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Original title: C'era una volta il West
Release Date
Dec 21, 1968 (Italy)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 18, 2003
• R2: 6 Oct 2003
Budget $3,000,000
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for western violence and brief sensuality. (re-rated; rated M/PG in 1969)
Running Time
2 hours, 45 minutes
Country Italy, USA
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures, Rafran Cinematografica (as A Rafran-San Marco Production), San Marco Production (as A Rafran-San Marco Production)
Studio Paramount, Rafran Cinematografica, San Marco Finanziera
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Other Titles
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• C'era una volta il West (1968)
• There Was Once the West
• Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod (1969)
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western, Epic, Murder, Revenge, Outlaws, Psychos, Suspense, Love Triangle, Love
Tagline: There were three men in her life. One to take her... one to love her... and one to kill her.
Plot: Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda, playing against type), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion of the railroad. After Frank murders land owner Brett McBain (Frank Wolff), McBain's widow (Claudia Cardinale) hires two killers of her own to protect her and gain revenge: a mysterious, harmonica-playing desperado (Charles Bronson) and his rogue sidekick (Jason Robards). Using techniques previously unseen in the genre, Sergio Leone utilizes close-ups, color, and Ennio Morricone's trademark score to create a tense and somber meditation on death which is widely considered to be one of the best westerns in cinematic history. Soon-to-be legendary Italian directors Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA) and Bernardo Bertolucci (THE LAST EMPEROR) collaborated with Leone on the screenplay.
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Sergio Leone
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Henry Fonda
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Ennio Morricone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in America |
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