The Man With No Name Trilogy, or Dollars Trilogy as it is called when you're pressed for time, is really one of the greatest examples of fine action and western filmmaking around. At the time, people didn't really take Italo-Westerns seriously, and the term Spaghetti Western was meant to be derogatory. However, over time, people have come around to realize that these films are often as good as any American western ever filmed, and in fact, some of the very best, period. For a Few Dollars More is probably the least seen of the Dollars Trilogy, and definitely the coolest, if not exactly the very best (which would probably be The Good the Bad and the Ugly). Put it on your movie downloads queue the next time you visit your movie download service.
The movie is really all about the cool little details Leone packed into the film. It starts with a great sequence of Eastwood beating a bounty up with a single hand, and then goes on to Lee Van Cleef selecting one of his dozens of long barrel guns to take out a bad guy, and eventually we get to see one of the coolest western villains of all time.
See, he uses a pocket watch every time he kills someone. It's a musical pocket watch, so he winds it up and lets it play while staring down his adversary. When the music comes to a stop... He draws and fires. Definitely a great villainous ritual for any western baddie to commit to.
Cleef plays Colonel Mortimer, a Civil War Hero turned bounty hunter who teams up with Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name to take this guy out. The Colonel has personal history with the guy, so while The Man With No Name is just out to make a buck, Mortimer is out for revenge. The way their two objectives intersect and reinforce one another is really something to see.
The two have one of the all time great man-movie bonding scenes, shooting each other's hats off and upping the stakes with each shot in order to impress and intimidate the other. They wind up forming a partnership that begins as uneasy and quickly becomes almost affectionate. A far cry from the loveless working relationship Eastwood shared with Eli Wallach in The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
There really isn't another film in almost any genre outside of the musical that uses music quite as effectively as this film. The pocket watch plays a little melody written by Ennio Morricone, and in the finale, the melody is layered into an epic orchestrated piece that really builds an incredible amount of tension before anyone draws a pistol and finally fires.
Leone is one of the all time greats, and it's too bad his career was cut short before he could complete Stalingrad, his WWII epic.
The only thing the film is missing is Eli Wallach, who's turn as Tuco in The Good the Bad and the Ugly may well have been the finest performance of any in the pantheon of Italian western films. - 42569
The movie is really all about the cool little details Leone packed into the film. It starts with a great sequence of Eastwood beating a bounty up with a single hand, and then goes on to Lee Van Cleef selecting one of his dozens of long barrel guns to take out a bad guy, and eventually we get to see one of the coolest western villains of all time.
See, he uses a pocket watch every time he kills someone. It's a musical pocket watch, so he winds it up and lets it play while staring down his adversary. When the music comes to a stop... He draws and fires. Definitely a great villainous ritual for any western baddie to commit to.
Cleef plays Colonel Mortimer, a Civil War Hero turned bounty hunter who teams up with Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name to take this guy out. The Colonel has personal history with the guy, so while The Man With No Name is just out to make a buck, Mortimer is out for revenge. The way their two objectives intersect and reinforce one another is really something to see.
The two have one of the all time great man-movie bonding scenes, shooting each other's hats off and upping the stakes with each shot in order to impress and intimidate the other. They wind up forming a partnership that begins as uneasy and quickly becomes almost affectionate. A far cry from the loveless working relationship Eastwood shared with Eli Wallach in The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
There really isn't another film in almost any genre outside of the musical that uses music quite as effectively as this film. The pocket watch plays a little melody written by Ennio Morricone, and in the finale, the melody is layered into an epic orchestrated piece that really builds an incredible amount of tension before anyone draws a pistol and finally fires.
Leone is one of the all time greats, and it's too bad his career was cut short before he could complete Stalingrad, his WWII epic.
The only thing the film is missing is Eli Wallach, who's turn as Tuco in The Good the Bad and the Ugly may well have been the finest performance of any in the pantheon of Italian western films. - 42569
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