What? Tor over Uncle Fester from Addam's Family television show? You scare me sometimes beccabear67 ...  next you'll be telling us George the Animal Steele in WWE is a bald force to be reckoned with?

I don't know who that is, but then I don't know who 90% of celebrities are anymore... if anyone wants to talk Giant Haystacks fighting Shirley 'Big Daddy' Crabtree though...

There was a surprise on a fairly recent Antiques Roadshow where someone brought his collection of Big Daddy memorabilia including one of his outfits! I think at one time they didn't put things like that on the show, but after carriage clock number one thousand I expect someone weakened.

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I prefer the Cowboy With No Name trilogy... the Morricone scores alone would do it, and the outstanding direction clinches it!

It's funny to think that Eastwood was judged physically too frail for the role at the time, which is why his character wears an ample poncho. That never happened to Dirty Harry, I'm sure!

The so-called Man With No Name trilogy, hands down.

The first Dirty Harry movie is great, but every subsequent film in the series was victim to the law of diminishing returns, as far as I'm concerned. None of them are unwatchable, mind you, but the Sergio Leone spaghetti trilogy is just utterly fantastic. I think my absolute favourite of the three films is probably For A Few Dollars More.

Yeah, love it though I do, I've always found The Good, the Band and the Ugly to be a bit "bloated", as you say.

For A Few Dollars More takes everything that was already great about A Fisful of Dollars and refines it. The script is sharper, the comedy is funnier, and the action scenes are more innovative and exhilarating. Right from that great openning shot of a lone rider -- seen from the persepective of a bounty hunter -- alone on a vast desert plain, getting killed by a single shot, just before Ennio Morricone's fantastic theme music begins, it's clear that Sergio Leone really means business this time.

As you say, Lee Van Cleef's character Mortimer is a show-stealing protagonist, and the chemistry between him an Clint is a joy to watch. Mortimer's tragic tale of vengence against the bandit El Indio is also really gripping and the music that Mortimer's pocket-watch plays -- and how Leone uses it to ramp up tension -- is just fantastic. And the brilliantly orchestrated showdown between Mortimer and El Indio at the end, with Clint refereeing, is just a classic piece of cinema.

Actually, I think El Indio is hands down the most genuinely sinister and threatening villain in the trilogy. I mean, there's the brutal rape and execution of Mortimer's sister, of course, but let's not forget the scene in the gang's hideout where he murders a mother and her newborn baby!

For A Few Dollars More is that cinematic rarity: a sequel that is better than the original film in the franchise.

And of course, we also find out in For A Few Dollars More that the so-called "Man with No Name" is actually called Manco. Whether that's his real name or not is imaterial; this character definitely has a name.