Un ex-gangster ebreo dell'epoca proibizionista ritorna nel Lower East Side di Manhattan più di trent'anni dopo, dove ancora una volta deve confrontarsi con i fantasmi e i rimpianti della sua... Leggi tuttoUn ex-gangster ebreo dell'epoca proibizionista ritorna nel Lower East Side di Manhattan più di trent'anni dopo, dove ancora una volta deve confrontarsi con i fantasmi e i rimpianti della sua vecchia vita.Un ex-gangster ebreo dell'epoca proibizionista ritorna nel Lower East Side di Manhattan più di trent'anni dopo, dove ancora una volta deve confrontarsi con i fantasmi e i rimpianti della sua vecchia vita.
- Ha vinto 2 BAFTA Award
- 11 vittorie e 13 candidature totali
- Eve
- (as Darlanne Fleugel)
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- QuizWhen filming was completed, the footage ran to a total of eight to ten hours. Director Sergio Leone and editor Nino Baragli trimmed the footage to around six hours, with the plan of releasing the film as two three-hour movies. The producers refused this idea, and Leone had to further cut the film down to three hours and forty-nine minutes.
- BlooperWhen celebrating the end of the Prohibition Era, four bottles are opened with machetes. However, the actor in the back to the right fails to open his bottle cleanly and accidentally smashes it in half before quickly walking off-screen with the broken bottle.
- Citazioni
Noodles: [to Deborah] There were two things I couldn't get out of my mind. One was Dominic, the way he said, "I slipped," just before he died. The other was you. How you used to read me your Song of Songs, remember? "How beautiful are your feet / In sandals, O prince's daughter." I used to read the Bible every night. Every night I used to think about you. "Your navel is a bowl / Well-rounded with no lack of wine / Your belly, a heap of wheat / Surrounded with lilies / Your breasts / Clusters of grapes / Your breath, sweet-scented as apples." Nobody's gonna love you the way I loved you. There were times I couldn't stand it any more. I used to think of you. I'd think, "Deborah lives. She's out there. She exists." And that would get me through it all. You know how important that was to me?
- Curiosità sui creditiJoey Faye is credited as the "adorable old man."
- Versioni alternativeFor its U.S. theatrical release the film was cut by 90 minutes from 3 hours and 49 minutes to 2 hours and 19 minutes despite the original cut gaining rave reviews at the film's premiere at Cannes. Many film critics gave two separate reviews for the film. While the complete European version was highly praised, the heavily edited US theatrical release was critically butchered.
- ConnessioniEdited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985)
- Colonne sonoreGod Bless America
Music by Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin Music Corporation
Performed by Kate Smith
Courtesy of RCA Record
The film explores the heart, Noodles soul. A man struggling with himself, someone who plays evil acts, a man who sees the pure in his childhood sweetheart. A man never at peace.
The film is directed by Leone, a master of his art. I'm a huge fan of his work. Each of his films got better and better, and Once Upon A time In America was a picture which had all the experience which he achieved in the 60s. It's almost a gift to himself.
The film's locations are stunning, authentic and dirty.
The screenplay is excellent, but the direction makes the film. Maybe one or two characters were underwritten, but it seems that the director wanted us to talk about the picture, discuss the possible loose ends, make up our own minds. Leone's methodical pacing is stunning.
The acting is tremendous, can't praise James Woods and Robert De Niro enough, awesome!
The photography is beautiful, it lacks colour giving it a gritty look, perfection!
Morricone delivers another masterpiece, his score adds further depth and backups the director's story.
See it wide-screen, this film is a stunning piece of cinema. Leone, you were the master!
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- 3 gen 2001
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Dettagli
- Data di uscita
- Paesi di origine
- Siti ufficiali
- Lingue
- Celebre anche come
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Aziende produttrici
- Vedi altri crediti dell’azienda su IMDbPro
Botteghino
- Budget
- 30.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 5.321.508 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 2.412.014 USD
- 3 giu 1984
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 5.475.086 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione3 ore 49 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1