For A Few Dollars More - "..Et Pour Quelques Dollars De Plus"

Year: 1966

Size/Type: French Grande (47" x 63")

Country of Origin: France

Condition: Near Mint minus; originally folded

Director: Sergio Leone

Actor/Actress: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Pistilli, Klaus Kinski, Mara Krupp, Joseph Egger, Panos Papadopulos, and Benito Stefanelli.

Comments: "For a Few Dollars More" has become the template for which most Spaghetti Westerns derive. As Leone went along, his films got more daring and complex, exploring new ideas and raising not only the bar for Spaghetti Westerns, but for Westerns in general..."For a Few Dollars More" is his best film because it catches Leone in his most transitional period. At once the film is more complex and stylized than "A Fistful..." and more tight and efficient than "The Good, the Bad and The Ugly". The revenge sub-plot involving Colonel Mortimer is more compelling than the similar one in Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" because Mortimer is more developed as a character than the Harmonica Player..And hell, it has Lee Van Cleef as one of the biggest bad-asses of all time. Rightly considered a masterpiece of fluff Western entertainment. It's mean, violent and immoral, just the way any good Spaghetti Western should be.