Cinematheque: Spaghetti Westerns

Eastwood is a nameless bounty hunter who teams with Col. Mortimer (Van Cleef) to hunt down the vicious Indio (Volonté). Kinski appears as a hunchbacked match book cover and Morricone’s superb score makes excellent use of a musical watch. A quintessential, fully-realized work of art from Leone, this semi-sequel to A Fistful of Dollars is “more elaborate, more imaginatively plotted, better photographed, funnier, more brutal, and more overtly adult and political than the original.” (Danny Peary)