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Once Upon a Time in the West [DVD] [1 disc] [Region 1]

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  • Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda, playing against type), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion of the railroad. After Frank murders land owner Brett McBain (Frank Wolff), McBain's widow (Claudia Cardinale) hires two killers of her own to protect her and gain revenge: a mysterious, harmonica-playing desperado (Charles Bronson) and his rogue sidekick (Jason Robards). Using techniques previously unseen in the genre, Sergio Leone utilizes close-ups, color, and Ennio Morricone's trademark score to create a tense and somber meditation on death which is widely considered to be one of the best westerns in cinematic history. Soon-to-be legendary Italian directors Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA) and Bernardo Bertolucci (THE LAST EMPEROR) collaborated with Leone on the screenplay.
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  • Credits
    Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Jason Robards
  • Critic Reviews
    "...Director Sergio Leone's 'spaghetti' masterpiece'..."
    USA Today

    "...Brilliant....Brutal, bloody and poetic, this is, without hyperbole, one of the greatest Westerns ever made..."
    Total Film

    "...One beautiful image follows another....Throughout, Leone is a master of the expressive gesture in celebration of an Old West that exists more in our imaginations than it ever did in reality..."
    Los Angeles Times

    "...Bronson and Fonda never looked better..."
    Movieline's Hollywood Life

    Ranked #18 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "[I]t's simultaneously an elegy, a critique and a fairytale of the cowboy myth."
    Uncut

    "[A] masterpiece....Leone's epic about a trio of outlaws is set during the last death-rattle days of the Old West." -- Grade: A
    Entertainment Weekly

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