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| “ | When the chimes end, pick up your gun. Try and shoot me, Colonel. Just try. | „ |
| ~ El Indio to Douglas Mortimer. |
El Indio (Spanish for "The Indian") is the main antagonist in the 1965 spaghetti western film For a Few Dollars More, the sequel to A Fistful of Dollars.
He was the psychopathic leader of a gang of wanted outlaws who had Douglas Mortimer and Manco join forces to both go after his bounty, and is the archenemy of Colonel Douglas Mortimer.
He was portrayed by the late Gian Maria Volonté, who previously played Ramon Rojo in the original film. As with Rojo, Indio's voice is dubbed by the late Bernard Grant in the English-language version.
Biography[]
El Indio was an outlaw considered by the authorities in the film to be one of the worst criminals of the times; according to a bank official "Not even Indio would dare to rob that one". Once Indio escapes prison, he hunts down Tomaso, who betrayed him and orders his family to be executed in shootouts (including his baby son), but still, the man gave him the opportunity to avenge himself. However, he fails in the attempt and is killed by Indio.
Douglas Mortimer and Manco both go after his bounty, and end up working together. Manco joins El Indio's gang after freeing Sancho Perez from prison. They plan to go on a bank robbery. After the robbery is successful the gang heads east to a small town, where Manco meets up with Douglas. Douglas joins El Indio's gang by opening the safe without explosives. However, El Indio catches them trying to steal the money and has them beaten and tied up. El Indio suspects that they are bounty killers and devises a plan to get them, and most of his gang, killed while he and Niño escape with the money. Unfortunately, Niño is killed by Groggy, who takes El Indio prisoner while he searches for the money, all while the gang is being killed by Douglas and Manco.
Douglas and Manco make it to where El Indio and Groggy are hiding, a shootout breaks out and Groggy is shot. However, El Indio manages to shoot Douglas' gun out of his hand, and challenges him to an unfair duel. Manco intervenes and makes the duel fair, which ends when Douglas (with the help of Manco's borrowed handgun) is proven faster on the draw and shoots and kills El Indio, gaining revenge for his sister and brother-in-laws' murders.
In a flashback sequence, it is revealed that he shot a young man and raped his wife. The girl shot herself in the process. The girl just so happened to be the Colonel's sister. El Indio carries around with him a musical watch taken from the deceased couple that plays a tune when it is wound. He knows when the chimes end and uses this to his advantage in duals (so did Mortimer as he outgunned him, having worn an identical watch). El Indio smokes what seems to be cannabis or opium to ease the intensity of the memory.
Personality[]
One of; if not the, most evil man in the land, El Indio was a traitorous, bloodthirsty, ruthless, cruel, unforgiving, unsympathetic and sadistic criminal. He is always willing to kill others and had killed or raped numerous individuals. He is even willing to kill children, such as his old rival's infant son, as well as his wife who he had killed out of vengeance and uncaring spite. El Indio is also sadistic, enjoying when his gang beat up Manco and Mortimer. He is also egotistical, leaving one man alive to tell the authorities that he had robbed them. He is highly manipulative and self-centered, killing one of his own men and framing them for it; his plan is to have his gang and the bounty hunters kill each other, leaving all the loot for himself. When Nino, the one gang member he'd planned to keep around is killed in front of him, El Indio displays absolutely no reaction, and he's ultimately revealed to have killed Mortimer's brother-in-law and raped his sister, driving her to suicide. Ultimately, El Indio is an insane drug-addict who parasites off those around him. It is, however, heavily implied Indio's conscience sometimes nags at him and that he has remorse for the things he has done, owing to his great drug use.
Equipment[]
- Colt Buntline: Indio's primary weapon is the "Buntline Special" version of the Colt M1873. Indio's Buntline has an 8" barrel, while the rest of his men like Groggy used the Colt M1873.
- Longarms: Indio also carried severals rifles like the Henry M1860 rifle which he is seen with it while breaking the safe. He only used it to check for Manco's neck wound. In his final duel, Manco manage to get his hands on it to let Mortimer fairly duel El Indio. It is mistaken as a Volcanic Repeater, despite it having a smaller buttstock and a straight buttplate rather than the half-moon shape like other Volcanic rifles. It is also confused for a Winchester M1866 "Yellow Boy" rifle due to having a bronze/brass receiver.
Quotes[]
| “ | ¡Adiós amigo! | „ |
| “ | I know. I'm sure you hate me just enough. | „ |
| ~ El Indio to Tomaso after killing his son and wife. |
| “ | I'm letting you live, hero. That way you can tell everyone what takes place here. | „ |
| ~ El Indio to a prison guard he hasn't killed. |
| “ | It's easy enough to steal. The trouble is in keeping the loot. | „ |
| ~ Indio after Mortimer opens the safe. |
Notable Victims[]
- Mortimer’s sister - Provoked into shooting herself as he was raping her.
- Tomaso - Killed in a duel as revenge for betraying him.
- Slim - Ordered; stabbed by Niño.
- Cuchillo - Shot to death and falsely blamed for killing Slim and freeing Manco and Mortimer.
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Trivia[]
- Gian Maria Volonté, El Indio's actor, didn't speak English. He repeated his lines phonetically with the help of a translator when they recorded the dub.
- El Indio had listened to his pocket watch countless times, so he knows the very millisecond the tune ends, giving him an advantage in standoffs where he uses it. As stated above, so did Mortimer as he was the faster draw during the final showdown.
- El Indio is the only one of the three Dollars Trilogy villains who is not killed by The Man With No Name himself (though he certainly contributed), instead being killed by Colonel Douglas Mortimer.
External Links[]
- El Indio on the Pure Evil Wiki.
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