The Man With No Name joins forces with Van Cleef's fellow bounty hunter in this sequel, to take on a psychotic bandit and his gang (including a hunchback Klaus Kinski) The second spaghetti western in Leone's trilogy that includes A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Rival bounty hunters (Eastwood and Van Cleef) compete for the scalp of vicious bandit El Indio (Volonte) before striking an uneasy alliance to catch their man.
Leone's trademark motifs are all present and correct: taciturn, sweat-drenched men of dubious morals scurry through panoramic landscapes to Morricone's artful, twanging score. The film also includes social concerns of Church and family that were absent in 'A Fistful..'. Clint is Clint, but Lee Van Cleef's black-hearted Colonel Mortimer is memorably sinister. Psychopathic though the main characters are, the film is also charged with a mordant sense of humour that refreshes its gun-slinging machismo. Look out for Klaus Kinski, unexpectedly cast as a grovelling hunchback.
Leone's trademark motifs are all present and correct: taciturn, sweat-drenched men of dubious morals scurry through panoramic landscapes to Morricone's artful, twanging score. The film also includes social concerns of Church and family that were absent in 'A Fistful..'. Clint is Clint, but Lee Van Cleef's black-hearted Colonel Mortimer is memorably sinister. Psychopathic though the main characters are, the film is also charged with a mordant sense of humour that refreshes its gun-slinging machismo. Look out for Klaus Kinski, unexpectedly cast as a grovelling hunchback.