Once Upon a Time in the West - BluRay (2011) Italy
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Director:Sergio Leone
Studio:Paramount
Producer:Bino Cicogna, Fulvio Morsella
Writer:Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati
Rated:PG-13
Date Added:2013-06-02
Last Seen:2019-02-08
UPC:097360683042
Price:$24.99
Awards:5 wins & 2 nominations
Genre:Western
Release:2011-05-31
IMDb:0064116
Location:BR0012
Duration:175
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:AC-3
Languages:English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Features:Insert Disc Two. From the main menu, highlight "Documentaries" and press left. The film's title should now be highlighted on the screen. Press enter to see a modern-day trailer for the film.
Sergio Leone  ...  (Director)
Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati  ...  (Writer)
 
Henry Fonda  ...  Frank
Jason Robards  ...  Cheyenne
Charles Bronson  ...  Harmonica
Claudia Cardinale  ...  Jill McBain
Gabriele Ferzetti  ...  Morton - Railroad Baron
Paolo Stoppa  ...  Sam
Woody Strode  ...  Stony - Member of Frank's Gang
Jack Elam  ...  Snaky - Member of Frank's Gang
Keenan Wynn  ...  Sheriff - Auctioneer
Frank Wolff  ...  Brett McBain
Lionel Stander  ...  Barman
Livio Andronico  ...  Bit Part
Salvatore Basile  ...  Bit Part
Aldo Berti  ...  Member of Frank's gang
Frank Braña  ...  Member of Frank's gang
Marilù Carteny  ...  Maureen McBain
Luigi Ciavarro  ...  Older sheriff's deputy
Spartaco Conversi  ...  Member of Frank's gang
Bruno Corazzari  ...  
Paolo Figlia  ...  
John Frederick  ...  Jim (member Frank's gang)
Michael Harvey  ...  Frank's lieutenant
Stefano Imparato  ...  
Frank Leslie  ...  
Luigi Magnani  ...  
Claudio Mancini  ...  Harmonica's Brother
Dino Mele  ...  Harmonica, as a boy
Antonio Molino Rojo  ...  Member of Frank's gang
Enrico Morsella  ...  
Umberto Morsella  ...  
Al Mulock  ...  Knuckles
Tullio Palmieri  ...  Flagstone carpenter
Renato Pinciroli  ...  First bidder at auction
Sandra Salvatori  ...  
Aldo Sambrell  ...  Cheyenne's lieutenant
Conrado San Martín  ...  Bit Part
Enzo Santaniello  ...  Timmy McBain
Simonetta Santaniello  ...  
Claudio Scarchilli  ...  
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia  ...  
Robert Spafford  ...  Construction yard owner
Benito Stefanelli  ...  Frank's lieutenant
Luana Strode  ...  Indian Woman
Fabio Testi  ...  Member of Frank's gang
Dino Zamboni  ...  
Marco Zuanelli  ...  Wobbles
Bino Cicogna  ...  Executive Producer
Tonino Delli Colli  ...  Director of Photography
Nino Baragli  ...  Film Editor
Ennio Morricone  ...  Composer
Carlo Simi  ...  Costume Designer
Alberto De Rossi  ...  Make-Up Artist
Giannetto De Rossi  ...  Make-Up Artist
Antonella Pompei  ...  Costume Designer
Eros Bacciucchi  ...  Visual Effects
Summary: Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West is the Everest of Italian westerns, featuring the greatest movie score Ennio Morricone ever composed and the most glorious CinemaScope camerawork to ever grace a western. Forty years on it’s recognised as one of the definitive big screen movies. Its hallucinatory splendour towers again in this stunning restoration. We couldn’t be more pleased with ourselves for securing these screenings for the giant screen. — BG
“Let’s celebrate… and appreciate the opportunity to see a gorgeous new restoration of a ‘classic’ that’s still one of the most enjoyable movies ever made: Bronson, Cardinale, Fonda, and Robards; Morricone’s unforgettable score; images of Monument Valley that rival John Ford’s. Right from the opening sequence—a quintet for three gunslingers, a fly, and a creaking windmill—t’s clear we’re being told a story whose familiar elements will appear in a new way…
This unusual film was born in an unusual way. After the financial success of his first three spaghetti westerns, Leone decided to try something more personal, so he invited two young filmmakers—Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci—to …‘dream together’. Agreeing that the western is the cinematographic genre par excellence, they discussed the American movies they loved, Hollywood dreams, and historical reality. The extraordinary film that resulted is a unique blending of popular fiction, the primal ‘once upon a time’ impulses common to all storytelling, and the Marxist ideas so in vogue in the late 60s. And ‘something to do with death’.” — Peter Scarlet, Tribeca Film Festival

Sergio leone's Western masterpiece finds Charles Bronson stepping into the No Name role as the vengeance-seeking Harmonica and Henry Fonda trashing his Wyatt Earp image as the dead-faced, blue-eyed killer, Frank. The opening Woody Strode, AI Mulock, and Jack Elam waiting for a train and bothered by a fly and dripping water—is masterful bravura, homing in on tiny details for a fascinating but eventless length of time before Bronson arrives for the shootout that gets the film going.
Once Upon a Time in the West is the first Leone film to place violence in a truly political context, indicting the corrupt (and crippled) railroad tycoon who "leaves two shiny, slimy tracks like a snail" as he bulldozes across the landscape, employing outlaw flunkeys to dispose of inconvenient settlers who won't unsettle easily. Rapacious civilization taints the wide open spaces as Harmonica quests to track down the sadist who hanged his brother, widow/whore/earth mother Claudia Cardinale tries to fulfill her murdered husband's dream of a real community out West, and bandido Jason Robards just wants to be left in a natural state of childish abandon. With striking widescreen compositions and epic running time, this is truly a Western that wins points for both length and width. —Kim Newman (1001)