Per qualche dollaro in piu (little spoilers)

Finally saw Per qualche dollaro in piu. It was good much in the same way as Per un pugno di dollari. The soundtrack was not quite as good, but there was a lot of nice things to compensate for it: Lee Van Cleef, for one thing, and the much better bad guy played by Gian Maria Volonte (he also played the bad guy in Per un pugno di dollari but that role was not nearly as good). And, most of all, Klaus Kinski, who has a small but memorable role as a psychotic killer. He had always played psychotic characters superbly, and now that I am reading his autobiography I am starting to understand why.

Eastwood's and Van Cleef's characters calling each other "boy" and "old man" are somewhat ridiculous, considering that they (the actors) have about 5 years' age difference and both look older than they are.

Now that I have seen all the three movies, I can have an opinion on the much-flamewarred topic of whether Eastwood's chatacter is the same person in Per un pugno di dollari, Per qualche dollaro in piu and Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, and my opinion is that in the first two it might well be the same guy, but in Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo the character is different.