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Once Upon A Time In The West
(Cera una volta il West)
Release date 21st December 1968
Country : Italy/USA
Running time : 165 mins
Genre : Western
Starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale
Screenplay by Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Dario Argento
Directed by Sergio Leone


    A mysterious stranger joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

A great movie which was the height of the spaghetti western genre, at times a bit slow but you can't really argue with it as a masterful piece of cinema and casting Henry Fonda as a villain was surprising but a masterstroke. The overall theme is one of the death of the old West just as the Italian flavoured western took the genre as far it could go.

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Henry Fonda originally turned down the picture but was convinced when Leone told him this : "the camera shows a gunman from the waist down pulling his gun and shooting a running child. The camera pans up to the gunman's face and... it's Henry Fonda."
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