Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
A woman returns to her ranch out west to find her husband has been killed by a band of outlaws who want the railroad-valuable land. A brooding, young cowboy steps in to stop them.
DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
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September 14, 2009"There were three men in her life. One to take her... one to love her... and one to kill her."
Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
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June 30, 2009A newlywed arrives to find her adoptive family murdered and makes an alliance with a bandit and a mysterious drifter to unite against their killer. Sergio Leone's "dance of death" is probably his most artistic film; what doesn't happen on screen is just as important as what does....( read more)
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February 15, 2009I actually prefer this over The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Bronson is at his coolest and whoever thought Fonda could come off as cruel? Jason Robards deliberately tries to steal the movie repeatedly and the camera makes excellent use of spaces both grand and intimate. Leone real...( read more)
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December 4, 2008The birth of a nation. as seen through the eyes of Sergio Leone, in his greatest opera of the west.
The genius of Leone and Morricone, in their respective visual and sonorous treatment, is mesmerizing.
A larger than life, solemn, almost sacred elegy that presents a remarkable gr...( read more) -
November 28, 2008''If you want to, you can lay me over the table and amuse yourself. And even call in your men. Well. No woman ever died from that. When you're finished, all I'll need will be a tub of boiling water, and I'll be exactly what I was before - with just another filthy memory.
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November 11, 2009Harmonica: The reward for this man is 5000 dollars, is that right?
Cheyenne: Judas was content for 4970 dollars less.
Harmonica: There were no dollars in them days.
Cheyenne: But sons of bitches... yeah....( read more)
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November 8, 2009A mild dissapointment. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was slow, which is fine but this film was too slow,exhaustingly slow, cut 30 minutes off, it'll still be slow. Even if it was shorter, it wouldn't even be close to being as great as the good the bad the ugly. I read the review...( read more)
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November 7, 2009Quite possibly the greatest Western ever filmed and one of the top 50 movies of all time. Also one of the most obscure westerns out there, but also one of the most influential. Superb cinematography, direction, camera work, acting and story. The plot twist at the end is brillian...( read more)
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October 22, 2009Leone's ultimate western epic is a landmark operistic elegy for the dying genre, with incredibly fantastic dialogues, lots of evocative silence, outstanding performances and a classic Morricone score.
Critic Reviews
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
December 2, 2003
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Sergio Leone made a fistful of great films, but none better than 1968's ode to the fading American frontier, Once Upon a Time in the West. full review
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May 29, 2007Head and shoulders above the rest. Second to none. The greatest western ever made. One of the greatest movies of all time!!!
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March 9, 2007Ultimate Western had to be made by an Italian.
Ultimate Spaghetti Western had to be shot in America.
Henry Fonda is fantastic in this.
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