Where to watch For a Few Dollars More (1965)

Trivia & production notes

• Sergio Leone had to send an Italian-language print of the first film to Clint Eastwood before he would commit to the sequel, since no English version existed yet.
• Charles Bronson turned down a starring role in the sequel because he felt the script was too similar to the first film's story.
• Clint Eastwood earned $50,000 for the sequel while Lee Van Cleef received $17,000.
• Screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni completed the script in nine days, but director Sergio Leone hired Sergio Donati as an uncredited script doctor to fix dialogue he was unhappy with.
• The entire film was shot without recording sound on set, requiring Eastwood and Van Cleef to return to Italy to dub their dialogue and add sound effects.
• Lee Van Cleef performed his dialogue in his native New Jersey accent instead of a Southern accent, despite the script stating his character was from the Carolinas.
• Production designer Carlo Simi constructed the El Paso town set in the Almería desert, which still stands today as the tourist attraction Mini Hollywood.
• Ennio Morricone composed the score before filming began because director Leone shot scenes to the music on set rather than adding it later.
• The film's recurring musical motif derived from identical pocket watches belonging to two main characters creates a thematic link between their storylines throughout the score.
• The film became the highest-grossing film in Italy by 1967 and also became the highest-grossing Spanish film of all time, outperforming its predecessor commercially in both markets.

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