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For a Few Dollars More (1965)

★★★★ — For a Few Dollars More (1965)

Sergio Leone's second Spaghetti Western, and the middle chapter of what became known as the Dollars Trilogy, arrived just a year after the surprise European success of A Fistful of Dollars (1964). Shot primarily on location in Almería, Spain (the same arid landscape that stood in for the American frontier throughout the cycle), the film reunited Leone with Clint Eastwood while adding Lee Van Cleef, a veteran character actor who had largely been reduced to television work by this point, in a role that effectively relaunched his career. Produced on a modest budget across an Italian, German, and Spanish co-production arrangement, it grossed twenty-five times its cost internationally, confirming there was genuine appetite for the grittier, more morally ambiguous Western that Hollywood studios had not yet caught up to.

El Indio is one of the most iconic Western villains Now, I consider The Good The Bad and The Ugly the greatest film ever made. A few dollars more is similarly an absolutely BRILLIANT film... it's just always in the shadow of TGTBaTU a bit for me. That being said, El Indio is fantastic. He's sinister, haunted, cunning and unforgiving. Of course Ennio Morricone has a score for the ages too.

Rating: ★★★★ | Year: 1965 | Watched: 2025-04-13

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