Once Upon a Time in the West
by Sergio Leone
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Actor: Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Gabriele Ferzetti, Henry Fonda, Jason RobardsDirector: Sergio Leone
Brand: Paramount
Writer: Sergio Leone
Producer: Bino Cicogna
Producer: Fulvio Morsella
Writer: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer: Dario Argento
Writer: Mickey Knox
Writer: Sergio Donati
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 175 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-18
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Once Upon a Time in the West
Movie Review: ...an air of authenticity !
Summary: 4 Stars
Just a couple of notes: I did not see this film in 1968 (though I could have). I saw it recently. A couple of things made me smile: the scenes in Monument Valley which made it the only Leone Western that was filmed (if only in part) in the West. AND, unlike John Ford who almost owned Monument Valley in films, Leone actually made the locale of his film Arizona. Monument Valley is partially in Utah and partially in Arizona. John Ford always wanted us to believe it was in Texas (over and over again). Having lived in Texas for 9 years, I have found the state to be topographically challenged. There is nothing as awesome as Monument Valley or 5 other National Parks in Southern Utah.
And.... something European directors of Westerns never seemed to get right: there's no sagebrush in their European settings !
As to the movie -- very interesting. The cinematography and pace keep it out of the normal Action & Adventure category. There's practically no dialogue for the first 10 minutes. But the camera shots are infinitely interesting. I liked the whole thing much better than I thought I would and wish I had seen it in the movie palaces of the '60's -- on a really big screen.
Summary of Once Upon a Time in the West
An outlaw working for a railroad magnate fights a stranger for a new orleans widows land. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/13/2007 Starring: Henry Fonda Frank Wolff Run time: 165 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Sergio LeoneThe 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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