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Movie Details
The so-called spaghetti Western achieved its apotheosis inSergio 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 Stars:Gabriele Ferzetti, Jason Robards, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson |
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| Director: | NA | Release Date : | 2010-04-18 |
| Rating: | PG-13 | Runtime: | 165 |
| Aspect Ratio: | NA | Details: | Once Upon A Time In The West |
| Picture Format: | NA | Language Format: | English Subtitled English spoken language French Dubbed |