Douglas Mortimer

Colonel Douglas Mortimer (born 1810s) is the main protagonist of For a Few Dollars More. He's a former colonel turned bounty hunter, and the best shooter in Carolinas.
He was portrayed by the late , who also portrayed Angel Eyes in , Sabata in Sabata (1969), and Jonatan Corbett in The Big Gundown (1966).
==Biography==
Douglas Mortimer is a former colonel turned bounty hunter, originally from the . Becoming a bounty hunter, he tracks down a wanted criminal and kills him in the middle of town. Later, Manco and Douglas go after the same reward target, El Indio. After Manco finds out he's after El Indio, he challenges Douglas by first stepping on his boot and then punching him after he does the same. Douglas' hat is tipped in the process. Manco then repeatedly throws Douglas' hat away from him when he tries to catch it. Eventually, Manco misses and Douglas catches his hat, then throws Manco's hat off his head and shoots it repeatedly into the air. Manco and Douglas then team up to catch El Indio together.
Douglas devises a scheme that involves Manco joining the El Indio gang, which he does by freeing Sancho Perez, an old friend of Indio. Unfortunately, El Indio sends Manco with 3 of his men and while the rest of his gang manages to rob the bank. Manco runs after him, thinking he can finish off the gang, but is stopped by Douglas, who tries to convince Manco to collude with him. Manco refuses and tries to flee, but Douglas shoots him in the neck, wounded only by a graze, and says that if Manco returns alone, without the other three, El Indio will be suspicious, after Manco returns to the group, Douglas finds him in the town Agua Caliente where the El Indio gang fled. El Indio and his gang find Manco and Douglas in the town's tavern, where Juan Wild recognizes Douglas challenges him to a standoff, during the standoff Wild dies. Indio then hires Douglas to open the vault without using explosives and tells him, Manco and the rest of the gang that they cannot leave for a month. At night, Douglas and Manco are caught stealing the money and are beaten by Indio's gang.
However, El Indio knows they are bounty hunters and devises a plan for his gang and the hunters to kill each other while he and Niño escape with the money. Unfortunately, Niño is killed by Groggy, who makes Indio prisoner while he searches. the money while the gang is killed by Douglas and Manco. Douglas and Manco arrive where El Indio and Groggy are hiding, a shootout breaks out and Groggy is shot. However, El Indio manages to shoot Douglas' gun from his hand and challenges him to an unfair duel. Manco intervenes and makes the duel fair, which ends when Douglas is the fastest deadlock and shoots killing Indio, where it turns out that the woman in the photo was Douglas' sister who was raped by Indio which led to her suicide, so he takes Indio's watch and tells Manco that all the money is his for his good work, he then leaves town, walking on the horizon, never to be seen again.
==Personality==
Douglas is a man of quiet personality, but firm when necessary and is an excellent strategist and sometimes melancholy by the events of the past. He mentions in the past that he was once young and reckless like Manco but one event cause him to learn that life is very precious to everyone.
==Skills==
Mortimer is shown to be a skilled bounty hunter. He manage to track Manco and El Indio Agua Caliente. He was the brains in his partnership with Manco and create acid to open the El Paso safe. His most noticeably skill is his marksmanship which is deadly at long-distance. He is also able to shoot Manco at close range in a manner that leaves a convincing, yet not inconveniencing wound on his neck. As seen in his duel with Indio, he is also fast in close range which rivals Manco. The novelization, explores where despite typically wears his gun in a crossdraw fashion, Mortimer keep in practice both ways.
Mortimer carries a wide variety of weapons. These weapons are rolled up in a blanket on his horse, which he is seen unrolling it early in the movie to reveal a large number of rifles and pistols.
*Pistols: Mortimer's primary weapon is the version of the . He has two Buntline Specials, one seen in his saddlebags with an 18" barrel, and the other with a 10" barrel which he primarily uses. He often fits the 10" barrel with a shoulder stock and uses like a rifle. While similar to Manco's Colt M1873, Mortimer's has a longer barrel for long-range distance, meaning he can wait out of a pistol's normal range and line up shots, but the long barrel also prevents him from quick-drawing it, a disadvantage in some of the situations he finds himself in. Mortimer does have a hidden in his sleeve as a backup weapon. He used this gun to kill Juan Wild in their standoff. The Derringer seems to come out with a spring-loaded sleeve.
*Longarms: Mortimer also keeps several types of rifles in his saddlebag: , , , and . He uses the Winchester rifle to shoot out the outlaw's horse and the outlaw's shoulder at the beginning of the film. 
==Gallery==
Douglas mortimer.jpg
Colonnello che spara.jpg|shooting apples
Pipe-yellow-Colonel-Douglas-Mortimer-Lee-Van-Cleef-in-for-a-few-dollars-more.jpg|Smoking.
Colonel-Mortimer thumb.jpg|Drawing the revolver.
Mortimer sad look.jpg|Douglas sad seeing that he would not be able to stop El Indio.
Thoughtful.jpg|After killing El Indio
For a Few Dollars More.jpg|Douglas and Manco talking.
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE poster.jpg|movie poster.
==Trivia==
*Mortimer's arrival in is a , as Tucumcari was founded many years after the film takes place.
*Mortimer is the first protagonist of Lee Van Cleef, as before Douglas he always played antagonists or secondary roles. His second protagonist was Jonathan Corbett in .
==External Links==
*Douglas Mortimer at the Dollars Trilogy wiki.
*Douglas Mortimer on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
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