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Join us at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 28th, for Sergio Leone’s 1965 Spaghetti Western “For a Few Dollars More.”
This screening is part of a special Saturday series at the Cosford celebrating the work of visionary filmmaker Sergio Leone and his legendary “Dollars Trilogy” — “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964), “For a Few Dollars More” (1965), and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).”
With these films, Leone reinvented the Western. Drawing inspiration from Hollywood traditions while sharply critiquing American mythology, the trilogy strips away the genre’s romantic heroism and replaces it with a stark, morally ambiguous world defined by greed, violence, and survival. The result helped launch the “Spaghetti Western” and forever changed the landscape of the genre.
This spring, experience the entire trilogy on the big screen as it was meant to be seen, presented in stunning 4K. This series is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies at the University of Miami.
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE | 1965 | DIRECTOR: Sergio Leone | WITH:Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè | RATED R for violence| RUNNING TIME: 2H 12M | 4K RESTORATION
Screen legends Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef co-star as two rival bounty hunters who join forces to bring murderous bandit El Indio (Gian Maria Volontè) and his vicious gang of criminals to justice. But all is not as it seems in this hard-hitting second installment of Sergio Leone’s trilogy starring Eastwood as the famed “Man with No Name.” Music by legendary composer Ennio Morricone with a stellar cast that includes spaghetti western legends Mario Brega (“A Fistful of Dollars”), Luigi Pistilli (“Death Rides a Horse”), Aldo Sambrell (“Navajo Joe”) and Klaus Kinski (“The Great Silence”).
Admission is FREE, but registration is required at the link above. The screening will include a brief introduction by Cosford Cinema Co-Manger Katlyn Aviles, Ph.D.
“So Westerns had situations, instantly recognizable. The man in the black hat strikes a match on the suspenders of a tough guy at the bar. Two gunmen face each other at each end of a long alley. “For a Few Dollars More” has lots of stuff like that, but it’s on a larger, more melodramatic scale, if that’s possible. Shoot-outs aren’t over in a few minutes like they were in “High Noon.” They last forever.
This is a sequel to “A Fistful of Dollars,” which I didn’t see but wish I had. Both films were shot in Italy, with English-speaking actors in the leads and Italians in the bit parts with dubbed dialog. Clint Eastwood, as The Man With No Name, is formidable: He chews and spits out dozens of cigars.
Lee Van Cleef, as Col. Mortimer, looks like an infinitely weary Clark Gable. He carries an arsenal with him. After a memorable duel in which they shoot each other’s hats to pieces, Eastwood and Van Cleef join up to collect the reward for the desperado Indio (Gian Maria Volonte).
The rest of the film is one great old Western cliché after another. They aren’t done well, but they’re over-done well, and every situation is drawn out so that you can savor it.” – Roger Ebert
