benito Stefanelli	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Mario Lommi	....	assistant cameraman
Eduardo Noé	....	cameraman (as Eduardo Noe)
Aldo Ricci	....	cameraman
Isidro Muro	....	first assistant camera (uncredited)
Julio Ortas	....	director of photography: second unit (uncredited)

Casting Department
Luis Beltran	....	local casting (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Carlo Simi	....	costumes

Editorial Department
Adriana Novelli	....	supervising editor
Andrea Gargano	....	final colorist (uncredited)

Music Department
Bruno Nicolai	....	conductor
Alessandro Alessandroni	....	musician: whistling and guitar (uncredited)
Bruno Battisti D'Amario	....	musician: guitar (uncredited)
Nino Culasso	....	musician: trumpet (uncredited)
Maurizio Graf	....	singer (uncredited)
Ennio Morricone	....	conductor (uncredited)

Other crew
Mariano Canales	....	script supervisor
Fernando Di Leo	....	assistant: Mr. Leone
Arturo González	....	presenter
Alberto Grimaldi	....	presenter
Sergio Leone	....	copyright holder
Antonio Palombi	....	production secretary
Maria Luisa Rosen	....	continuity
Emilio Cigoli	....	voice dubbing: Lee Van Cleef (uncredited)
Dhia Cristiani	....	voice dubbing: Mara Krupp (uncredited)
Lauro Gazzolo	....	voice dubbing: Josef Egger (uncredited)
Nando Gazzolo	....	voice dubbing: Gian Maria Volontè (uncredited)
Pino Locchi	....	voice dubbing: Benito Stefanelli (uncredited)
Bruno Persa	....	voice dubbing: Klaus Kinski (uncredited)
Enrico Maria Salerno	....	voice dubbing: Clint Eastwood (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA) (A Co-Production) (as P.E.A. Rome)
• Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas (A Co-Production) (as Arturo Gonzales Madrid)
• Constantin Film Produktion (A Co-Production) (as Constantin Film Munich)

Distributors

• Constantin Film (1966) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• United Artists Films (1966) (Finland) (theatrical) (cut version)
• United Artists (1966) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• United Artists Corporation (1967) (UK) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• United Artists (1967) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• United Artists (1969) (USA) (VHS) (re-release)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1974) (USA) (TV)
• United Artists Films (1984) (Finland) (theatrical)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1991) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Astro Distribution (1994) (Germany) (video) (laserdisc)
• MGM Home Entertainment (1998) (USA) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2000) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• MGM Home Entertainment (Europe) (2001) (UK) (DVD)
• Divisa Home Video (2002) (Spain) (DVD)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2002) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• FS Film Oy (2005) (Finland) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Divisa Home Video (2008) (Spain) (DVD)
• Chapel Distribution (2003) (Australia) (theatrical) (re-release)
• United Artists (1966) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (????) (Brazil) (DVD)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2007) (Canada) (DVD)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Mondo Home Entertainment (2007) (Italy) (DVD)
• Regia-Arturo González Rodríguez (Spain)
• Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (2005) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (2009) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (????) (Brazil) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Andrea Leone Films  thanks (DVD version)
• Borja  footwear (uncredited)
• Cornejo  costumes (uncredited)
• Eureka Edizioni Musicali  publishers
• Luna  props (uncredited)
• Mateos  props (uncredited)
• Mengíbar  props (uncredited)
• RCA Italiana Studios International Recording  recorded at
• Vázquez Hermanos  props (uncredited)

Also Known As:

"For a Few Dollars More" - International (English title), UK, USA
"A Few Dollars More" - Philippines (English title)
"Für ein paar Dollar mehr" - West Germany
"La muerte tenía un precio" - Spain (imdb display title)
"För några få dollar mer" - Finland (Swedish title), Sweden
"Por unos dólares más" - Mexico (imdb display title), Peru (imdb display title)
"Pour quelques dollars de plus" - Canada (French title), France (dubbed version)
"Za dolar vise" - Serbia (imdb display title), Yugoslavia (Serbian title)
"Birkaç dolar için" - Turkey (Turkish title)
"Et pour quelques dollars de plus" - France
"Für ein paar Dollar mehr" - Austria
"For noen få dollar mer" - Norway
"Hævn for dollars" - Denmark
"Mõne dollari pärast veel" - Estonia
"Monomahia sto El Paso" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"Pár dollárral többért" - Hungary (imdb display title)
"Pentru Cativa Dolari in Plus" - Romania (imdb display title)
"Por Mais Alguns Dólares" - Portugal
"Por unos pocos dólares más" - Argentina
"Por uns Dólares a Mais" - Brazil
"Vain muutaman dollarin tähden" - Finland
"Yuuhi no ganman" - Japan
"Za kilka dolarów wiecej" - Poland

Runtime:

132 min

Country:

Italy | Spain | West Germany

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 (1984) (uncut) | Finland:K-16 (1966) (cut) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Brazil:12 | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | West Germany:16 (nf) | USA:M (re-rating) (1969) | Portugal:M/12 | Peru:14 | UK:X (original rating) (passed with cuts) | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Canada:G (Quebec) (re-rating) (2003) | Ireland:15 | Norway:15 (DVD rating) (2005) | Norway:16 (original rating) | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) (1997) (1999) (2002) (2005) | USA:Approved (Certificate No. 21240) (original rating) | USA:R (re-rating) (1989) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (original rating) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Almería Railway Station, Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)

Trivia:

Sergio Leone also considered Robert Ryan for the role of Col. Mortimer, being a fan of his performance in The Naked Spur (1953).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Indio's gang is busting him out of jail, the sky changes from dark to light in a very short period of time.

Quotes:

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

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Couples Retreat (2009)

The finest example of the Spaghetti Western revolution

Italian director Sergio Leone changed the face of the Western genre in 1964 when he introduced what would be known as the "Spaghetti Western" with the brilliant "Per un Pugno di Dollari" ("A Fistful of Dollars"). Not only the films looked grittier, violent and realistic; the characters in Leone's westerns became complex men with complex and obscure moral codes, very far away from the classic clear moral opposites of previous westerns. "Per Qualche Dollaro in più" ("For a few dollars more"), is the epitome of all this. It is a powerful, raw and ruthless masterpiece that transcended its genre and became one of the best movies of all-time.

"For a Few Dollars More", the second in the so-called "Dollars trilogy" (a group of films by Leone with the same style), is the story of two different yet very similar men, Manco (Clint Eastwood) and the Colonel Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) are two bounty hunters who are after the criminal named "El Indio" (Gian Maria Volontè). An unlikely alliance occurs between the two lone wolves as they decide to cooperate and divide the reward, but are these two killers after "Indio" for the same reason?

Written by Fulvio Morsella and Sergio Leone himself, the film's main characteristic is the complex moral code the main characters follow. They are no longer the perfect clean heroes of classic westerns, both Manco and the Colonel have well-developed attitudes, motivations and purposes; they are neither completely good nor completely bad, they are just real. The story unfolds with a fine pace and good rhythm, it is probably the best structured of the "Trilogy" and the easiest to follow. It is also the one that represents the elements of the Spaghetti Western style the best.

Stylistically, the film follows closely the conventions established by Leone's previous film but it takes them to the next level. The excellent use of minimalistic cinematography and the superb musical score by Ennio Morricone complement Leone's realistic vision of Westerns and completely redefined the genre's conventions. "For a Few Dollars More" is a violent tale of two hunters, and visually the film transmits the same emotions the characters feel. No more myths, the Westerns never felt this real.

Clint Eastwood's super performance as Manco is very important for the success of the film, as he is the one that takes the audience through this brave new world, however, the star of the film is Lee Van Cleef as Colonel Mortimer. In one of his best performances ever, Van Cleef manages to be both menacing and interesting, giving life to Leone's brilliant script with great talent. Gian Maria Volontè as Indio complements the two big talents as the crazed criminal with a dark past, he is the perfect counterpart of the two lone wolves.

"Per qualche dollaro in più" is a near flawless movie, as every piece of the puzzle falls into the right place to create a marvelous and unforgettable picture. It's only minor problem may be the dubbing, but fortunately, it still is superior to the one heard in other Italian productions of the same time and it doesn't hurt the film.

Fans will always argue about which of the three films of the "trilogy" is the best, and while personally I prefer "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" over this one, it is just a matter of personal taste as this film is as perfect as that one. A real classic that changed the face of Western as we knew it. 10/10