He became a star in one scene: this western actor made a name for himself in 1 minute

Director Sergio Leone’s “And a Few Dollars More” not only gave Lee Van Cleef his starring career and established Clint Eastwood as the hero of the Italian Western. He took the opportunity to reveal a comedian: the German actor Klaus Kinski and his recognizable face among a thousand.

In this film, Colonel Mortimer and “One Penguin”, two bounty hunters, decide to join forces to hunt down an Indian and his bandits, whose heads are valued and who are preparing to rob an El Paso bank.

In a very surprising scene, Lee Van Cleef’s character, Colonel Mortimer, enters the cabin and attacks a member of the Indian gang “Hunchback”. He walks awkwardly over to the scratch of a match on his hump, which he uses to light his pipe.

Kinski’s character blows a match and Mortimer borrows his cigar to light the pipe. He then takes a long look at the chubby face played by Klaus Kinski to provoke him. The bandit is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and in order to get him to sit down, he pulls a colt on this guy who comes with him.

But if he doesn’t take action, it’s because he and his accomplices are there to identify future robberies and can’t create a scandal or their cover will be blown. Unfortunately, the hunchback had to give it up, and this frustration led to a series of uncontrollable tics on his face. With a bit of a crush, he decides to leave rather than give up. When Hunchback and Mortimer meet again, the meeting will go much worse!

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This shot features German actor Klaus Kinski, who was 39 years old when the film was released. He has already made more than forty feature films but failed to break through. The success of Leone’s film will open the doors of Italian cinema and Westerns in particular, as from 1965 to 1975 he will make 18 of them, some of which are among the classics of the genre: El Chuncho, And the wind brought violence or The Great Silence.

Kinski became known for his possessed, bombastic, angry and maddened roles. In 1972, he met director Werner Herzog on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God, a role in which the actor’s excess is perhaps at its peak. The two men then encounter Nosferatu, the Ghost of the Night, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde again (1987).

after deathThe actor’s daughter, Nastassia Kinski, has revealed that he always tried to abuse her when she was a child and that she managed to get away with it. Her half-sister Pola published a memoir where she accuses her father of raping her between the ages of 5 and 19. The dead actor will never go to court.