Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) | |
| Director(s) | Sergio Leone |
| Producer(s) | Bino Cicogna (executive), Fulvio Morsella |
| Top Genres | Epic, Western |
| Top Topics | Spaghetti Western, Wild West |
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) was a Western - Epic Film directed by Sergio Leone and produced by Bino Cicogna and Fulvio Morsella.
Once Upon a Time in the West was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2009.
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Updated
By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 1, 2015 From 4 Star FilmsI’m not well versed in Spaghetti Westerns, but I certainly do not need someone to tell me that Sergio Leone’s film is a sprawling epic. That’s an understatement if there every was one. The cast, the score, the visuals. Everything about it fits together so marvelously. All the movin... Read full article
Review: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 1, 2015 From 4 Star FilmsI’m not well versed in Spaghetti Westerns, but I certainly do not need someone to tell me that Sergio Leone’s film is a sprawling epic. That’s an understatement if there every was one. The cast, the score, the visuals. Everything about it fits together so marvelously. All the movin... Read full article
Review: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 1, 2015 From 4 Star FilmsI’m not well versed in Spaghetti Westerns, but I certainly do not need someone to tell me that Sergio Leone’s film is a sprawling epic. That’s an understatement if there ever was one. The cast, the score, the visuals. Everything about it fits together so marvelously. All the moving... Read full article
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 25, 2014 From 4 Star FilmsStarring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards with director Sergio Leone, this is another memorable Italian western. The film follows a recently widowed beauty (Cardinale), the villainous killer who is after her (Fonda), a anti-hero bandit (Robards), and of course the m... Read full article
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 25, 2014 From 4 Star FilmsStarring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards with director Sergio Leone, this is another memorable Italian western. The film follows a recently widowed beauty (Cardinale), the villainous killer who is after her (Fonda), a anti-hero bandit (Robards), and of course the m... Read full article
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Harmonica: Which deal Frank? We've got more than one to settle you and me.
Cheyenne: Make believe it's nothing.
Cheyenne: You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month - he must have been a happy man.
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Leone originally intended to reunite the three stars of Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach) in cameo roles as the three gunmen waiting for Harmonica at the start of the film, but when Eastwood was unavailable the idea was scrapped.
Sergio Leone made hundreds of references to films that influenced him. Some were quite obvious (like three men waiting for the train as in High Noon) and some were very subtle, like the choice of Woody Strode's sawed-off Winchester rifle, similar to the weapon Steve McQueen carried in the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive. McQueen referred to this unique weapon as a "Mare's Leg".
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