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Once Upon a Time in the West
starring: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti
directed by: Sergio Leone

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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792101444
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording remastered, NTSC
ISBN: 0792101448
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: February 19, 1997
Running Time: 165 minutes
Sales Rank: 11869
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1969

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The so-called spaghetti Western achieved its apotheosis in Sergio Leone's magnificently mythic (and utterly outlandish) Once upon a Time in the West. After a series of international hits starring Clint Eastwood (from A Fistful of Dollars to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly), Leone outdid himself with this spectacular, larger-than-life, horse-operatic epic about how the West was won. (And make no mistake: this is the wide, wide West, folks--so the widescreen/letterboxed version is strongly recommended.) The unholy trinity of Italian cinema--Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento--concocted the story about a woman (Claudia Cardinale) hanging onto her land in hopes that the transcontinental railroad would reach her before a steely-eyed, black-hearted killer (Fonda) does. (The film's advertising slogan was: 'There were three men in her life. One to take her ... one to love her ... and one to kill her.') Meanwhile, Leone shoots his stars' faces as if they were expansive Western landscapes, and their towering bodies as if they were looming rock formations in John Ford's Monument Valley. --Jim Emerson

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Probably the best western ever
My favorite western and probably the best western ever!
Excelent quality widescreen DVD, looks better then the original I saw many years ago in the movie theater!

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- The very acme of the best!!
Sergio Leone is unique in his field, and particularly in the western genre. He was in his fourth year of spaghetti western, let's say in full swing, in this film. You know it is Sergio Leone by several elements that do not tell a lie. The music always has the same texture, the same taste, the same sonorities, with the eternal harmonica. Then the landscape, the sunshine, the light, the vegetation and of course practically no fauna, and in this one, not even a snake. Hardly a few horses, a couple of partridges, or whatever, and a pair of chickens. Nothing to brag about. Sergio Leone is concentrating anyway on the human animal and there the menagerie is by far diverse and grotesque enough. Then the economy of the dialogue is also typical because Sergio Leone never uses one word too many when he can do without any word at all. The silences are long and so meaningful that you must be blind not to hear the resounding sense ... Read More

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- My favorite spaghetti western
Yes, it's long. SO long in fact that it never made theaters in the US. It was the longest running film in theaters in France. If you can appreciate the cinematography, it's amazing. This is the kind of flick that you would like if you like Citizen Kane.

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- BORING
A previous reviewer said best western ever. NO WAY. It has the star power but EXTREMELY SLOW going and way too many cliches.

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