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Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) More at IMDbPro »

• Director Trademark: [Sergio Leone] [theme] Monco, Col. Mortimer, and Indio.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Sergio Leone] [flashbacks]
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Sergio Leone] [extreme close-up]
  
  
• Sergio Leone originally wanted Lee Marvin for the role of Douglas Mortimer.
  
  
• Aldo Sambrell's character name "Cochelio" is the English spelling of the Spanish word "cuchillo", which means knife.
  
  
• Lee Van Cleef claimed to be faster on the draw than Clint Eastwood. He took three frames of film (one eighth of a second) to draw, cock and fire.
  
  
• The safe that Indio robs with his gang in El Paso contains Confederate dollar notes.
  
  
• The Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood) calls himself Manco in this film. "Manco" is Spanish for "lame of one hand", "one handed" or "one armed", which is pretty appropriate considering his habit of fighting, drinking, etc with his left hand only. His right hand always remains on his gun underneath his trademark poncho. (The assertion that his name is Monco is baseless, as that Italian word has nothing to do in Spanish-speaking towns of the South West of America.)
  
  
• Although Clint Eastwood's poncho was never washed during the production of the "Dollar" trilogy, it was mended. In the final scene of Per un pugno di dollari (1964), the poncho is pierced by seven bullets from Ramon's Winchester. In the sequel, Eastwood wears the same poncho back-to-front and the mending of the bullet holes is clearly visible in several scenes. The mended area, originally on the left breast, is now worn over the right shoulder blade.
  
  
• "Monco" is NOT the same character as "Joe" in Per un pugno di dollari (1964). This was the finding of an Italian court that adjudicated the lawsuit brought by Jolly Films, producer of "A Fistful of Dollars". After the release of the first film, director Sergio Leone had a falling out with the producers and made this sequel with a different producer, 'Alberto Grimaldi'. Jolly Films sued, claiming ownership of the "Joe" character, but lost when the court decided that the western gunfighter's persona, characterized by the costume and mannerisms, belonged to the public domain's folklore.
  
  
• Sergio Leone also considered Robert Ryan for the role of Col. Mortimer, being a fan of his performance in The Naked Spur (1953).
  
  
• On its 1969 re-release it was double-billed with Per un pugno di dollari (1964) (A Fistful of Dollars).
  
  
• Gian Maria Volonté played two different roles in this movie and it's sequel Per un pugno di dollari (1964) (A Fistful of Dollars). In the original, he played Ramon Rojo and in this movie he played El Indio.
  
  
• Final film of Joseph Egger.
  
  
• Director Sergio Leone did not want to make a sequel to Per un pugno di dollari (1964), but it was such a huge hit that Jolly Film--the production company--refused to pay Leone what it owed him from that film unless he made a sequel to it.
  
  
• Sergio Leone wanted Henry Fonda for the role of Col. Mortimer, but Fonda turned it down. Leone next approached Charles Bronson, who wasn't interested, and Lee Marvin, who refused it because he had just signed to make Cat Ballou (1965). It was then that Leone offered the role to Lee Van Cleef, who hadn't worked in films since How the West Was Won (1962), although he had worked fairly steadily in television. Van Cleef thought that Leone only wanted him for a few scenes, and was astounded when he discovered that he was actually to be the co-star.
  
  

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