For a Few Extra Dollars
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For a Few Extra Dollars, aka Fort Yuma Gold and Die Now, Pay Later (in original Italian: Per pochi dollari ancora), is a 1966
Italian
Spaghetti Western
war film
directed by Giorgio Ferroni. Its stars Giuliano Gemma
, Dan Vadis
and Sophie Daumier
. The film is set at Fort Yuma
in Arizona
and is also known as Fort Yuma Gold.
The film related the story of Southerner Major Sanders (Jacques Sernas
), who continues fighting the North after the conclusion of the American Civil War
. Former Rebel Gary Diamond (Giuliano Gemma
), now a guide, leads a pair of Union soldiers to obstruct Sanders before he can pull off a raid on Fort Yuma
. However the others are unaware that Diamond knows that one of the Union officers is actually Sanders' spy. More complications ensue, pairing Diamond with the aptly named saloon-girl Connie Breastful (Sophie Daumier). Later Diamond is found to be a traitor and is tortured severely before Sanders' plot is foiled.
Despite the name similarity, the film is not a part of Sergio Leone
's Dollars trilogy
. Evidently the film was inspired by this and several actors including José Calvo
, Antonio Molino Rojo
and Benito Stefanelli
had appeared in Leone's films. Stefanelli in particular had starred in all three of Leones dollars films and had acted as a translator on set between the Italians and Clint Eastwood
. Incidentally, Dan Vadis
who plays a major role as Riggs in this film would go on to appear in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter
in 1973.
Gianni Ferrio collaborated with Leone's score composer Ennio Morricone
to produce the score. The soundtrack combines many the sounds from The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Following the barn scene in which several men are killed, the emphatic Latin trumpets and Spanish guitar play together in one track, seeming to combine two familiar soundtracks from the other film together as one.
On release in the United States, several of the cast members and production team had their names changed for the English audience.
released the film in the United States with the title "Fort Yuma Gold" (see left).
Italian films of 1966
A list of films produced in Italy in 1966 :-A-K:-L-Z:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...
Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...
war film
War film
War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...
directed by Giorgio Ferroni. Its stars Giuliano Gemma
Giuliano Gemma
-Biography:Born in Rome, Gemma first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film Arrivano i titani . He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo as Garibaldi's General...
, Dan Vadis
Dan Vadis
Dan Vadis was an actor of Greek descent with lineage tracing back to the infamous island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. This former U.S...
and Sophie Daumier
Sophie Daumier
Sophie Daumier was a French film actress. She appeared in 28 films between 1956 and 1979.She was born as Elisabeth Hugon in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, the daughter of composer Georges Hugon...
. The film is set at Fort Yuma
Fort Yuma
Fort Yuma is a fort in California that is located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861 and was abandoned May 16, 1883, and transferred to the Department of the Interior. The Fort Yuma Indian School and a...
in Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
and is also known as Fort Yuma Gold.
Plot
Jacques Sernas
Jacques Sernas is a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.-Early life and education:He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, the son of Jokūbas Šernas, a signatory of the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania, who died when Sernas was a year old. His mother took him to Paris,...
), who continues fighting the North after the conclusion of the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
. Former Rebel Gary Diamond (Giuliano Gemma
Giuliano Gemma
-Biography:Born in Rome, Gemma first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film Arrivano i titani . He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo as Garibaldi's General...
), now a guide, leads a pair of Union soldiers to obstruct Sanders before he can pull off a raid on Fort Yuma
Fort Yuma
Fort Yuma is a fort in California that is located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861 and was abandoned May 16, 1883, and transferred to the Department of the Interior. The Fort Yuma Indian School and a...
. However the others are unaware that Diamond knows that one of the Union officers is actually Sanders' spy. More complications ensue, pairing Diamond with the aptly named saloon-girl Connie Breastful (Sophie Daumier). Later Diamond is found to be a traitor and is tortured severely before Sanders' plot is foiled.
Cast
- Giuliano GemmaGiuliano Gemma-Biography:Born in Rome, Gemma first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film Arrivano i titani . He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo as Garibaldi's General...
as Montgomery Wood - Gary Diamond - Jacques SernasJacques SernasJacques Sernas is a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.-Early life and education:He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, the son of Jokūbas Šernas, a signatory of the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania, who died when Sernas was a year old. His mother took him to Paris,...
- Maj. Sanders - Dan VadisDan VadisDan Vadis was an actor of Greek descent with lineage tracing back to the infamous island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. This former U.S...
- Nelson Riggs - Sophie DaumierSophie DaumierSophie Daumier was a French film actress. She appeared in 28 films between 1956 and 1979.She was born as Elisabeth Hugon in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, the daughter of composer Georges Hugon...
- Connie Breastfull - Nello PazzafiniNello PazzafiniNello Pazzafini was an Italian actor who appeared in a very large number of gladiator movies and Spaghetti Westerns. He was an ex-bodyguard and often played a "tough guy" character.-Partial filmography:*Wanted...
as Red Carter - Sgt. Brian Pitt - José CalvoJosé CalvoJosé Calvo was a Spanish film actor best known for his roles in western films or historical dramas.He made around 150 appearances mostly in films between 1952 and his death in 1980. He entered film in 1952 and was prolific as an actor throughout the 1950s and 1960s...
- Gordon/Golden .44 - Ángel del Pozo - Capt. Lefevre
- Jacques Herlin as Arlen Jacques - Riggs - prisoner, Davis camp
- Andrea BosicAndrea BosicAndrea Bosic is an Italian film actor of Slovene origin. He appeared in 52 films between 1951 and 1985, mainly in so-called Spaghetti western...
- Colonel - Davis camp - Antonio Molino RojoAntonio Molino RojoAntonio Molino Rojo , was a Spanish film actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and 1970s....
- Brian - Benito StefanelliBenito StefanelliBenito Stefanelli was an Italian film actor and stuntman who made over 60 appearances in film between 1955 and 1991....
as Benny Reeves - Juko - Furio Meniconi as Men Fury - Calvin/Johnny Newman
- José Manuel Martín - Sam
- Jacques Stany - Elijah Murdock
- Lorenzo RobledoLorenzo RobledoLorenzo Robledo was a Spanish film actor, who made over 85 appearances in film between 1956 and 1982. He is a familiar face in Italian westerns appearing in a total of 32 Spaghetti Western films throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.Robledo is probably best known in world cinema for his roles in...
- Capt. Taylor - Riccardo Pizzuti as Rick Piper - Corporal Wilson
- Guglielmo Spoletini as William Spoletinit - Rigg henchman
- Gianni Marturano as John Matthews - Rigg henchman
- Paolo Magalotti - Confederate soldier
- Mimmo Poli - saloon patron
- Alfonso Rojas - Ft. Yuma Colonel
- Roberto Alexander as Robert Alexander, Pierre Cressoy]] as Peter Carter, Alberto Ceverini, Leonardo Mendez as Leonardo Martin, Juan Cazalilla, Claude Hills, Serge MarquandSerge MarquandSerge Marquand was a French actor and film producer of advanced leukemia.He was the brother of Nadine Trintignant and Christian Marquand.- Filmography :* 1959 : Les Liaisons dangereuses by Roger Vadim : un skieur...
, Angel Menendez
The Leone connection
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...
's Dollars trilogy
Dollars Trilogy
The "Dollars Trilogy" , also known as the "Man with No Name Trilogy", refers to the three Spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone: A Fistful of Dollars , For a Few Dollars More , and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly .A Fistful of Dollars is an unofficial remake of...
. Evidently the film was inspired by this and several actors including José Calvo
José Calvo
José Calvo was a Spanish film actor best known for his roles in western films or historical dramas.He made around 150 appearances mostly in films between 1952 and his death in 1980. He entered film in 1952 and was prolific as an actor throughout the 1950s and 1960s...
, Antonio Molino Rojo
Antonio Molino Rojo
Antonio Molino Rojo , was a Spanish film actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and 1970s....
and Benito Stefanelli
Benito Stefanelli
Benito Stefanelli was an Italian film actor and stuntman who made over 60 appearances in film between 1955 and 1991....
had appeared in Leone's films. Stefanelli in particular had starred in all three of Leones dollars films and had acted as a translator on set between the Italians and Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
. Incidentally, Dan Vadis
Dan Vadis
Dan Vadis was an actor of Greek descent with lineage tracing back to the infamous island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. This former U.S...
who plays a major role as Riggs in this film would go on to appear in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter
High Plains Drifter
High Plains Drifter is a 1973 American Western film, with a hint of the supernatural, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood and produced by Robert Daley for The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. Eastwood plays a mysterious gunfighter hired by the residents of a corrupt frontier mining town...
in 1973.
Gianni Ferrio collaborated with Leone's score composer Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
to produce the score. The soundtrack combines many the sounds from The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Following the barn scene in which several men are killed, the emphatic Latin trumpets and Spanish guitar play together in one track, seeming to combine two familiar soundtracks from the other film together as one.
On release in the United States, several of the cast members and production team had their names changed for the English audience.
Releases
Wild EastWild East
Wild East, or Wild East Productions Inc., is a New York-based DVD company that specializes in releasing limited editions of spaghetti westerns and other cult Italian and Spanish genre movies.-History:...
released the film in the United States with the title "Fort Yuma Gold" (see left).