For a Few Dollars More (4KUHD)

Rewatching the second film from the “Man With No Name Trilogy” after many years, I found this restored version an absolute pleasure to watch and a superb story. For those unfamiliar with the trilogy each movie can be watched independently, as the stories are not linked bar the man character played by Clint Eastwood. With its excellent storytelling, stunning colour and visuals, and outstanding performances, it delivers on every level. Highly recommend.

Clint at his best

Perfect movie making from start to finish.

This is the second western in the Dollars Trilogy and it unites Clint Eastwood and Gian Marie Volonte who both featured in the first instalment 'A Fistful of Dollars'. Joining them on the ride is new face Lee Van Cleef. (Klaus Kinski also stars.) As in all three films it is money that drives the story and its characters to extreme acts of violence. The Volonte character is a particularly nasty piece of work and makes a powerful counterpoint to the two good guys, Eastwood and Van Cleef. Director Sergio Leone employs his usual stylish filmmaking techniques and once again conscripts the services of his musical collaborator, Ennio Morricone, who does a wonderful job in creating a score that is both operatic and mournful. The music associated with the Lee Van Cleef character, Colonel Douglas Mortimer, is especially sad, blending the chimes of a pocket watch with violins and a full orchestra. Morricone said that "the music that the watch makes transfers your thoughts to a different place." It certainly does and its haunting melody is something that will stay with you far beyond the rolling of the final credits.

normallly, this western on DVD would receive a 5 star rating from me. However,like many other films on DVD this has been spoilt by slicing out scenes to make the film shorter.originally released on film adout two and a half hours long, it found it's way onto VHS reduced to two hours and eight minutes. this one on DVD Which is being called a SPECIAL EDITION,has been reduced to two hours and six minutes, missing out a scene towards the end which once again destroys yet another of Sergio Leone's masterpieces. Manco and Colonel Mortimer are climbing back through the roof of the grain store, where Indio has hidden the money from the bank robbery at El Paso,they are caught by Indio's gang and are being beaten up by all the gang members. The scene is shot in the outside yard, then is suddenly cut and they are inside with Indio saying "What is the sheriff doing now", which makes no sense at all! The correct scene which has been sliced out and thus ruining the film even further, shows the gang members laughing and then Indio realising he needs them alive for a little plan of his own, ordering them to stop it, to which Groggi replies "Why let them live?" then Indio says, "All things at the right time"! Then comes "What is the sheriff doing now"? The film in it's entirity is arguably the best western ever made, and during the 60's and 70's was the most popular western worldwide. Special Edition my arse! Sergio must be turning in his grave at what's been done to all his magnificent spaghetti westerns!

Everything was great 👍

Great spaghetti Western

A worthy upgrade from the ordinary blu-ray version. Great picture and lots of extras.

Compré esta peli hace algunos meses pero no la vi hasta ayer. Al principio pensaba que tendría una calidad pésima al ver los comentarios escritos por algunas personas pero cual fué mi sorpresa cuando vi que nada más lejos de la realidad. La calidad de imagen de la película es muy buena para ser de la época que es y el sonido no esta nada mal, hay momentos que los sonidos de las balas suenan de maravilla. Vale que esta película no cuenta con sonido 5.1 pero el sonido es más que aceptable para una película de esta época y por el precio que tiene. Tiene bastante más calidad que el DVD así que si con el dvd estabas satisfecho con esta edición lo estarás más. Otra cosa es que quieras extras y demás, en este caso olvidate pero si lo que te importa es la película, la recomiendo.

I had watched it a few years back but wanted a copy of my own so decided to give this version a try, and I'm indeed very impressed. The movie feather in Sergio Leone's cap. A delight for Western lovers. My favourite movie out of the Dollars trilogy. The chemistry between Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef is amazing. Gian Maria Volonté shines as the arch villain. An interesting storyline with an outstanding soundtrack and cast. The climax duel is one of the best ever, standing right there with the likes of Once Upon a Time In the West, thanks to the twist and Ennio Morricone's music, which makes it a thing of beauty. The Blu Ray presents awesome video quality with some extra content as well. So grab yours and enjoy the ride through the wild west.

I loved the colours and the extras, ncluding the booklet and the hard case

Bounty hunters 💰 after a complete madman. The wild, wild west. Gun fights, whisky 🥃 and oh yeah- a bunch of people getting shot. A well dressed pipe smoking man and a poncho wearing man, smoking small cigars. Don’t live in a house, next to the train 🚂 station. With their differences aside, they work together to get a madman named Indio. Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef performances were brilliant 💡Just a fantastic western movie 🎥 🤗👍🐴🥃🚂💰⏱️

The Man with No Name leaves town on his horse, as Ennio Morricone's "The Vice of Killing" plays. Indio and his gang have just pulled the ultimate bank robbery, and The Man with No Name is after them. In the background, The Man in Black leaves town also, but he takes a different path. He's after Indio, too--and he won't let The Man with No Name do it without him. The movie is Sergio Leone's "For a Few Dollars More" (1965). It is my #2 movie of all time, and I consider it the quintessential Western. From the opening jaw-harp, and the whistling and the bells, we know we're in for a ride. Lee Van Cleef is The Man in Black, and he's actually a good guy. In the first several decades of the Western genre, the bad guys wore black. Leone changed that. Van Cleef made a name for himself playing the bad guy. Leone changed that, too. Leone had never met Van Cleef before making "For a Few Dollars More." According to Sir Christopher Frayling in his Leone biography, "Something to Do with Death" (2000), Leone saw Van Cleef in a photograph and instantly wanted him to play Colonel Mortimer, a.k.a. The Man in Black. Van Cleef had not been in a film since 1962--and he had seemingly vanished from the scene. Leone said, "Well I must see him at all costs because physically when I think of this character I picture him." "For a Few Dollars More" (1965) is the second movie of Leone's "The Man with No Name" trilogy, following "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964) and preceding "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" (1966). It's perhaps the least famous of the three, but I say it's the best. Clint Eastwood excels as The Man with No Name, but I believe Van Cleef steals the show as The Man in Black. They're after the same man--the man with the evil laugh. The owner of The Bank of El Paso is boasting: "Only a complete fool would try to rob us." The Man in Black says: "Yeah. Or a complete madman." Hmmmm. I wonder who that might be.... Gian Maria Volonte plays the deranged Indio--and he gets my vote for the #1 bad guy in cinematic history. Indio is worse than Liberty Valance ("The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," 1962). He's worse than Frank Miller ("High Noon," 1952). He's worse than Luke Plummer ("Stagecoach," 1939). Angel Eyes (played by Van Cleef in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," 1966) is awful, but he's a crass, shallow character. Indio has more flair, and he gets more screen time, giving the viewer a chance to know him better. Let's move to another genre. Most of us know Clubber Lange, right? He's Rocky's brash opponent in "Rocky III" (1982). Indio makes Clubber Lange look like Mr. Rogers. We know The Man with No Name from this movie's predecessor, "A Fistful of Dollars." I say again that Eastwood is super in the role. We'd love to see him get Indio...but who is this other guy? Why is The Man in Black after Indio? "For a Few Dollars More" unfolds that. Leone's stories take time to tell. On the 2007 Collector's Edition DVD special feature, "A New Standard (Fraylng on the Film)," Frayling says Leone developed his unique style in "For a Few Dollars More:" "The style of telling stories in a rather elliptical way, so you don't quite know what's going on, you discover in retrospect what you've just seen." Leone's style, with its non-linear story-telling and slowing down of the action, has influenced such movies as the Quentin Tarantino classic, "Pulp Fiction" (1994). Ennio Morricone gives us a soundtrack that runs from the jaw-harp, whistling, and bells of the opening theme, to the majestic chorus of "The Vice of Killing," to the haunting chimes of "Sixty Seconds to What?" "For a Few Dollars More" surpasses the more famous "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." I like Van Cleef better as The Man in Black than as Angel Eyes. I find the story-line of "For a Few Dollars More" to be more compelling than that of "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" is an ambitious film with some great music, but it doesn't deliver the way "For a Few Dollars More" does. "For a Few Dollars More" is a cinematic tour de force, and it ranks #2 on my all-time movie list.