For a Few Extra Dollars [Per pochi dollari ancora] *** (1966, Giuliano Gemma, Dan Vadis, José Calvo, Ángel del Pozo, Sophie Daumier, Jacques Sernas) – Classic Movie Review 9347

Giuliano Gemma (billed as Montgomery Wood) stars in director Giorgio Ferroni’s superior 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film For a Few Extra Dollars [Per pochi dollari ancora] as former Confederate raider Gary Diamond, now a guide who leads a pair of Union soldiers to obstruct Confederate Major Sanders (Jacques Sernas) before he tries to pull off a raid on the heavily defended Yankee Fort Yuma in Arizona.

Diamond teams up with the exotic saloon girl Connie Breastfull (Sophie Daumier) but later he is found to be a traitor, and tortured.

It also stars Dan Vadis, José Calvo, and Ángel del Pozo.

It is also known as Fort Yuma Gold and Die Now, Pay Later.

It is shot in Technicolor by Rafael Pacheco in Spain on various locations around Madrid.

It is made by Fida Cinematografica, Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld, and Época Films S.A, and runs 96 minutes.

Ferroni is credited as Calvin J Padget,

The screenplay is by Augusto Finocchi, Massimiliano Capriccioli, Sandro Continenza, Remigio Del Grosso, Leonardo Martín and Gilles Morris-Dumoulin. It is inspired by Jules Verne’s 1876 novel Miguel Strogoff.

The score is by Gianni Ferrio (music and conductor) and Ennio Morricone (composer: theme music). It includes some parts of Morricone’s score for Malamondo (1964). Morricone sued the production and the dispute was settled in court in 1973.

Giuliano Gemma (as Montgomery Wood) stars as Gary Diamond.

The cast are Giuliano Gemma (as Montgomery Wood) as Gary Diamond, Jacques Sernas as Major Sanders, Dan Vadis as Nelson Riggs, Sophie Daumier as Connie Breastfull, Nello Pazzafini (as Red Carter) as Sergeant Brian Pitt, José Calvo as Gordon/ Golden .44, Ángel del Pozo as Captain Lefevre, Jacques Herlin (as Arlen Jacques) as traitor Riggs,  Andrea Bosic as Union Colonel, Benito Stefanelli as Juko (as Benny Reeves), Antonio Molino Rojo as Confederate Officer Brian, Furio Meniconi (as Men Fury) as Calvin/ Johnny Newman, José Manuel Martín as Sam, Riccardo Pizzuti (as Rick Piper) as Corporal Wilson, Jacques Stany as Elijah Murdock. Alberto Cevenini, Lorenzo Robledo as Captain Taylor, Roberto Alessandri, Peter Cabot and Giuseppe Mattei, Claudio Scarchilli and Guglielmo Spoletini as Riggs henchmen.

The cheeky title is very similar to the previous year’s Clint Eastwood hit For a Few Dollars More [Per qualche dollaro in più] (1965).

It re-appeared on Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment in 2019 in the US.

Dan Vadis (1938–1987).

Dan Vadis died of accidental drug overdose on 11 June 1987 in Lancaster, California, aged 49.

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