In the second film in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western trilogy (A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS being the first & THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY the last) the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) teams up with gunslinger Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) in order to extract reward money from Indio (Gian Maria Volonte) a mean & vicious bandit There is little doubt as to No Name's financial intentions in the hunt but Mortimer seems to be driven by something a bit deeper A series of flashbacks (which would become a Leone signature device) provides the background for Colonel Mortimer's anger & desire for revenge Morricone's score combined with Leone's trademark long & lingering shots bring the viewer ever closer to the human side of the Man with No Name Although the film was not released in the United States until 1967 it was produced & released internationally in 1965