For a Few Dollars More

Leone’s use of sparse, brooding silences and Ennio Morricone’s instantly recognisable score mean that the film’s soundtrack is just as effective as the striking visuals.

The stage is set here for Sergio Leone’s coming masterpieces, which would transcribe this intense, unsettling energy onto a canvas large enough to fit all of its splenetic, bloodletting rage.

Doesn't have the narrative strength of the first in the trilogy but individual scenes are still brilliant and each ingredient in just perfect, cast, score, tone...

Leone's artful editing of close-ups to communicate the characters' spatial relationships is always a pleasure.

A hard-hitting western with upper-case values out of the busy Italo stable, this is a topnotch action entry.

A significant step forward from A Fistful of Dollars, with the usual terrific compositions, Morricone score, and taciturn performances, not to mention the ubiquitous flashback disease.

Another packed Special Edition for a classic Sergei Leone western with shot-by-shot color grading in a wonderful 4K upgrade from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.

While Eastwood is of course the star, this is arguably Van Cleef’s picture.

Cinema greatness! And to top it off, Leone has to have some of the most interesting and strange looking people populating his film that you'd swear Fellini loaned him a band of extras.

This Spaghetti Western masterpiece would only be bested by its own follow-up.