For a Few Dollars More

For a Few Dollars More
Italian film poster
Directed by	Sergio Leone
Produced by	Alberto Grimaldi
Screenplay by	Luciano Vincenzoni Sergio Leone Uncredited: Sergio Donati English Version: Luciano Vincenzoni
Story by	Sergio Leone Fulvio Morsella Uncredited: Enzo Dell'Aquila Fernando Di Leo
Starring	Clint Eastwood Lee Van Cleef Gian Maria Volontè Luigi Pistilli Aldo Sambrell Klaus Kinski Mario Brega
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Massimo Dallamano
Edited by	Giorgio Serrallonga
Production company	Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA) Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas
Distributed by	PEA (Italy) United Artists (US & UK)
Release date	18 November 1965 (1965-11-18) (Italy)
Running time	132 minutes
Country	Italy Spain
Language	Italian English
Budget	$600,000
Box office	$15 million

For a Few Dollars More (Italian: Per qualche dollaro in più) is a 1965 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Gian Maria Volontè. German actor Klaus Kinski also plays a supporting role as a secondary villain. The film was released in the United States in 1967 and is the second part of what is commonly known as the Dollars Trilogy, following A Fistful of Dollars and preceding The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. These three films catapulted Eastwood into stardom.

Film historian Richard Schickel, in his biography of Clint Eastwood, believed that this was the best film in the trilogy, arguing that it was "more elegant and complex than A Fistful of Dollars and more tense and compressed than The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Director Alex Cox considered the church scene to be "the most horrible deaths" of any Western, describing Volontè's Indio as the "most diabolical Western villain of all time."

The Man with No Name—"Monco"/"Manco"— and Colonel Douglas Mortimer—the "Man in Black"—are two bounty killers in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the Wild West, and his gang. El Indio is ruthless, clever, and brutal. He has a musical pocketwatch that he plays before engaging in gun duels: "When the chimes finish, begin," he says. Flashbacks reveal that El Indio took the watch from a young woman whom he found with her lover. He killed the lover and raped the woman, during which she killed herself. There is a photograph of the woman inside the cover of the watch.

Mortimer illegally stops a train in Tucumcari and kills Guy Calloway, displaying both his arsenal of weapons and his gun-slinging skill as he easily kills Calloway at long range while the outlaw is shooting at him. After collecting a bounty of $1,000, Mortimer inquires about Red "Baby" Cavanagh, who has a $2,000 bounty on him and was last seen in White Rocks. He learns that Cavanagh has already been targeted by "Manco" ("Manco", "one-armed" in Spanish — see below for an explanation).