Set during the American Civil War, the story deals with three mean desperadoes who have their eyes on a $200,000 treasure. Besides battling with the local authorities, they also have to contend with each other... Read more
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega |
|---|---|
| Director | Sergio Leone |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Set during the American Civil War, the story deals with three mean desperadoes who have their eyes on a $200,000 treasure. Besides battling with the local authorities, they also have to contend with each other...
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega, Aldo Giuffre |
|---|---|
| Director | Sergio Leone |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Dutch, English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Feb 2000 Production year: 1966 |
| Format | DVD |
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Sergio Leone's monumental epic Once Upon A Time In The West ranks among the five or six all-time Western masterpieces. read more »
The best epic westerns ever made and the ultimate male macho movie. This was the first DVD I purchased. (Even b4 I had a DVD Player!) Three men whose lives cross when they search for confederate Gold. This film is long, even by today's standards, but worth watching just for the 3-way gunfight at Sad-Hill cemetary to discover which grave holds the dirty loot. Sergio Leone's use of close-ups of the characters with sweeping backgrounds and Ennio Morricone score are legendary.
Brilliant...just as I remember it!
Clint Eastwood is the master of the westerns...John Wayne doesnt even come close!
Nobody could make something out of nothing the way that Sergio Leone could. Just look at the first ten minutes of Once Upon a Time in the West: a fistful of tough hombres in ankle-length dusters are waiting for a train at a railway depot out in the middle of nowhere. Their faces are familiar yet strange: Woody Strode and Jack Elam are veteran Hollywood cowboys, with dozens of movies under their belts. But they have never been filmed like this before, gazed at so long or so longingly. Leone... Read more