ENG: For a few dollars more
Love it love it love it, always have, both protagonists are in my heart.
It starts with the colonel on a train that isn’t supposed to stop where he wants, so he uses the emergency breaks and steps out with his horse, and when they see his guns nobody dares complain, even though he says nothing, threatens nobody. His first stop is at a brothel, where he shoots a man for a bounty of 1000$. He asks about another wanted man, but Manco got him first, while he was playing cards (:lol I asked wikipedia and it says he’s called Manco in English, I don’t know why, maybe because it just sounds like Monco, which is not a name at all :lol)
Manco tells the people to find another sheriff, since that one didn’t seem to be doing his job :)
Some men free El Indio from prison, there’s a 10.000$ bounty just for him.
Indio kills the man who shot him and sent him to prison, betrayed him, only after he kills his wife and baby boy because now he hates him enough.
Colonel Douglas Mortimer asks a bank for the safest bank of all, and it’s El Paso, not even Indio would dare rob that one, they say, so Mortimer knows that’s where he’ll go.
The colonel and Manco are in two different hotels, one across the others. At the saloon, there are four men, and the colonel angers one by lighting a fire-match on his hunchback, and still they do nothing, they go out. There’s a very good reason if men like that don’t react.
They all (good and bad ones) count the seconds the guards need to walk the perimeter of the bank. Manco asks a ‘friend’ called Prophet about the Colonel: a great man, now a bounty killer. Manco wants him to go away, doesn’t want competition, and the children watch them saying “they act like us” :lol
They’re both good and with no intention to go away, so they talk. The colonel suggests to become ally for three reasons: it’s 14 against 2 (if not ally it becomes 15 against 1), and when two regiments attack the same position, they end up shooting each other.
The colonel has a plan: Manco frees a man from prison, one of Indio’s men, then he joins the gang. Done that, he has to go to Santa Cruz and he kills the three men with him then he has the telegraph man send a false signal about the bank being robbed. This way, lots of men from El Paso leave the town. Indio and his men rob El Paso now while our two watch.
Manco wants to break the alliance because his plan didn’t work, they were caught by surprise by how El Indio did it. The colonel then shoots him in the neck, merely an injury so he can explain to Indio why he’s the only one who came back, and tells him to suggests going North to Indio.
Indio actually wanted to go North, but Manco suggests East. They reach a town where Manco meets the colonel again, they shoot some apples.
Everyone joins in the tavern, and when challenged, the colonel shoots the hunchback. Then he offers his services in opening the safe without damaging the money, and he does it.
At this point, Indio orders everyone to stay put, there all together.
At night, Manco and the colonel try to get the money but are caught by Indio and Niño and they both are beaten up good.
Indio plans to have them all kill each other so he’ll keep all the money, he always knew Manco was a bounty hunter, and the other one too, so he’s using them to get rid of the others.
He himself kills Slim and Cuchillo and orders everyone to kill our two heroes, knowing they are not able to best them.
Still, Indio finds an empty safe because they threw the money up a tree, big problem in his plan.
Before they do all the fighting, the colonel asks Manco to leave the Indio to him.
So, let’s count. Manco already killed 3 and the colonel one= 4 Indio killed 2= 6
During the big fight, they get one each, behind their backs =8, Groggy kills el Niño =9, The colonel kills two in a shed =11, Manco kills two in a house =13, but Manco freed one, so the 14 became 15, so there’s another one plus Indio around.
Douglas Mortimer, the colonel, now calls out for Indio to show up and face him; Indio does not play fair, of course: Groggy comes out first, distracting the colonel who shoots him giving Indio the chance to catch him by surprise and disarm him.
It seems things are very much in Indio’s favour at this point. Indio likes his game and starts the music, but when it is about to stop, it starts up again. It’s Manco, who took the watch the colonel dropped. We already saw Indio’s memory of when he saw a young couple in love, and he killed the husband and raped the wife, who killed herself during it. Indio has the watch to remember it.
Manco gives his own gun to the colonel who doesn’t have one on hand right now, then he steps back to watch the duel. The colonel kills Indio. Hurray.
The colonel takes the other watch as well, who has the picture of a woman inside.
‘There’s an air of family in that picture’ - ‘“it happens sometimes, between brother and sister”
Then the colonel tells him he’s rich now, just him, and rides away. Manco takes all the bodies, he needs them for the bounty, and starts counting money. he shoots Groggy who was not dead yet. The colonel hears the shot and turns, worried, but Manco is all cool, “nothing, old man, the numbers didn’t add up”
The end.
Love it love it love it.
Manco - Clint Eastwood
Colonel Douglas Mortimer - Lee Van Cleef
El Indio - Gian Maria Volonté
Wild, the hunchback - Klaus Kinski
Groggy - Luigi Pistilli
Prophet - Joseph Egger
El Niño - Mario Brega
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