For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più)

Sergio Leone made For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più) in 1965 as a spaghetti western and the second film of his Dollars Trilogy, which opens with A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and ends with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). A co-production between Italy, West Germany and Spain, it was hugely popular on release, became a cult favourite and appears on many best-film lists; it also did better than the first film. It reached the US in 1967, where it was marketed as the second chapter of the trilogy.

Clint Eastwood plays the nameless gunman known as Monco, and Lee Van Cleef is Colonel Douglas Mortimer. Both are bounty hunters after the $10,000 reward on the escaped convict El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté). Rivals at first, they team up to infiltrate his gang and wreck a planned bank robbery. What drives Mortimer is not money but revenge. Klaus Kinski plays a second villain, with Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, Josef Egger, Aldo Sambrell and Benito Stefanelli among the rest of the cast.

Leone wrote the screenplay with Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Donati, and Ennio Morricone composed the music. Filming took place around Almería in Spain. The film is a Constantin Film production and runs about 132 minutes.