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No. For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più ) is based on a script written by Italian screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni and director Sergio Leone, known for his "spaghetti westerns". It is a sequel to A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) (1964). There is also a third movie in what is known as "The Dollar Trilogy" -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.) (1966).

"Spaghetti western" is a term applied to various low-budget Old American West films made by a European, especially an Italian, film company.

Those who have seen all three movies say that it's not important to watch them in order considering that none of them follow the same story or include the same characters, other than Clint Eastwood. The only other similiarities would include the direction and the music. However, others recommend that they be watched in order to see the progression of Leone's works as the production values got better and better. In historical chronology (based on the weapons used) the film order is Good Bad Ugly (1862 American Civil War and Colt Navy revolvers), For A Few Dollars More (Colt SAA Peacemakers post 1873 but more likely 1885 Indio's Colt SAA has gutta percha grips which were in the 1884 Colt catalog), and A Fistful of Dollars ( fully automatic machinegun late 1890's + and khaki Mexican uniforms turn of the century).

Because they are Italian films with an international cast, filmed in both Almeria Spain, and Rome's Cinecitta Studios. Not to mention Leone is Italian himself.

Italian composer Ennio Morricone.

Most of us probably though that this film took place in the mid 1870's but there are clues that point to a later date. The thickness of the Newspaper Archive binder that Mortimer looks through in El Paso when he is trying to discover more about his rival bounty hunter gives you one clue.

I always assumed the front page halftone image was from White Rocks now it looks, upon closer inspection thanks to freeze frame, like the Marton Brothers were killed in far off Red Hill Montana and it was back in 1872.

If Mortimer finds Manco at the center of that binder that means the last page of the archive would bring us to the present day. At four to six pages per issue thats a lot of papers and assuming that in a place like El Paso they didn't published every day that binder can represent years. Which would make sense.

Another clue is Mortimer's attire, he wearing a tie with a "four in hand" knot. That style was invented in Englang at Oxford about 1880 and makes it another clue.

We know that on May 19, 1881: Southern Pacific tracks reach El Paso, Texas, and that " The Rock Island continued its trek westward and soon added "Pacific" to then end of its name as a final destination goal. A line to Colorado Springs was completed in 1888 and trackage rights to Denver was acquired in 1889. A line southwest across Kansas stretched to Tucumcari by the mid-1890s and a connection was completed with the Southern Pacific, thus completing the Pacific goal."

If we go by these clues The archive binder, Mortimer's tie, and the historical record for the railroads (the key is railroads in both Tucumcari & El Paso) "For a Few Dollars More" could take place as late as the mid 1890's which would put it closer in time to "A Fistful of Dollars".

There is a set of either phone or power lines in one scene that are shot at, which would also place the film in 1880's at the earliest. (Telegraph lines)

In every film he has a different name, in A Fistful of Dollars he is called Joe, in For A Few Dollars More, he is called Monco, and in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly he is named Blondie. Of the three names, Monco is likely his real name because in Fistful he never says his name, the undertaker just starts calling him Joe, as it's a common name. Blondie is just the nickname Tuco gives him because, once again, he didn't reveal his name. However, in For A Few Dollars More, the sheriff is talking about the bounty hunter named Monco and that's the name he signed in the ledger, so it is likely his true name or at least the name he goes by. Though it's not improbable that his full name is Joe 'Blondie' Monco.