Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: the second part of Sergio Leone’s dollar trilogy.
Shortly after his western For a Fistful of Dollars, released in 1964, Sergio Leone asked screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni to write a sequel. This is how, from the following year, lands on the screens And for a few dollars more.
The film features two competing bounty hunters, The “One Penguin” and Colonel Douglas Mortimer, who decide to team up to stop a cruel and insane bandit. Just escaped from prison, he is about to rob a bank. But their motivations are not necessarily the same…
On screen, Gian Maria Volontè proves to be perfect in the role of the antagonist facing the main duo formed by Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef – who had nevertheless given up on cinema following a serious road accident.
Shot on a relatively modest budget ($600,000), and for a few more dollars accumulated 14 million admissions in Italy, which placed it in first position at the Italian box office for 1965. In the United States, the feature film brought in more than 15 million dollars, while in France it recorded more than 4 million admissions.
On the strength of this success, Sergio Leone concluded his “dollar trilogy” in 1966 with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Not content with having truly launched Clint Eastwood’s career internationally, the filmmaker also revolutionized the genre of the western, then in decline.
His Spaghetti Westerns transformed the Hollywood Western into cruel, realistic tales, whose protagonists are crooks of the worst kind. He reinvented the film grammar of the genre by transforming the spectacular and sublime landscapes of the American West into disturbing and disturbing landscapes.
Finally, the “dollar trilogy” is also cult dialogues, anthology sequences and an original soundtrack by Ennio Morricone, in such adequacy with the story that it becomes a character in its own right.
On AlloCine, and for a few more dollars holds a solid viewer rating average of 4.3/5.
and for a few more dollars by Sergio Leone with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè…
From 10 years old
Tonight on France 3 at 9:10 p.m.