FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE
.
Tickets, please!
Tickets! Tickets!
Thank you. Tickets!
- Is it far to Tucumcari? - We'll pass there in a few minutes.
Thanks.
You made a mistake, Reverend.
I heard you're goin' to Tucumcari. You're on the wrong train.
I think the nearest stop to Tucumcari is Amarillo.
Get off at Santa Fe and return by Amarillo.
You'll get right where you're... going.
Er...
You see... the train doesn't stop at Tucumcari.
This train'll stop at Tucumcari.
Take it easy, everybody!
Why did you stop?
Somebody pulled the emergency cord.
You can't pull the cord and jump off!
If you want to get off, you...
Well, the railroad'll be pleased
to make arrangements for anyone who wants to get off here.
I did get off. Thanks.
All right, let's go! Let's go!
Guy passed by in person and added on those two zeros!
He was spittin' mad when he saw what they was offerin'. He said,
"A measly thousand bucks for me? I'm worth more than that."
Then he added the zeros on the thousand!
No-one's got the guts to face that killer!
At least, it's been that way till now.
Where is he? Huh?
Where is he?
I've no idea where he'd be today.
- Hold still! - But, Guy...!
- You'll get me with your hands! - Then do as I tell ya!
Wait, I'll get it for you.
Oh, look! What's that?
Pardon me, ma'am.
I'll kill ya for this!
There ya are. $1,000.
What do you know about Cavanagh?
A week ago he was at White Rocks.
Thanks.
If it's of any interest to ya,
somebody else came about him.
Who?
I never seen him before.
His name is er... Monco.
Light?
You know Baby Cavanagh?
Tell me, you know where I can find him?
There... At that table.
He's got his back to ya.
Thanks.
Two cards.
Didn't hear what the bet was.
Your life.
Alive or dead, it's your choice.
Let Red go!
$2,000, it's a lot of money.
Takes me three years to earn it.
Tell me, isn't the sheriff supposed to be courageous, Ioyal,
and above all, honest?
Yeah, that he is.
I think you people need a new sheriff.
Hughie!
Hasta luego,
amigo.
- How are you, Niņo? - Better when I see you.
Go on. Go ahead.
Open it!
What's up? Who is it?
Rodriguez, seņor.
You! Come along!
I'm letting you live,
so you can tell everybody what takes place here!
For your lousy money.
No! No! No!
You took money to put me in prison.
You should have killed me.
It would be better for you.
And for them.
How old's the boy?
How old is the boy?
He's 18 months now.
Just the time that I was in jail.
You used the reward you got
to start raising a family.
That's why I feel your family's partly mine.
I'll take my part now.
Outside!
They're innocent. Let 'em go! I was the one!
No!
I know. I'm sure you hate me just enough.
This time you have a chance to shoot me, but not in the back.
Let go.
When you hear the music finish, begin.
Or do you think you can?
Let's start.
Now!
- Check those figures again. - Yes, sir.
Good day, sir. Good afternoon.
Mortimer.
- Douglas Mortimer. - Mortimer. Virginia, isn't it?
- Carolina. - That's right. Carolina.
- Can I help you? - I'm looking for a first-class bank.
Oh, but, exactly!
Yeah.
The largest and most secure bank in the territory.
Well, our bank has all the safeguards you're looking for.
I don't doubt that, but I have a large sum to deposit.
Now, erm, suppose I'm a bandit?
A... A bandit?!
A dangerous bandit with a gang of killers.
What would be the most impossible bank for me to rob?
I would suggest the Bank of El Paso.
Not even Indio would dare to attack that one.
It's not a bank, it's a fortress.
Huh!
What time's the next train for El Paso?
11.30.
I'll telegraph my colleague that you're going to arrive.
Thanks.
Hey, mister! Captain! General! Welcome!
Do you need a stable or a room? My name is Fernando.
Here is the stable. That is your hotel.
Why this hotel and not some other?
You wouldn't like the other as much.
You would spend the night shooting cockroaches.
The rooms are cheaper here. And there's a landlady, seņor.
- Married? - Yes, but she doesn't care.
That's the bank. If I get some money, I'll put it in.
You're gonna have to earn it first.
I have 50 cents for you, if you'll let me know
when anybody you've never seen before comes to town.
At the hotel, seņor. A stranger just came outta there!
Where's he stayin'?
At the hotel.
Let me know if you see any more strangers.
Sure, seņor.
- Help you, sir? - I want the room right above.
I'm sorry it's occupied. Too bad.
The hotel's filled to capacity.
The room you want is our best. It's always occupied.
- By who? - Check the register. Mary!
It's seņor Martinez.
It's free now.
That room is taken!
I'll see to it.
He's nothing but a wild, vicious animal!
He's tall, isn't he?
You're just dirty!
Proprietor! Quick! My bill!
I want my bill!
Before he comes down! My bill!
- There's no need to check out. - My bill!
I'll give you another room, the best in the hotel!
The bridal suite.
No, no, Mary, the bill.
I have an appointment elsewhere.
Seņor Martinez?
Uh? Uh? Yes, seņor, what do you want?
I don't wear 'em.
I'm honoured you thought of me. Thank you!
Watch!
Hello, my friends.
Hello, Indio.
I didn't waste a minute coming here.
Indio calls and Groggy comes running.
And Sancho?
Sancho will come back in four years. He's in prison.
For four years, no amor, no dinero, no sun.
Bad for him. Not so bad for us.
A man who gets caught doesn't deserve respect, huh?
What's it all about, huh?
Now just listen.
A bank at El Paso.
Let's see, we'll say this is the inside of the bank.
Niņo is the safe.
Which weighs three tons and can't be opened with dynamite.
There's the part with two cashiers.
This is the manager's desk.
Right in the back is a cabinet for offering drinks to rich depositors.
There's the main door, and opposite, a double wall.
What happens, Groggy?
Let's say you've killed the two cashiers and the manager.
For the next few minutes, you're the boss of the bank.
Now what?
The time's been wasted, Indio.
Mmm... Right. A waste of time.
Especially to blast open the safe.
We'd have to use so much dynamite, the whole bank would disappear.
And you'd all go up with it!
And besides, the presence of a safe doesn't signify that there is money inside.
To help you understand what I mean,
I would like to relate a nice little parable.
Once upon a time there was a carpenter.
A carpenter doesn't make money, eh?
No! You're wrong!
This one did well, because he was a builder of safes.
There was a banker, once,
who wanted his iron safe disguised
to look like a wood cabinet.
To get it made,
the banker goes to our carpenter for the job.
And one day, as destiny has it, the carpenter's in El Paso.
He walks into the bank, and what does he find?
The cabinet!
Since he'd worked on the cabinet, he spotted it right away.
From that day on he couldn't work any more.
Really, because... there was something he had to do.
There was this crazy idea
and it stayed, and it stayed.
To put his hands on the money inside.
To get in there and grab the money.
Sure,
you think that carpenter was lucky.
That he was lucky to go in just that bank.
It wasn't true.
His good fortune stopped that day.
Because later,
as a prisoner,
he ran into me.
The carpenter told me the story and I tell you.
The money isn't in the safe, it's in this!
Almost a million dollars in it!
Your colleague told me that this bank has the largest deposits in the state.
That's correct, Mr Mortimer.
Here at the bank at El Paso, we have half a million dollars on hand.
I see.
You sure this bank is secure enough to hold that much?
With your money here, you can sleep without any worries.
Besides, when the bank is closed, an armed guard remains here,
and a patrol is on guard outside.
Even the Bank of San Francisco isn't that well protected.
Exactly! The truth is, Mr Mortimer,
to try robbing us would be so futile,
only a complete fool would attempt it.
Yeah.
Or a complete madman.
Get outta the way!
More news, amigo.
Another stranger in town?
Yes. And I know something else.
There was another stranger I didn't tell you about.
Listen, you sawed-off little runt,
I want to know how many there are!
There were two. Now there's two more.
Where?
In the saloon.
Whisky.
Why choose my place to commit suicide?
I know that man. It's a miracle you're alive.
It's strange that a man with a pistol should let himself be insulted.
Well, if the hunchback didn't shoot you, he had a very, very important reason.
I was thinking that myself.
One... two,
three... four,
five,
seis... siete... ocho... nueve... diez,
11... 12... 13,
14... 15... 16,
17... 18... 19,
20... 21... 22,
23... 24,
25... 26,
27... 28... 29... 30,
31... 32,
and 33.
Huh!
No! No, no!
All right now.
I don't know 'im! I don't know 'im!
You know everybody.
Not any more! I'm dead! Understand?
I knew everybody a long time ago, when all this was prairie.
These days everybody's in a hurry with your damned trains!
Toot! Toot! Toot! Tweeeeeee!!
Disgusting!
Someone from the railroad visited. He says, "Prophet,
the railway'll go past your house."
"Aaah, is that so?" I says. "Hmm. That's right," he says.
"All the trains will go past here."
"Either sell us your land or we'll buy Baker's,
put tracks there, and send you crazy. Will you sell to us, Prophet?"
"Oh, is that so?", says I. Hmm! Hmm!
He was anxious for me to sell out.
You know what I told him he could do with his railroad?
You know what my decision about selling was?
You said no.
No to him and his damn train! I wouldn't! No!
Listen to me, old man. You're supposed to be a prophet.
I didn't come to hear about trains. I want to find out about this man.
You don't know anything.
No need to be insulting!
You can clear out before I lose my temper!
Understand?
Hey! Where ya going, hm?
I'll leave before you lose your temper.
Why are you so dang stupid? Hurry up, gimme that pistol!
Right there behind you! Hurry!
Yes! That's the one. Now hand it over!
That's it!
The man you asked about, how does he carry his gun?
- Does he wear it across his belly? - Yeah.
Why didn't you tell me that? Of course I know that man!
He's Colonel Douglas Mortimer.
Mortimer! A brave man, a soldier.
He was known as the best shot in the Carolinas.
Now he's reduced to being a bounty killer, same as you.
Because of trains! The damn trains, damn 'em! Poo!!
Take it to the station. The gentleman's leaving.
Hold it!
Take it back!
Take it to the station.
Go inside.
The station!
Just like the games we know.
- He's picking it up. - A trick, maybe.
How can somebody in my business go around with a contraption like this?
That contraption
almost sent you to your grave.
You forget, Colonel, I was shooting at your hat.
Well, I was only shooting at yours.
But I recall firing first.
Boy, I've reached almost 50 years of age with my system.
Not many men last long in these parts. How long do you expect to last?
Mmm... Much longer than that.
When I get my hands on Indio and that $10,000,
I'm gonna buy myself a little place,
possibly retire.
Well, I don't believe we oughta start another fight,
but you forget one small detail.
What?
I want to get Indio, too.
Sure... After me.
Or before you.
Or at the same time.
Is that a proposition?
Mm-hmm. An equal partnership.
Why? Why should I?
I can think of three reasons. The first is, there's 14 of them.
Yeah, that's a lot. A lot for me.
Yeah. No small number even for two of us!
Second reason?
The second reason is you could make it fifteen to one.
I want to play in this game, too.
As you're aware, when two hunters go after the same prey,
they end up shooting each other. We don't want to do that.
Then the Colonel dies, hm?
All right, I'll be generous.
You take the reward for Indio,
and I'll take the reward for the rest of the band.
No!
All wrong.
Indio's worth $10,000, but the rest add up to more.
Blackie's worth four, Wild three, Niņo two.
- Niņo's one. - Hmm?
Well, Frisco's worth two.
Well, that's $10,000.
Yeah, but there's a few more who add up to more.
- How d'you know that? - I have my information, Colonel.
When all's said and done, I might take up your proposition.
Mmm. Let's drink to this partnership.
To the partnership.
With no tricks, of course.
No tricks.
Now then, you realise we're gonna have to get them in the middle?
Yep.
One from the outside, one from the inside.
There's no other way. One of us will have to join Indio's band.
- Why are you looking at me? - Because they don't know you!
If Wild sees me, his hump'll catch on fire!
Tell me, Colonel,
how do you propose I join up with Indio?
Bring him a bunch of roses?
You could do that,
but I suggest you take him Sancho Perez.
Who's Sancho Perez?
A friend of Indio's.
Right now he's cooling off in Alamogourdo jail.
How do you know all this?
I've got my information, too!
Naturally you'll have to arrange for his erm... release.
Naturally.
Tell me, Colonel,
were you ever young?
Yep.
And just as reckless as you.
Then one day somethin' happened.
Made life very precious to me.
What's that?
Or is... the question indiscreet?
No. The question isn't indiscreet.
But the answer could be.
They told me you were put away for four long years in prison.
No, Indio! For four weeks! No longer than four weeks!
Sancho...
Who is that with you?
He got me out. He's a friend of mine.
Yeah?
Why did he help you? Did you ask him that?
Yeah. Amigo, why did you help me out?
Well, there's such a big reward being offered on you gentlemen,
that I thought I might tag along on your next robbery.
I might turn you in to the law.
Amigo, that is the one answer that will prove you're all right.
And you arrived just in time, too. The job is already set.
It's tomorrow.
The place is... the bank in El Paso.
Not far from El Paso is a little town, Santa Cruz.
Tomorrow, Blackie, Chico, Paco, and
you, amigo, will rob the bank in Santa Cruz.
Shoot, kill. Get every gun after you, especially those from El Paso.
Any others around, we'll take care of them.
After the job, we'll all meet again at Las Palmeras.
Where are you going?
Well, if there's gonna be any shooting,
I gotta get my rest.
Hey, amigo, when you told that story yesterday, I fell for it.
Big joke, wasn't it, amigo?
Who said I was jokin'?
- I don't get that. If it's true... - Too bad you have to die.
What is it?
By now they should be at Santa Cruz.
Listen, Shorty.
Indio and his band have just robbed the bank here.
Why not send out the alarm to El Paso
and all the towns around here and warn 'em?
But I didn't hear any shots.
You might hear one! The alarm!
Easy now.
They've robbed the bank at Santa Cruz!
Groggy, the telegraph wires!
Good day, gentlemen.
Good day.
- Sir. - Afternoon.
The other side.
11... 12,
...14,
You're not running away, are ya?
No. I'm goin' after them and I'm goin' alone.
Our partnership is dissolved.
Let's talk it over.
All we've done is talk. I've had no results.
We only knew the Santa Cruz part of his plan.
You had their strategy worked out.
- I'm goin' to meet Indio. - I'll go along.
I'm goin' alone... me!
I'm not gonna let anyone interfere.
- You certain about that? - That's right.
Then I'm sorry.
That's not bad. Indio sent four men to Santa Cruz.
One man returns, a new man, without a scratch.
Indio's no idiot.
Show him that little nick and he might believe you.
Don't forget that, as of today,
the gang is worth $40,000 more.
The bank are offering a reward.
- Is the partnership operating again? - Just how, do you figure?
Try to convince Indio to go north. Then go along the Rio Bravo.
It's a good spot for an ambush.
With you on the outside, me on the inside, right?
Mmm-hm. North?
North.
Hughie!
Wait! We need time to open it.
This isn't the right place.
And the others? Dead?
Yeah.
We headed for El Paso. They hit us from all sides.
And you just saved your own skin, you yellow ba...
You did your part of it. Let's go!
Which way are we headed?
- North. - North? Along Rio Bravo Canyon?
Why not?
It seems a good place for an ambush to me.
You know a better way to go?
Yeah. South.
Hmm... Ride to the border?
They won't expect you to cross the border now that the alarm's been sent.
Hmm.
No. I think we'll head east.
There's a place I know about, Agua Caliente.
Here we are. That's Agua Caliente.
Yes. I have many friends here.
It looks just like a morgue.
But look out, it could be one so easily.
- They don't like strangers, huh? - No, they don't like anybody.
Wild, you never saw our friend here shoot, right?
No.
Did any of you?
Hmmm! We don't know how you'd be in emergencies.
I was thinking, this is the right place.
I got a way you can show the men.
- How's that? - Go into town alone, amigo.
Bravo.
You mind tellin' me how you got here?
I just reasoned it out.
I figured you'd tell Indio the opposite of what we agreed.
And he's suspicious enough to do something else.
Since El Paso was out of the question, here I am.
Rum, a double.
Tequila for all of us.
Well, well!
If it isn't the smoker.
Well!
Remember me, amigo?
- Mm-mm. - Of course you do! El Paso.
It's a small world.
Yes. And very, very bad.
Now, come on. Light another match.
I generally smoke just after I eat.
Why not come back in ten minutes?
In ten minutes you'll be smoking in hell! Get up!
Stay calm.
On your feet!
Cucillo, count to three.
One,
two,
three!
Stop it!
Who are you?
I'm the one who can open the safe for you.
What safe, seņor?
The one from El Paso.
You got there before me. However...
However?
Open that safe and you'll destroy half the bank notes.
I can open it without blowing it up.
What'll it cost?
5,000.
Two is all I'll pay you.
Five!
Hands off! It's easy to steal. The trouble is in keeping the loot.
Take it out!
Everyone in New Mexico's after us.
If they catch one of us, we'll all end up the same way.
We'll wait here a month if I think it's necessary.
Then everybody will get his share.
You'll wait a month, too.
Naturally.
I'll be in the tavern.
The air round here stinks anyway, just like the food.
But the month will go fast.
All right.
Right here.
Let's go.
Ssh!
I was worried about you.
All alone, with so many problems to solve.
It's all right here.
Go ahead.
You shouldn't have shot the apples off that tree.
Put it on!
What's he doing now, the sheriff of El Paso?
Lookin' for the stolen cash.
Right.
And suppose he finds the bodies of these men outside El Paso,
with lots of money on them?
- What will the sheriff think? - Well...
That's right.
Slim?
What is it, Niņo?
A change of plans.
Indio wants you to...
It's not loaded.
You should get out fast now.
Here's your guns without bullets.
And don't let Indio find you.
I know you don't like questions, Indio, but why are you doing this?
Niņo, how long have you known that Monco's a bounty killer?
I found out tonight, why?
I knew he was one from the first moment he arrived.
The other one is also a bounty killer.
So, I have an idea.
They'll be useful to us.
We'll try it.
Those men are better than mine with a gun.
So, we'll let all of them get mixed up in a gun battle.
But that won't really matter
to me
or you.
Because we'll be far away, right?
And we'll have all the money.
Go on.
Go on and wake Cucillo.
Who did it?
Why don't you look at the knife?
It's mine.
Then it shouldn't be there.
But I didn't kill him, Indio. I didn't do it.
Cucillo, it's difficult to prove that.
Indio... I am innocent.
One of the horses is outside.
Let's see if you can get to it.
Indio?
Cucillo...
He just killed Slim.
And he... He helped those bounty killers get away.
I want them back!
Right now!
What are you doing here?!
Go on, get them back!!
Groggy?
Those two bounty killers are on our backs.
They must both be killed right away.
We can't let them go free.
It is done now.
Prepare to get out of here.
Niņo?
Indio!
Hold it!
Not a bad idea, Indio, but I'm one thing you forgot about.
Open it up now!
All right. Come on now, open it!
Leave Indio to me.
All right.
Where in hell is it?
I'll kill them, but I'll rip out their guts first!
I have a plan, Groggy.
What?
Let's just wait, Groggy. They'll be back here.
This way there'll be two of us.
Can they come back here? Your men could've killed them.
Who? They?
Are you sure that they haven't?
I thought something different.
You made the boys ride on out to make sure they're both killed fast.
I'm not as dumb as the rest, Indio.
There was no help for it.
Go on!
That watch,
it's been a long time that I've wanted to ask.
I can see that it means a lot to you, Indio.
Why?
Indio!
Listen to me!
This is Colonel Mortimer!
Douglas Mortimer!
Does the name mean anything to you?
When the chimes end, pick up your gun!
Try and shoot me, Colonel.
Just try!
Very careless of you, old man.
Try this.
Now we start.
Bravo.
There seems to be a family resemblance.
Here.
Naturally... between brother and sister.
My gun?
My boy, you've become rich.
- You mean, we've become rich, old man. - No. It's all for you.
- I think you deserve it. - What about our partnership?
Maybe next time.
Ten thousand,
12 thousand,
15,
16,
17,
22... 22?
27.
Any trouble, boy?
No, old man.
Thought I was havin' trouble with my adding.
It's all right now.
Ha!
THE END