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Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968)
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Cast
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| Claudia Cardinale | ... | ||
| Henry Fonda | ... | ||
| Jason Robards | ... | ||
| Charles Bronson | ... | ||
| Gabriele Ferzetti | ... | ||
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Paolo Stoppa | ... | |
| Woody Strode | ... | ||
| Jack Elam | ... | ||
| Keenan Wynn | ... |
Sheriff - Auctioneer
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Frank Wolff | ... | |
| Lionel Stander | ... |
Barman
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
Story of a young woman, Mrs. McBain, who moves from New Orleans to frontier Utah, on the very edge of the American West. She arrives to find her new husband and family slaughtered, but by who? The prime suspect, coffee-lover Cheyenne, befriends her and offers to go after the real killer, assassin gang leader Frank, in her honor. He is accompanied by Harmonica on his quest to get even. Get-rich-quick subplots and intricate character histories intertwine with such artistic flair that this could in fact be the movie-to-end-all-movies. Written by DrGoodBeat
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There were three men in her life. One to take her... one to love her... and one to kill her.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for western violence and brief sensuality | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
21 December 1968 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
Once Upon a Time in the West See more »Box Office
Budget:
$5,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
| (international) | (1970)Sound Mix:
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Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Station agent: Hey - hey hey hey hey, if you want any tickets, you'll have to go around to, eh, to, eh, the front of the, eh... oooh, well, I s'pose it'll be all right.
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(1913) (uncredited)
Written by by Frederick Edward Weatherly
Hummed and Sung a cappella a bit by Simonetta Santaniello
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Trivia
When Henry Fonda was trying to decide whether to be in this film, he asked his friend Eli Wallach, who had just made _Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966) with Sergio Leone, if he should take the part of Frank. Wallach said that he had to do it and told Fonda, "You will have the time of your life." (Similarly, it was Fonda, saying he considered Leone one of the greatest directors he ever worked with, who persuaded 'James Coburn' to take the part of Mallory in the second "Once Upon a Time..." film, Duck, You Sucker.) See more »Goofs
Near the beginning, Brett McBain is shooting birds, and Timmy (Brett's son) collects the birds and shows them to his sister Maureen. The birds are chukkar partridge, which were introduced into the United States by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the 1920s and were not present before then. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Station agent: Hey - hey hey hey hey, if you want any tickets, you'll have to go around to, eh, to, eh, the front of the, eh... oooh, well, I s'pose it'll be all right.
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Crazy Credits
The film's title does not appear until the end of the final scene. See more »Soundtracks
"Danny Boy"(1913) (uncredited)
Written by by Frederick Edward Weatherly
Hummed and Sung a cappella a bit by Simonetta Santaniello
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I thought I knew westerns, I'd seen John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Glen Ford, Audie Murphy, Richard Widmark, Alan Ladd, all of them save the day many times. I was wrong, I was 14 yrs old when I went to the local movie house to see this movie in 1969. My grandmother took me, she had always been a huge fan of Henry Fonda's, and even though she didn't care for western's, she dragged me to this one. I'll never forget how engrossed I was from beginning to end. And this one movie was the basis for all my future wish's to have been born a cowboy. Everything about this movie impressed me one way or the other.
Simply put, this movie is the most visually stimulating and engrossing movie I have ever watched.
I have seen plenty of great movies in my in my fifty years of life, but this one, is in my opinion more than a movie, it's a piece of history unfolding in front of your eyes with no censorship or BS added for flavor. True, the movie has been chopped up some for TV and other forms of presentation, but when I was in that theater in 1969, the movie was, to use a semi modern term "AWESOME".
No one, not even if you dislike westerns, should pass on this one.