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| Clint Eastwood in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Year: 1965 Rating: **** |
Sergio Leone's Man With No Name or Dollars Trilogy was mainly interpreted as such from the second movie's sustaining title, A FEW DOLLARS MORE, sounding as if Clint Eastwood's Joe character were returning after FISTFUL OF DOLLARS... but he's named Monco here, a resilient bounty-killer with initially reluctant partner Lee Van Cleef as older, more experienced and slightly superior sharp-shooting Col. Douglas Mortimer...
The best scenes take place in the small town buildup before the screen-time's stretched twenty-minutes too far in holed-up, sparsely rural locales, where at one point Eastwood watches Cleef mentally-squaring off with the violently villainous gang, as if he too were hearing Ennio Morricone's tension-building score...
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| Lee Van Cleef in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE |
Like its epic and superior followup THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, the comparably shorter DOLLARS MORE, although longer than FISTFUL, has the same main goal concerning a bundle of cash... placed inside a bank within a carpenter's unique cabinet from the backstory of lead antagonist Gian Maria Volontè as El Indio, who, flanked by scruffy hunchback Klaus Kinski and Leoni regular Luigi Pistilli, goes into spooky hypnotic trances whenever making decisions...
He's also haunted by surreal recurring backstory-flashbacks concerning a slain woman, with a climactic payoff concerning one of his two hunters... yet the three main characters often feel like part of different types of thrillers: Eastwood and Van Cleef game for a more gun-blasting-adventure while the uncompromisingly brooding Volontè leans into what's darkly art-house cerebral...
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Gian Maria Volontè in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE
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The resulting combination mostly works in a narrowed hybrid of twisty heist flick and sprawling open-road-movie, where Clint Eastwood's more of a strategic referee than primary pawn, giving genre-favorite Lee Van Cleef slightly more leverage to the overall plot and theme...
Ultimately making sense since Clint's the sole hero in FISTFUL while Eli Wallach's Tuco almost completely owns UGLY: flanking the resulting trilogy connected by style instead of characters — yet the main drive here's the director and composer, who had really found their ultimately groundbreaking, combined synergy.
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| Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE |
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| Klaus Kinski and Lee Van Cleef in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE |
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| Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE |
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| Lee Van Cleef in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE |
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| Lee Van Cleef in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE |
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| Lee Van Cleef in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE |
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Clint Eastwood in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE
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| Clint Eastwood in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE |
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| Clint Eastwood in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE |
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