Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian title: C'era una volta il West) is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. The film stars Henry Fonda unusually cast as the villain Frank, Charles Bronson as his nemesis "Harmonica", Jason Robards as the generally benign bandit Cheyenne and Claudia Cardinale as a newly-widowed homesteader with a past as a prostitute, Jill. 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 classic and one of the best western films ever made. It is the first part of a loose trilogy of epic, elegiac films followed by 1971's A Fistful of Dynamite (known alternatively as Once Upon a Time... The Revolution or Duck, You Sucker) and 1984's Once Upon a Time in America. (more)
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Genres: entertainment, movies
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Once Upon a Time in America:
Once Upon a Time in America (Italian title C'era una volta in America) is a 1984 crime film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The story chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York C
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A Fistful of Dynamite:
A Fistful of Dynamite is a 1971 Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone (original Italian title: Giù la testa ("Duck your Head!"); also known as Duck, You Sucker and Once Upon a Time … The Revolution. Leone was known to prefer the title Duck,
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Charles Bronson:
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, Lithuanian name Karolis Bučinskis, November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor known for "tough guy" roles who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificen
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Henry Fonda:
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American Academy Award-winning film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization
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Ennio Morricone:
Ennio Morricone OMRI (born November 10, 1928), is an award-winning Italian composer. He composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions. Morricone wrote the characteristic soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti western
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Sergio Leone:
Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 - April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director. Leone is well-known for his spaghetti western films and his style of juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots and original music soundtracks. His most wel
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Claudia Cardinale:
Claudia Cardinale (born April 15, 1938) is an Italian actress born in Tunis, Tunisia. The most notable films she has appeared in include 8½ (1963) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).
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Frank Wolff (actor):
Walter Frank Hermann Wolff (May 111928—December 121971) was a versatile American actor whose prolific movie career began with roles in five 1958-61 Roger Corman productions and ended a decade later in Rome, after scores of appearances in Europe
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Paolo Stoppa:
Paolo Stoppa (June 6 1906 - May 1 1988) was a prolific Italian actor and dubber. Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932. He made some 194 appearances between 1932 and his retirement in
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Christopher Frayling:
Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture. He read history at Churchill College, Cambridge and gained a PhD in the study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He taught hi
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