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 Overview:
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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Quotes from
Jill: What's he waiting for out there? What's he doing?
Cheyenne: He's whittlin' on a piece of wood. I've got a feeling when he stops whittlin'... Somethin's gonna happen.
[last lines]
Cheyenne: Hey, Harmonica - when they do you in, pray it's somebody who knows *where* to shoot... Go away... go away... go away, I don't want you to see me die.
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Facts about
Although Lionel Stander's establishment is located in Monument Valley, the interiors were actually shot at Cinecitta. Cheyenne's men enter with a cloud of red dust. The red dust was actually dust imported from the Monument Valley location.
Henry Fonda originally turned down a role in the picture. Director Sergio Leone flew to the United States and met with Fonda, who asked why he was wanted for the movie. Sergio replied, "Picture this: the camera shows a gunman from the waist down pulling his gun and shooting a running child. The camera pans up to the gunman's face and... it's Henry Fonda." (Until then, and with one exception, Fonda had only been cast in "good guy" roles. Leone wanted the audience to be shocked.)
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