This is the second movie in director Sergio Leone\u2019s \u201cMan with No Name\u201d trilogy but Clint Eastwood actually does have a name in this story.\u00a0 He\u2019s called Manco.\u00a0 This is the story of two bounty hunters.\u00a0 Manco (played by Eastwood) and Colonel Mortimer (played by Lee Van Cleef) are killing outlaws and collecting bounties when they meet up.\u00a0 After a contest to see whose marksmanship is better, they team up to take down \u201cEl Indio\u201d and his gang. \u00a0El Indio is a psychopathic killer whose gang has just broken him out of prison by killing all the guards and the warden.\u00a0 Indio has a pocket watch with a music box built into it.\u00a0 When he wants to have a shootout with someone he says, \u201cDraw when the song ends.\u201d\u00a0 And usually, he kills the opponent.\u00a0 But the song is so long and annoying I think most of the victims decide to die of gunshot wounds rather than live with the memory of the boredom of that song.<\/p>\n
Indo is planning to rob the El Paso bank and Mortimer convinces Manco to join Indio\u2019s gang and act as the inside man to allow Mortimer and Manco to finish off the gang.\u00a0 The plan sort of works.\u00a0 Manco manages to kill three of Indio\u2019s men during a diversionary operation and Mortimer is able to gain Indio\u2019s confidence too by helping Indo open the stolen safe using powerful acid to dissolve the lock.<\/p>\n
But when Manco and Mortimer try to steal the bank money from Indio they are caught and beaten savagely in advance of their deaths.\u00a0 Then a bunch of weird stuff happens that has Indo and some of his lieutenants murdering each other to increase their share of the loot.\u00a0 As part of this plan Indio allows for Manco and Mortimer to escape and they finish off killing the gang.\u00a0 By the finale it\u2019s just Manco, Mortimer and Indio.\u00a0 This sets up the duel between Indio and Mortimer.\u00a0 We discover that Indio murdered Mortimer\u2019s brother-in-law then raped his sister causing her to commit suicide.\u00a0 The musical watch was stolen by Indio from the sister.\u00a0 With a little help from Manco the duel is run fairly and Indio is killed.\u00a0 Then Mortimer tells Manco that he can have all the bounties for Indio and the rest of the gang.\u00a0 Mortimer just walks away, apparently finishing his stint as a bounty hunter and Manco loads the bodies on a wagon and takes the bank\u2019s money along too.\u00a0 It\u2019s not at all clear whether he is going to return the money, which is much more than the bounties on the gang, or keep it.<\/p>\n
This is a very enjoyable action film.\u00a0 Eastwood and Van Cleef shoot a lot of bad guys.\u00a0 The bank heist is a good chapter and little touches throughout the story keep the audience\u2019s interest throughout.\u00a0 There are several very humorous situations between the \u201cpartners\u201d including a scene where Mortimer proves to Manco that a long-barreled gun trumps a Colt .45 even if the pistolero is the fastest draw around.<\/p>\n
Indio is such a despicable psychopath that making his death the climax of the movie seems like a reasonable scenario.\u00a0 But unfortunately, the whole musical watch thing is just too annoying.\u00a0 It happens I think three times and by the finale I just wanted Mortimer to shoot Indio as soon as the watch started playing and then shoot the watch just to end the torture.<\/p>\n