For a Few Dollars More (1998, DVD)

This is one of the three movies that put "Rawhide s" Clint Eastwood on the map as a major motion picture star. For that reason, it is well worth seeing. In my opinion, it is the better of the three, the other two being Director Sergio Leone s "A Fistful of Dollars" and overlong "The Good, the Bad,

Following the release of 1964's A Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Leone had finally gained the success he craved for while the film not only became a hit in his native Italy but a year later, it was an international hit before finally reaching the U.S. in 1967. The film not only reinvented the Western genre but introduced the film world to Clint Eastwood. While A Fistful of Dollars was a great springboard to Leone, the Italian director didn't want to repeat himself as he decided to take everything he did in his previous film and pump up it even more into a sequel that didn't just take the Man with.

For a Few Dollars More is the middle film of Sergio Leone's classic western trilogy starring a then upstart Clint Eastwood. Sandwiched between A Fistful of Dollars and the finale, The Good, the Bad,

Sergio Leone s Dollars Trilogy, or the story of Clint Eastwood as the Man With No Name took its middle entry with 1965 s FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE. Initially, Eastwood didn t want to take part in the film, especially since the first film, A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, hadn t even been released in English yet. Thankfully for movie audiences, Eastwood decided to again play the role which made him famous, and we now can marvel at Leone s spaghetti western trilogy because of Eastwood s presence. The Dollars trilogy truly is one of, if not the most astounding cinema trilogies ever produced; I would say that..