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The Man with No Name is back! Following a recent deluxe expansion of Ennio Morricone's unforgettable score to Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the Italian label Beat Records will follow suit with a generous CD and vinyl expansion of its predecessor and the second film in the "Dollars Trilogy": 1965's For a Few Dollars More.

This hour-plus presentation offers both the original eight-cue soundtrack program issued by RCA Records in Europe on a double bill with selections from Morricone's score to the series' debut A Fistful of Dollars plus the original film score tracks in mono - all remastered by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler. The packaging includes front cover art by Renato Casaro, a back-cover portrait of Morricone drawn by Fuiano. The standard 2LP vinyl will be pressed on transparent white and orange wax and packaged in a gatefold sleeve, while a deluxe edition, limited to just 400 copies, will add two poster prints and a 24-page book of liner notes written by Daniele de Gemini and featuring artwork by Averardo Ciriello, with layout by de Gemini. (Those notes will also be present in the CD version.)

Known as Per qualche dollaro in più in its native Italian, For a Few Dollars More continued A Fistful of Dollars' story of the steely bounty hunter played by American actor Clint Eastwood in a starmaking role. (Dubbed "The Man with No Name" for English audiences, the serape-clad, cigarillo-chewing gunslinger was called "Joe" in a few scenes of Fistful, and is known as "Manco" - Spanish for "one-armed" - in this picture.) This time, he forms an uneasy partnership with a Carolinian army colonel (Lee Van Cleef, who'd later play the villain in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) to track down the ruthless "El Indio" (Gian Maria Volante, who also portrayed a villain in Fistful). Often unfairly overlooked between its predecessor (a spaghetti Western take on Kurosawa's Yojimbo) and stylish successor (one of the greatest Westerns ever made), Leone's film shines thanks in part to another winning, distinctive score by Morricone. Once again, the composer wrote themes ahead of time for the director to shoot footage to; among the motifs was a recurring melody for a musical pocket watch that becomes a major detail as the film unspools. A popular selection in its time, instrumental music from For a Few Dollars More was covered by Hugo Montenegro (whose version of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" was a major U.S. hit) and Billy Strange.

Pre-orders are open at Beat's website, with an expected ship date around December 4.

Per qualche dollaro in più (60th Anniversary Edition) (Beat Records CDX1037, 2024 - original film released 1965)

CD / 2LP / Deluxe 2LP

1. La resa dei conti
2. Poker d'assi
3. Osservatori osservati
4. Il vizio di uccidere
5. Carillon
6. Il colpo
7. Addio colonnello
8. Per qualche dollaro in più
9. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 1)
10. Poker d'assi (Alternate Version)
11. Per qualche dollaro in più (Main Titles Reprise)
12. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 2)
13. La resa dei conti (Reprise)
14. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 3)
15. Per qualche dollaro in più (Main Titles Reprise 2)
16. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 4)
17. La resa dei conti (Reprise 2)
18. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 5)
19. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 6)
20. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 7)
21. Per qualche dollaro in più (Main Titles Reprise 3)
22. Carillon (Reprise)
23. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 8)
24. Per qualche dollaro in più (Main Titles Reprise 4)
25. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 9)
26. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 10)
27. La resa dei conti (Reprise 3)
28. Il vizio di uccidere (Alternate Version)
29. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 11)
30. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 12)
31. Carillon (Reprise 2)
32. Per qualche dollaro in più (Orchestral Theme 13)
33. La resa dei conti (Alternate Version)

Tracks 1-8 released on RCA PML 10414 (IT), 1966
Tracks 9-33 are the original film tracks in mono