For A Few Dollars More

Starring:TomÃ¡s Blanco, Roberto Camardiel, Clint Eastwood, Joseph Egger, Klaus Kinski, Mara Krupp, Dante Maggio, Sergio MendizÃ¡bal, Mario Meniconi, Panos Papadopulos, Luigi Pistilli, Diana Rabito, Lorenzo Robledo, Luis RodrÃguez, Aldo Sambrell, Benito Stefanelli, Giovanni Tarallo, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria VolontÃ©
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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From the innovative "James Bond Western" style of A Fistful of Dollars (1964) to the complete restoration of Duck You Sucker (1971), The Sergio Leone Anthology pays lavish tribute to one of the greatest of all Italian directors. A lifelong film buff deeply influenced by the movies he enjoyed as an uneducated youth in southern Italy, Leone (1929-1989) had officially directed only one previous film (1961's The Colossus of Rhodes) when he recruited a relatively unknown American TV star named Clint Eastwood (on a modest salary of $15,000) and made cinema history with A Fistful of Dollars, not the first Western made by an Italian but certainly the first truly Italian entry in the "Spaghetti Western" genre that Leone virtually invented. Each of the four films included in this eight-disc set are influential milestones in that once-maligned, now-celebrated genre, and while Leone's classic Westerns were largely dismissed by critics throughout the 1960s and '70s, they now stand as the masterworks of a visionary artist who was posthumously elevated into the pantheon of world-class filmmakers. To acknowledge Leone's historic impact on the genre, the Leone Anthology includes MGM's previous two-disc extended-cut collector's edition of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), and applies the same deluxe treatment to A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More (1965), and, for the first time on DVD, the fully restored English-language version of the original 157-minute Italian cut of Duck You Sucker (previously known by its alternate U.S. title A Fistful of Dynamite), which was never shown in American theaters.

A Fistful of Dollars is best known in America for spawning the "Man With No Name" marketing campaign that made Eastwood a star, although Eastwood's character is clearly named "Joe" in this cleverly adapted low-budget remake of Akira Kurosawa's samurai classic Yojimbo, in which Eastwood's lone drifter vies for strategic advantage in a corrupt Mexican town divided by a bitter family feud. The operatic qualities that grew increasingly lavish in Leone's later films are evident here on a smaller scale, along with the modern, innovative score of Ennio Morricone, whose legendary collaborations with Leone (on all four of these films) were vital to the director's deliberate defiance of Hollywood's Western traditions. Fistful was an instant success in Italy and its immediate sequel, For a Few Dollars More, is often cited as the definitive Spaghetti Western, with a bigger budget ($600,000) and a charismatic costar with Eastwood (Lee Van Cleef) in an uneasy alliance between gunslingers that introduced a hint of humanity to Leone's increasingly de-mythologized vision of the West. While teaming Eastwood, Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in a ruthless Civil War-era quest for buried Confederate gold, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly completed Leone's "Dollars" trilogy (filmed primarily on locations in Spain) on a truly epic scale, introducing the darker cynicism, grander ambition, and artistic maturity that defined Leone's later films.

Leone vowed to quit making Westerns after his 1968 masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West (a Paramount release not included in this set), but circumstances led him to seize the directorial reins of Duck You Sucker, a dynamic yet deeply disillusioned study of revolution that can now take its rightful place among Leone's greatest films. Like several of Leone's films, Duck You Sucker suffered a long history of cuts, re-cuts, and censorship, and the fully restored 157-minute version (unseen since the film's 1971 Italian premiere) more effectively explores the complex friendship between an Irish rebel explosives expert (James Coburn) and a brutish Mexican bandit (Rod Steiger) who becomes a reluctant revolutionary in 1913 Mexico. With explosive action sequences that remain among the most impressive ever filmed, Duck You Sucker now gives richer meaning to the film's original Italian title Giù la testa ("Keep Your Head Down"), asserting Leone's theme that family is far more important than the devastating violence of revolution. In the Leone Anthology (a variation on previous DVD sets released in England, Germany, and Japan), Duck You Sucker is the long-awaited crown jewel in a box-set of cinematic treasures. And while Leone purists will endlessly debate over the image quality (generally quite impressive) and 5.1-channel soundtrack mixes included here, there's no denying that The Sergio Leone Anthology is the definitive Leone tribute for a technically demanding 21st-century audience, and that's cause for enthusiastic celebration. --Jeff Shannon

On the DVDs
Listed in the glossy 32-page booklet that accompanies this eight-disc set (also including cast lists, scene selections, brief synopses, and behind-the-scenes details), the bonus features found in The Sergio Leone Anthology provide a comprehensive study of Leone's career, themes that dominated his work, and the historical contexts that inform Leone's classic "Spaghetti Westerns." With an even balance of lively authority and erudite scholarship, acclaimed Leone biographer and British film historian Sir Christopher Frayling provides informative commentary on A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and Duck You Sucker, while Time magazine critic Richard Schickel's equally astute commentary remains on MGM's previous two-disc release of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. (Many of these features were prepared for the U.K. version of The Leone Anthology, including interviews conducted in 2003 and 2005.) In addition to a wide variety of vintage American radio promotional spots for these films, the meticulously researched and delightfully fascinating "location comparisons" show "then and now" scenes from all four films, with original film clips perfectly matched to location photos taken in 2004 by devoted Leone fans Donald S. Bruce and Marla J. Johnson.

Extras on A Fistful of Dollars begin with "A New Kind of Hero" (22:53), Frayling's behind-the-scenes analysis of the film's innovative anti-hero played by Clint Eastwood, whom Leone hired (when first choices Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Lee Marvin, and Charles Bronson proved too expensive) after seeing Eastwood in a 1961 episode of Rawhide. In the interview featurette "A Few Weeks in Spain" (8:33), Eastwood recalls the experience of making the film on location, and "Tre Voci" (or "Three Voices") is an 11-minute combination of retrospective interviews with producer Alberto Grimaldi, screenwriter Sergio Donati, and Mickey Knox, an American actor living in Rome who provided many of the post-synchronized voices for the English-language versions of Leone's films. In "Not Ready for Prime Time" (6:20), maverick American director Monte Hellman describes the circumstances that led to his direction of an explanatory Fistful of Dollars prologue for the film's American network TV premiere on August 29, 1977. Featuring Harry Dean Stanton, and filmed as an attempt to "legitimize" the Man With No Name's seemingly immoral behavior, the rarely-seen prologue (7:44) is introduced by obsessive Leone fan Howard Fridkin, who saved his Betamax recording from the one-time-only 1977 broadcast.

Frayling examines For a Few Dollars More in "A New Standard" (20:15), a "making of" featurette with emphasis on the film's male/male dynamic (described by Frayling as Leone's "invention of the brother he never had"). In "Back for More" (7:08), Eastwood recalls how he'd begun to watch Leone to inform his own directorial ambitions. "Tre Voci" (11:05) continues the retrospective interviews with Grimaldi, Donati, and Knox, and "The Original American Release Version" (5:19) examines three edits (including removal of the name "Manco" so Eastwood's character could remain "nameless" in the film's American marketing) that were made for the film's U.S. release.

Extras on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly are highlighted by "Leone's West" (19:53) and "The Leone Style" (23:47), a pair of excellent documentaries exploring the film itself and the evolution of Leone's visual style as his budgets and production values grew to epic proportions. Featuring interviews with Clint Eastwood, critic and Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel, and others, these are must-see features packed with entertaining observations and anecdotes. Lending historical context to Leone's film, "The Man Who Lost the Civil War" is a 14-minute excerpt from a documentary about ill-fated Confederate general Henry Hopkins Sibley's botched campaign to expand Confederate dominance in the West. The "Reconstruction" featurette (11:07) is a detailed study of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly's painstaking restoration to Leone's intended 179-minute extended cut, featuring an interview John Kirk, the MGM director of technical operations who supervised the film's meticulous reconstruction. The essential contribution of composer Ennio Morricone is celebrated in the "Il Maestro" featurette (7:47) and film music historian Jon Burlingame provides an excellent audio-only survey (12:29) of Morricone's most popular soundtrack. Deleted scenes include the extended "Tuco torture" sequence (in which the brutal beating of Eli Wallach's character is masterfully cross-cut with the melancholy performance of a prison-camp orchestra); the brilliant "Socorro sequence" that was drastically edited in previous cuts; and a French trailer revealing shots and alternate angles not seen in the film's various theatrical releases. The poster gallery includes eight posters from the film's international marketing campaigns.

For Duck You Sucker, Frayling's film-by-film analysis continues in "The Myth of Revolution" (22:10), a behind-the-scenes study of Leone's deepening artistic maturity, as manifested in the film's cynical view of political revolution. "Donati Remembers" (7:20) is a continuation of the retrospective interview with screenwriter Sergio Donati (who by the early '70s was urging Leone to return to smaller-scale filmmaking), and "Once Upon a Time in Italy" (6:00) explores the ambitious effort that went into creating the definitive traveling exhibit of material (props, posters, costumes, etc.) from Leone's archives and beyond, first shown at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage, in Los Angeles, California, in July 2005. In "Sorting Out the Versions" (11:37), film historian Glenn Erickson narrates a visual survey of the various cuts and changes made to Duck You Sucker during its tortured history of global distribution, and in "Restoration Italian Style" (6:07), MGM director of technical operations John Kirk outlines the painstaking effort to restore Duck You Sucker to its original Italian premiere length of 157 minutes, resulting in the first-ever English language version based on the film's Italian-language restoration of 1996. The disc concludes with the enjoyable "Location Comparisons" (9:32), six rare radio spots from the film's original U.S. release in 1972, and (as with all other films in this set) the original theatrical trailer. --Jeff Shannon

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Disc 1: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY Collector's Edition Disc 2: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY Bonus Disc Disc 3: A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS Collector's Edition Disc 4: A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS Bonus Disc Disc 5: FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Collector's Edition Disc 6: FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Bonus Disc Disc 7: DUCK, YOU SUCKER (A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE) Collector's Edition Disc 8: DUCK, YOU SUCKER (A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE) Bonus Disc

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A couple of these are among the best westerns ever!.......2007-06-25

The Good The Bad and The Ugly is certainly in the top ten best westerns ever and For a few Dollars More in the top ten or at least top twenty. See my amapedia review below for more details.

Four classic Leone movies given the deluxe treatment and FINALLY released in the U.S. on DVD.......2007-06-10

Prepared for release in 2005 we've only had to wait two years for this deluxe reissue of three of the four Leone films included here. For those that want to know this box set has a 32 page booklet with credits and essays on the films but no postcards like the original release of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". If you want the collectable version, I suppose you'll have to buy these individually. This set is definitely worth picking up as it is a HUGE improvement over all the previously released home video versions of the film. All the films look terrific, have commentary tracks (although "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" is the exact same release as before)and great featurettes/extras that were released overseas two years ago.

"Fistful of Dollars" looks very good in its new DVD transfer lovingly restored although there is an odd strobe like effect in one sequence. We get a terrific commentary track from Leone scholar Sir Christopher Frayling discussing the making of the film, the delayed release in the United States (part of which was related to Akira Kurosawa's lawsuit. It was legit though since "Fistful" is an unauthorized remake of Kurosawa's classic "Yojimbo" although Leone's version of the same story is equally compelling), how Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson (who called it one of the worst scripts he had ever read...interesting considering he later appeared in "Once Upon a Time in the West")both turned down the lead role.

Eastwood reveals in a featurette that he wrote much of his own dialogue for the film, made his own script notes all of which contributed to truly making the role his own.

"For a Few Dollars More" looks exceptional. Like all the films here, it is released in an anamorphic widscreen transfer that does justice to the deep, rich colors of the films. There is one scene where there appears to be some sort of scratch on the film that wasn't corrected but otherwise the film looks beautiful. We also get Eastwood again discussing the making of the film, Sir Christopher Frayling with another very good commentary track as well as a section that compares three variations in the film (the sequence where Manco and Mortimer are beaten up has a slightly longer more brutal variation and we also see the way UA released the film with a brief trim that eliminated Manco's name to tie the film into the promo campagin that UA had for "The Man with No Name").

"The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" is exactly the same as the 2005 release on DVD right down to the graphics on the disc. Sir Christopher Frayling did record a commentary track for this after it was released hoping that it could be added to later editions (he wasn't available for the original remaster. Time critic Richard Schickel does the honors here). The extras are exactly the same. For those that are interested this includes the 5.1 mix that had new sound effects for that mix but does not include the original mono soundtrack in English.

"Duck You Sucker" comes in the most complete version released so far. At 157 minutes it is closest to Leone's original cut of the film. The film looks exceptionally good. It's clear that John Kirk went the extra mile to get this right. Also, kudos to Glenn Erickson (aka DVD Savant at DVD Talk)who worked on the featurettes and started the campaign to get these films restored and released on home video ages ago.

Again, Sir Christopher Frayling does a very good commentary track discussing the various versions of the film released. The soundtraack has been reprocessed for 5.1. Sergio Donati a collaborator of Leone's discusses working on the film in a featurette and how Eli Wallach was replaced by Rod Steiger at United Artist's insistance but that Leone never shared the information with Wallach. "Restoration Italian Style" features John Kirk who worked on this special project discusses how he went about reassembling the film for this edition. We also get location comparisons (this is also on the other discs as well)showing scenes from the film and how the locations look now. "The Autry Exhibit" is a featurette on a show assembled by Frayling and Estela Chung for a Leone exhibit. Unfortunately, that happened in 2005 when this was ORIGINALLY was supposed to be released before MGM was bought by Sony throwing this and other releases into limbo. "Sorting out the Versions" uses stills, footage used to show us scenes that weren't included in the movie.

The whole set is assembled in a cardboard foldout box with the discs resting on top of each other. There's a little holder built into the set for the booklet.

Overall this is a terrific set and an essential addition to fans of Leone's westerns. Although it took two years to get this released in the United States (that's nothing compared to the delay for the second season of "Twin Peaks" for even the release of the pilot for that show in the U.S.), it was worth the wait. I'm not sure what the Blu-Ray plans are for this release yet so I went ahead and plunked down the money for the whole set. Fans who already have "TGTBATU" may want to buy these individually although it would be more expensive than this set. MGM (and Fox which distributes all MGM titles now even though MGM is held by Sony)have done a terrific job with this set. My only complaint is that it would have been nice to have the collectable postcards that reproduced the lobby cards/posters. Highly recommended.

Where's the postcards!.......2007-06-07

I'm glad I didn't dump my copy of the previous "collectors edition" of G/B/U when I first pre-ordered this set, because the cool set of postcards reproducing international posters is NOT included in this set.

Does anyone know if the individual "collectors edition" releases of the other films, FOD/FFDM & Duck You Sucker come with any such goodies?

So five stars for the discs, but four for leaving out the postcards...

Unsure.......2007-06-06

I already own The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

I've waited 3 years for the other Leone movies to come out on the Collector's Editions...Now I have to decide what to do.

Should I buy the three movies separately or buy the entire box set? Buying them individually would be cheaper...but will I lose out on anything by doing this and not buying the entire edition?

I don't know what to do...can anyone comment?

At long last..........2007-06-05

Like others in this thread, I too wondered why it took MGM soooo long to put this out. After seeing the fantastic work with TGBU remastering, I am excited to see what's in store for the rest of these masterpieces. BTW, in the Editorial Review, Jeff Shannon, as seems to be the case with numerous film critics, incorrectly states about Fistfull of Dollars "...although Eastwood's character is clearly named "Joe"...". Sure,he is called that but only by one person, the undertaker, in the entire film. His name was never revealed by his character nor was he referred to by any other name. I guess one could debate whether or not the undertaker even said "Joe" considering that his english dialogue was obviously dubbed. Oh, well. Enjoy the new releases!

The Man with No Name Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)

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The Man with No Name Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
Starring: Clint Eastwood
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Sergio Leone's trilogy of operatic spaghetti Westerns with Clint Eastwood made the former TV star into an international sensation as the scraggly, silent Man with No Name, a wandering rogue with a scheming mind and a sense of humor drier than the dusty, wind-scoured desert. With A Fistful of Dollars, a blatant rip-off of Kurosawa's cynical samurai hit Yojimbo, Leone transforms the Western hero into a crafty mercenary. The follow-up, For a Few Dollars More, teams Eastwood up in an uneasy alliance with Lee Van Cleef in a tale of revenge, but the masterpiece of the set is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, an epic scramble for buried gold set against the violence of the Civil War. In this film good is a relative term as three criminals make a series of tenuous partnerships broken in double-crosses and betrayals in Leone's epic vision of the American southwest as endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen. This was a new kind of Western: cynical, violent, stylish, and austere. Eastwood's rough face and squinting eyes fill the widescreen frame in massive close-ups while Leone stages action in bold compositions on empty streets and stark landscapes. The guns ring out in cartoonish exaggeration, and the music, an eclectic, electric mix of buzzing guitar, human voice, and harmonica by Ennio Morricone, sets the whole thing in a world pitched between myth and modernity. Leone's shot-in-Spain trilogy ushered in a flood of Italian spaghetti Westerns, but none hold a candle to Leone's stylish classics. --Sean Axmaker

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Disc 1: FISTFUL OF DOLLARS Disc 2: FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Disc 3: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

Customer Reviews:

The Greatest Westerns Ever Made, But These DVDs have Shortcomings.......2007-05-05

My low rating does not apply to the movies themselves. In a period when most Hollywood westerns were becoming predictable and formulaic, Italian director Sergio Leone broke the mold! This trilogy, along with his last western, "Once Upon A Time In The West" (not included in this set), are the four greatest westerns ever made, and yet were not produced by Hollywood. The greatest of the Hollywood westerns, such as "The Big Country", "The Alamo", "The Three Godfathers", and south-of-the-border westerns like "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "Guns For San Sabastian" (to name but a few of the greats) all fall in behind the Leone westerns. If you are a fan of westerns and have not seen the movies in this trilogy, watch them as soon as possible, but be prepared for something different than you are used to. They are not slick, but instead portray an accurate grittiness of the old west. They are not gimmicky like the Hollywood westerns of more recent vintage (say from about the mid 1970's to present). The greatest western ever made has to be "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly". This is the mother of all westerns! The acting in all three movies is superb, but the performance of Eli Wallach as Tuco in "The Good..." is extraordinary, and ranks as one of the greatest performances by any actor on film. Clint Eastwood also gives the greatest performance of his career in "The Good...". It is interesting that Clint tried to recapture the magic of the Leone films in his own productions such as "Pale Rider", Hang 'Em Hign", etc., but never even came close.

Now on to the problems with these discs. The transfers are not particularly hign quality, and appear not to be remastered. The first two trilogy movies are merely letterboxed rather than enhanced widescreen. But the biggest bummer of all is the sound quality. The sound quality on "The Good..." is about as good as any of the versions I have heard. The sound quality of "Fistful..." is rather poor. But it is the obnoxious sound of "for A Few Dollars More" that is really a crime. The dialog is too far in the background, and the overall sound on this disc is so harsh that if you turn the volume up to a level where you can hear the dialog clearly, the hard, treble-heavy, distorted sound will bore a hole in your head! I'm not kidding. I love these movies so much that I will have to find an alternative version of "For a Few Dollars More" to replace the one that came with this trilogy. If I had it to do over again, I would purchase the best individual versions I could find, rather than waste money of this set. It's too bad that MGM didn't put just a little bit more TLC into these masterpieces!

Clint Eastwood - the Man with No Name Trilogy DVD collection.......2007-04-12

A Must have for all Clint Eastwood's classic spaghetti western fans.

great.......2007-03-29

have you ever seen those movies, no ?? you have to do it

Good old westerns.......2007-02-23

This trilogy is a necessity for all Clint Eastwood fans. These are the good westerns. I bought them for my husband, and he watched all of them, forgetting to do his chores. His only complaint was that he missed seeing them in the low-quality, scratchy, uncolorful versions he used to see when the movies were on TV!

Great.......2007-01-30

Great movies. If you don't own them, you should. Fistful of Dollars is my favorite out of the three but Good Bad and the Ugly is still amazing. If you are a real Clint fan or Spaggette Western fan you should add this to your collection.

For a Few Dollars More (2-Disc Collector's Edition)

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Man With No Name Meets Man With A Name
Postcards?
This better be fixed
DOES THIS FILM HAVE EXTRA 'RESTORED' FOOTAGE?
Best of the Leones

For a Few Dollars More (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Starring: Tomas Blanco , Mario Brega , Roberto Camardiel , Lee Van Cleef , and Rosemarie Dexter
Director: Sergio Leone
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"The leading icon of a generation" (Roger Ebert), Academy Award(r) winner* Clint Eastwood continues his trademark role as the legendary "Man With No Name" in this second installment of the famous Sergio Leone trilogy. Scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni and featuring Ennio Morricone's haunting musical score, For A Few Dollars More is a modern classicone of the greatest Westerns evermade. Eastwood is a keen-eyed, quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of Indio, the territory's most treacherous bandit. But his ruthless rival, Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef, High Noon), is determined to bring Indio in first...dead or alive! Failing to capture their preyor eliminate each otherthe two are left with only one option: team up, or face certain death atthe hands of Indio and his band of murderous outlaws.

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Man With No Name Meets Man With A Name.......2007-06-24

What Sergio Leone did for Clint Eastwood in "A Fistful of Dollars" he does for Lee Van Cleef in "For a Few Dollars More". Best known (or unknown) as a bit player most notably in "High Noon" Van Cleef was living in obscurity as a painter in California until Leone plucked him for the role of Colonel Mortimer. Van Cleef brings a vitality to the role of the bounty hunter whose motives aren't clear until the film's end. Clint Eastwood, who doesn't have a name here, wisely defers the spotlight to Van Cleef. Leone, an astute judge of talent, would subsequently do the same for Eli Wallach in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" and Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson in "Once Upon a Time in the West". Gian Maria Volonte also does a delicious turn as the villainous Indio who makes more than an adequate adversary to Mortimer. Despite the film's many qualities, not least another excellent Ennio Morricone score, I don't give it the full five star treatment because the story has a few lulls. A little tightening in the editing room wouldn't have hurt.

Postcards?.......2007-06-07

I'm glad I didn't dump my copy of the previous "collectors edition" of G/B/U when I first pre-ordered the Leone Anthology set, because the cool set of postcards reproducing international posters from G/B/U is NOT included in that set.

Does anyone know if this individual "collectors edition" release of For a Few Dollars More comes with any such goodies?

This better be fixed.......2007-06-02

I'm buying this thing just to have it, even though I'm pretty sure I can do all the lines by heart, but they better have fixed the audio track, in the last DVD it was off a good half second. Of the three I prefer this one, the story line is simple, the buddy theme with Lee Van Cleef is even better than GBU, and Indio is one of the best bad guys ever.

Follow up: Well, it appears to me that the soundtrack has been fixed, and follows the film as close as you could expect, given how it was made (English voice overs of course). Great, so I have a solid copy of this. I've only seen it about 150 times already, and it's a staple on TV, but some things you need to have.

DOES THIS FILM HAVE EXTRA 'RESTORED' FOOTAGE?.......2007-05-29

I REALLY like films with restored footage. The Good, The, Bad, and the Ugly had about 17 minutes or so. 'DAS BOOT' must hold some kind of record at over 60 minutes. Whan y'all get the new 2 disc DVD set, please add a review about how many minutes were put back in. NO point in buying it if there is no extra footage. THANKS!

Best of the Leones.......2007-05-27

I have a particular fondess for the second Dollars flick.
More fun, more characters, better story than FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. That movie was more like a dry run for the spaghetti-western he had in mind to make later.

I think this movie is more satisfying sometimes than THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY.
"UGLY" will always be a masterpiece, but i love FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE just as much if not more.

It may have to do with the shorter running time of FOR A FEW... the "building the bridge" segment in "UGLY" takes up too much time in my opinion.

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this is even better than the first one
Best of the "trilogy"
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A poor copy of a great movie

For A Few Dollars More
Starring: Tomás Blanco , Roberto Camardiel , Clint Eastwood , Joseph Egger , and Klaus Kinski
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A ringing instance of a sequel far outstripping its predecessor, Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More takes the lethal antihero from A Fistful of Dollars, gives him both a rival and an adversary worthy of sharing a gun-blazing corrida, and ratchets up the stylization to something approaching grandeur. This time the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) is a bounty hunter whose desert Southwest killing ground is suddenly crowded by the presence of an older, black-clad shootist (Lee Van Cleef). Individually and together, they terminate sundry grotesques while closing in on their biggest quarry, a memorably insane bandit called El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté is brilliant). There's just enough plot to imbue Van Cleef with genuine mystery, a dark avenging angel from a lost past whose pull would supply the emotional core of Leone's later masterworks Once upon a Time in the West and Once upon a Time in America. Leone's bravura widescreen compositions are breathtaking, and Ennio Morricone's music score--tinged with lunatic religiosity--is his first great one. --Richard T. Jameson

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"The leading icon of a generation" (Roger Ebert), Academy AwardÂ(r) winner* Clint Eastwood continues his trademark role as the legendary "Man With No Name" in this second installment of the famous Sergio Leone trilogy. Scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni and featuring Ennio Morricone's haunting musical score, For A Few Dollars More is a modern classicone of the greatest Westerns evermade. Eastwood is a keen-eyed, quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of Indio, the territory's most treacherous bandit. But his ruthless rival, Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef, High Noon), is determined to bring Indio in first...dead or alive! Failing to capture their preyor eliminate each otherthe two are left with only one option: team up, or face certain death atthe hands of Indio and his band of murderous outlaws.

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this is even better than the first one.......2007-04-06

i think this movie's production budget was definitely bigger than the prequel. there were lot of improvement in this sequel, screenplay, settings, costumes, make-up....all looked much much richer than the 'fistful...'. this is a very exciting viewing experience. did you ever realize that if it's not clint eastwood who played this lone gunman, all these franchise-like italian western could be so successful? i don't think so. because if you searched in the casting data bank, nobody but clint eastwood could deliver such charisma, chemistry and this larger-than-life screen image.

Best of the "trilogy".......2007-03-17

I'm gonna keep this short. I finally slogged through the entire Sergio Leone spaghetti western trilogy with Clint Eastwood, and it is clear to me that the second film, For a Few Dollars More, is the most entertaining of the three. The first film has its moments, but it's rough and low budget, as you might expect, so the second film was a jolt of fresh air and a lot of fun to watch.

In contrast, the third film--The Good, The Bad & The Ugly--was downright plodding and dull. There were certainly scenes, or parts of scenes that were excellent, such as the finale, and you can tell from the hundreds of extras and big sets that Leone had a lot more money to work with here, but so many scenes were drawn out way too long.

What's more, the movie relied too much on coincidence and deus ex machina to keep things moving "forward." I put that in quotes, because the movie doesn't have any driving motor until a little over an hour through, when we finally find out what the plot is actually about. I got bored a lot, and that's something I don't usually say.

Finally, for those eager to see Lee Van Cleef opposite Clint Eastwood, he gets more screen time in For a Few Dollars More, and I liked his character a LOT better in this film than in the third installment.

I'm a chick-flick chick and I LOVE this western!.......2007-03-10

I know that out of The Man With No Name trilogy, I'm "suppose" to like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly the best and A Fistful of Dollars as the second best, but somehow I always find myself popping in this DVD out of the three, simply for the sheer entertainment of it. It's truly my favorite.

For a Few Dollars More is entertaining, character driven, humorous, rich in great Leone direction and cinematography and simply a great western flick.

Two mysterious bounty hunters competing for the same villain with a high $$ bounty on his head makes for a great story premise. The older more seasoned Colonel (Van Cleef) patiently allowing the younger Monco (Eastwood) to believe he has the upper hand on several occasions produces many laugh out loud moments throughout the movie. I love how both of these talented actors never outshine the other because their chemistry and testosterone is equally matched shot-for-shot, wit-for-wit, death stare-for-death stare, scene-for-scene.

Villains who do not talk much but have you leaning forward to listen when they do speak is always a great thing! Gian Maria Volante cast again for this 2nd installment in the trilogy as Indio was a brilliant move. Volante pulls the villainous Indio off with a strong presence and is convincing as the leader of the group of men of ill-repute who do not hesitate to do his bidding.

The Leone films are enjoyable for a multitude of reasons, among many are his casting choices for even the smallest of the film's roles. The hotel patroness, the mercenary little boy and the insecure huntchback characters all add to the entertainment of this film.

**Added (spoilery):
Some people have mentioned how unrealistic it was for the Colonel not to partake of the reward money at the end. I have to say, to question that point it is to have missed the GREAT character study that is the colonel. It spoke volumes to how much he loved his sister. To take the money would have been to water down the emotion that drove him cross-country to find her rapist and avenge her death. I LOVE this movie!

A CLASSIC BY A MASTER FILMAKER SERGIO LEONE.......2007-01-12

By the time I saw this film as a 14 or 15 year old boy in the mid-1960's, I was already a "disciple" of both Sergio Leone / Clint Eastwood (as I had seen A Fistful of Dollars a year or two earlier).

By the time this film rolled around, I was already of the opinion that NOBODY made westerns as well as Leone - certainly not any American director (and this is a big statement for me as I was a HUGE admirer of John Ford.

For A Few Dollars More built on the "genius" that we could see in A Fistful of Dollars. However, we could now add a favorite of mine to the mix - Lee Van Cleef. The chemistry between the young bounty hunter - Eastwood and the "old man" - Colonel Mortimer - was great to watch on the screen. I'm not the least bit surprised that Leone decided to pair these guys together again in the final installment The Good The Bad and The Ugly.

You watch these movies and they really are like nothing you had ever seen prior. Leone loved "close in" shots (watch the famous gunfight scenes in The Good The Bad and The Ugly or Once Upon A Time In the West)- he let the character's eyes and expressions and "body language" do the talking.

Or the clothes - watch an american western of that time and chances are the character was wearing a well fitting, clean shirt / pants / etc. In these films, the clothes were sometime ragged / ripped / dirty / etc.

And the men were rarely always clean shaven - check out any episode of Bonanza and see how often Little Joe or Ben or Hoss had a 5:00 o'clock shadow.

I think this film - and his other masterpieces really did depict the way the American west of the latter half of the 19th century really was.

But I would have to say that the highlight of this film was the gunfight scene at the very end between the bad guy - Indio - and Colonel Mortimer with the time piece playing a simple tune (and accompanied by another of Ennio Morricone's brilliant soundtracks).

Leone included a classic gunfight showdown in both The Good The Bad and The Ugly as well as Once Upon A Time In The West with great camera shots and fantastic music in the background, but this was the first time.

As much as I enjoyed A Fistful of Dollars, I enjoyed this film infinitely more.

Again, if you haven't seen it, you should make a point of doing so.

A poor copy of a great movie.......2007-01-03

This is a great movie in a poor reproduction. This is the second of Sergio Leone's interpretation of the Western, after A Fistful Of Dollars. It is a great film and a must-have for anyone interested in the Western and film-making. It is especially interesting to see Leone's development in this series of films (next is The Good, The Bad, The Ugly) to his ultimate achievement of Once Upon A Time In The West. The final showdown is unforgetable and brilliant.

The copy of the movie on this DVD is of poor quality. The video appeared to have been taken from a distributed film copy and thus has repeated scratches and blemishes. The audio is poorly tracked, giving the film the quality of a very poor dubbing. This DVD also has no features. It is a basic and careless copy of a poor copy of the film. If a commemorative release were made of this film, from the master reels and with greater care (and bonus features), you should wait for it (such as was done with Once Upon A Time In The West). Until then, all you have is this. At least it was fairly inexpensive.

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Release Date: 2007-05-08

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This giftset includes 10 favorite classic westerns including: The Big Country, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Extended Cut (2-Disc Collector's Edition), Hang 'Em High, Heaven's Gate, Hour of the Gun, The Magnificent Seven (Collector's Edition), The Missouri Breaks and Red River.