Once Upon a Time in the West
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Tarantino returns to grind up Nazis...seriously are they meant to be taken? Depends on who you're talking about and the topic. When (Italian director) Sergio Leone did 'Once Upon a Time in the West,' was that what the west was really like? Or was it his version - the vision and... In this article: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Brad Pitt, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Universal Studios, Derivative, Filmmaker, and Melanie Laurent |
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True/Slant | November 02, 2009
What Tarantino should do next
...up Inglorious Basterds with a western. And what Quentin talks about when he talks about "western" is a Sergio Leone picture, of course. Once Upon a Time in the West, not High Noon. Welp pardner, I think this is a bad idea, and I'll tell...
In this article: Quentin Tarantino, Basterds, P.T. Anderson, Pulp Fiction, Dog, Kill Bill, Gerbils, Tobacco, and Midnight Cowboy
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Wikipedia | October 17, 2009
Once Upon a Time in the West (soundtrack)
Once Upon a Time in the West is a soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone, from the epic spaghetti Western film of the same name directed by Sergio Leone. The film score sold between 5 and 10 million copies worldwide. Several of the songs...
In this article: Knights of Cydonia, K-1, Remy Bonjasky, Ennio Morricone, Hard-Fi, Sergio Leone, Fields of the Nephilim, and Carrie Fisher
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | October 16, 2009
AICN-Downunder: ASTRO BOY, IMAGINARIUM OF DR P, THE INVENTION OF LYING, and Leone!
...title came up, I started doing a little jig in my seat. (Jig = dance, to avoid potential disgust.) This was, indeed, my first time seeing OUATITW, and I'm glad I waited. I was about to here discuss Leone's strengths as a director, but soon...
In this article: Ricky Gervais, The Damned United, Sergio Leone, Peter Morgan, Michael Sheen, Jennifer Garner, Terry Gilliam, and Nicolas Cage
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | October 11, 2009
Affairs and graces: Marina Cicogna's snapshots
...from the Onassis yacht 'Christina' in 1960 Countess Marina Cicogna, the venerable Italian movie producer whose films include Once Upon A Time In The West and whose grandfather, Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, founded the Venice Film...
In this article: Jeanne Moreau, Viva Maria!, Catherine Deneuve, Greta Garbo, Pier Paulo Pasolini, Tony Richardson, Audrey Hepburn, Venice Film Festival, and Cecil Beaton
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | October 04, 2009
Morricone Conducts Morricones At The Hollywood Bowl October 25th!
...THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966), THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987), CINEMA PARADISO (1988), ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984), THE MISSION (1986), ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968), A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964), SACCO AND VANZETTI (1971), THE BATTLE...
In this article: Hollywood Bowl, Ain't It Cool News, Ennio Morricone, Cinema Paradiso, Trademark, The Battle of Algiers, and A Fistful of Dollars
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The Advertiser | September 01, 2009
PASA readies for its 20th season
...that made Clint Eastwood a star. The stunning Ennio Morricone soundtrack includes The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, For A Few Dollars More and Once Upon a Time in The West. The music is underscored with hilarious sound effects - recreating every...
In this article: Porgy and Bess, Ennio Morricone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Clint Eastwood
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Entertainment Weekly | August 20, 2009
Tarantino: Spot the reference!
...in Nazi-occupied France. " Of course, this is an homage to Italian directing god Sergio Leone's epic westerns, most obviously 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West. And if it wasn't clear enough, Tarantino borrows several music cues from...
In this article: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Bonnie and Clyde, Sergio Leone, Til Schweiger, Eli Roth, Brad Pitt, and Rolling Thunder
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | August 13, 2009
Film: Review:Spread
...trust a man who wears a belt and suspenders? Man can't even trust his own pants. " These words of wisdom, uttered by Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West, might have saved the women of Los Angeles from the scourge of Ashton Kutcher's...
In this article: Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Los Angeles, David Mackenzie, Peter Bogdanovich, Henry Fonda, Margarita Levieva, and Warren Beatty
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Times Online | July 22, 2009
Once Upon a Time in the West
Navigation - link to other main sections from here For a lesson in how to resuscitate a dying genre, you could do worse than Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone's masterpiece from 1968. Leone makes his subversive intentions clear...
In this article: Sergio Leone, Henry Fonda, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Claudia Cardinale
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IGN Music | November 05, 2007
IGN: Once Upon A Time In The West Review
Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West Review How do UK rockers follow up 'poor man's debut' after success? by Chad Grischow November 5, 2007 - If you spend your gritty, homemade debut album talking about how hard life is, with more...
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Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. The film stars Henry Fonda cast against type as the villain Frank, Charles Bronson as his nemesis "Harmonica", Jason Robards as the bandit Cheyenne and Claudia Cardinale as Jill, a newly-widowed homesteader with a past as a prostitute. The screenplay was written by Leone and Sergio Donati, from a story devised by Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and Ennio Morricone provided the film score.
In Europe, the film was a substantial box office success, playing for multiple years in some cities. However, it was greeted with a mostly negative critical response upon its 1969 theatrical release in the United States and was a financial flop. The film is now generally acknowledged as a masterpiece and one of the best western films ever made. ==Plot==
The film opens at an isolated train station in Arizona. The station master is changing the expected arrival time of a train to show that it will be late. Three gunmen (Jack Elam, Woody Strode and Al Mulock) arrive at the station with an ambience of tension and foreboding. They wait, trying to occupy themselves. Eventually, the train arrives, and only a man playing a harmonica (Charles Bronson) disembarks. He asks for Frank, but the three men have been sent instead. A showdown ensues. The man who was playing the harmonica is the only survivor. On the remote farm Sweetwater, Brett McBain (Frank Wolff) and his children prepare a feast for the arrival of his new wife, Jill. Frank (Henry Fonda) and his gang emerge from the desert and kill all four McBains.
- Name:
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Country of Origin:
- Italy
- Release Date:
- December 21, 1968
- Directed By:
- Sergio Leone
- Produced by:
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- Bino Cicogna (executive)
- Fulvio Mosella
- Written By:
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- Dario Argento
- Story:
- Screenplay:
- Sergio Leone
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Sergio Donati
- Cinematography:
- Tonino Delli Colli
- Music By:
- Ennio Morricone
- Distributed By:
- Paramount
- Length:
- 175 minutes
- Language:
- Italian
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