Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 ‘C'era una volta il West’ Directed by Sergio Leone
A widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and her land.
Claudia Cardinale Henry Fonda Jason Robards Charles Bronson Gabriele Ferzetti Paolo Stoppa Woody Strode Jack Elam Keenan Wynn Frank Wolff Lionel Stander Enzo Santaniello Simonetta Santaniello Marco Zuanelli Al Mulock John Frederick Michael Harvey Benito Stefanelli Antonio Molino Rojo Fabio Testi Frank Braña Paolo Figlia Saturno Cerra Spartaco Conversi Aldo Berti Aldo Sambrell Lorenzo Robledo Bruno Corazzari Antonio Palombi Show All…
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A true masterpiece in every sense of the word! The opening scene takes the mundane (sweaty gunslingers with weathered faces, dripping water, pesky fly and a rusty old windmill) and literally turns it into a work of art!
A western that's so real you can almost see the beard stubble grow by the minute and the sweat trickling from your screen!
Gorgeous cinematography with a soundtrack ranging from glorious, to thrilling, to haunting! An all star cast as magnificent as the film itself! Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, and Claudia Cardinale!
As lusty as it is gutsy! A place and time when guns and grimaces did all of the talking!
Naughty Approved!
Although Sergio Leone never really made anything better or more entertaining than The Good, the Bad & the Ugly in my opinion, he did come incredibly close to repeating that cinematic feat with this spaghetti western epic. A stunning work of blazing originality & featuring precision craftsmanship in nearly all departments of filmmaking, Once Upon a Time in the West is western in its purest form that fuses breathtaking art into the legacy of Wild West unlike any other example before or after it.
The story revolves around a small chunk of land which is the region's only water source. The family that owns the land is slaughtered by Frank & his gang, after which the ownership transfers to Jill, the widow of…
Felt it was time for a revisit. One of my faves.
I tweeted about and someone was nice enough to reply with this link:
ascmag.com/articles/shooting-once-upon-a-time-in-the-west
Good read.
Watched on Blu-ray
Beautifully composed, shot, and told, Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" is well deserving of its reputation as one of the best Westerns ever made. An epic story of lawlessness, vengeance, and the women and men conquering the untamed American west, Leone's film is meditative and gritty, sweeping and violent. It compels with its carefully composed aesthetic, archetypal-yet-specifically drawn characters, and grand themes.
Steeped in dirt, sweat, and stubble, Leone's film is made up of narrative threads well-known to genre fans. Murder, westward expansion, and frontier justice dominate the plot. The story focuses on a widow whose husband owned precious water rights near the town of Flagstone. With parties trying to forcibly rid the widow of her…
“Keep you loving brother happy.”
(Henry Fonda as Frank)
Hi everybody, I rewatched this masterpiece and it was just ohh wow. I get the feeling it gets better, any time I watch it. In my opinion, it’s the greatest western and of course one of the best films of all time and not to forget it places on number 45 on our “111 favorite movies” list. Long time I had thought about writing a review to that movie, but I was afraid to write something satisfying about such an important film. I will try to analyze everything that’s mentionable. I think most…
"Do you know anything about a guy going around playing the harmonica? He's someone you'd remember. Instead of talking, he plays. And when he better play, he talks."
What a pleasure it was for me to finally get to watch this masterpiece which I kept on putting off because of its nearly three hour runtime. I was blown away by Sergio Leone’s direction in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and that was the only film of his that I’d seen up to this point, but now I honestly can’t say which of the two films I prefer. This is perhaps a better film because it is set on a grander and epic scale, but perhaps not as entertaining…
i love leone
ennio morricone is a genius. the main theme is my favorite piece of work by him.
leone’s westerns have such a strong, vivid texture. i LOVE the feeling of watching them.
jason robards!!!!!
the end title is so whacky lmao
no shits given
The amount craftsmanship and brilliance of this movie is bigger than all the testosterone combined in it. Which. Says a lot.
A slow-burn cinematic gold-mine of spectacular shots and soundscapes.
I'm going through Leone's filmography ever-so-slowly and this is without a doubt one of the quintessential westerns. It has the essence of the Western genre embedded throughout - morally gray characters, stunning landscapes, and just a richness in detail with regards to production.
The soundtrack is amazing, so haunting, so perfect for the film. I can see myself listening to it in leisure.
A good film for sure, but it'd be hard to recommend to everyone. A nice entry into the Western genre, and for the veterans of it, another classic to add to the watched list. If you're feeling up for a slow-paced, well-shot older movie then look no further.
It's a nice western but you really start to notice how confusing or unexplained things tend to be. What could've done the movie better was some more explanatory dialogue or flow between locations. Morricone is on point as always, and there is definitely some wit in the characters, but I can't say the movie amounts to any of the films in the Dollars Trilogy, especially the 2nd and 3rd ones.
*harmonica plays*
100,000,000/10
Leone and Morricone are the dream team but we knew that already, Fonda and Bronson 50 point triple doubles
“How can you trust a man that wears both a belt and suspenders? Man can't even trust his own pants.“
I wish they still made films like this...
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