C'era una volta il West

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C'era una volta il West (1968 / Director: Sergio Leone)

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More on this film:
  • Runtime: 164 min / 165 min (Paramount DVD) / 177 min (special long version, italian DVD)
  • Release Date: 21.12.68
  • Filming Locations: Almería, Guadix, Monument Valley (USA)

Also known as

Once Upon a Time in the West | Play Me the Song of Death | Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod (Germany) | Il était une fois dans l'ouest (France) | Aconteceu no Oeste (Portugal) | Hasta que llegó su hora(Spain) | Harmonica - en hamnare (Sweden) | Pewnego razu na Dzikim Zachodzie (Poland) | Huuliharppukostaja (Finland) | Hasta que llego su hora (Spain) | Bir Zamanlar Batıda (Turkey) | Era uma vez no Oeste (Brazil)

Cast and crew

  • Cast: Henry Fonda (Frank), Claudia Cardinale (Jill McBain), Charles Bronson (Harmonica), Jason Robards (Manuel 'Cheyenne' Gutierrez), Gabriele Ferzetti (Mr. Morton), Woody Strode (Stony), Jack Elam (Snaky), Lionel Stander (barman), Paolo Stoppa (Sam), Frank Wolff, Marco Zuanelli (Wobbles), Al Mulock (Knuckles), Keenan Wynn (Sheriff of Flagstone), Simonetta Santaniello (Maureen McBain), Enzo Santaniello (Timmy McBain), Luigi Ciavarro (deputy sheriff), John Frederick (Jim), Spartaco Conversi (Frank henchman), Aldo Berti (Frank henchman), Michael Harvey (Frank henchman), Antonio Molino Rojo (Frank's henchman), Benito Stefanelli (Frank's henchman), Frank Braña (Frank's henchman), Fabio Testi (Frank henchman), Claudio Scarchilli (Frank henchman), Aldo Sambrell (Cheyenne henchman), Salvo Basile (Cheyenne henchman), Bruno Corazzari (Cheyenne henchman), Claudio Mancini (Harmonica's brother), Luana Strode (squaw), Tullio Palmieri (carpenter), Renato Pinviroli (1st auction bidder), Ricardo Palacios (engineer), Robert Spafford (railroad worker), Bill Crawley (railroad worker), Francesca Leone (girl at Flagstone station), Raffaella Leone (girl at Flagstone station), Livio Andronico, Paolo Figlia, Stefano Imparato, Frank Leslie, Luigi Magnani, Umberto Morsella, Enrico Morsella, Corrado San Martin, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Dino Zamboni, Lorenzo Robledo (uncredited)
  • Story: Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone
  • Screenplay: Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati
  • Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli (Technicolor, Techniscope 2,35:1)
  • Music: Ennio Morricone
  • Producer: Fulvio Morsella

Plot and characters

Frank (Henry Fonda), Harmonica (Charles Bronson), Cheyenne (Jason Robards), Jill (Claudia Cardinale)

Gangster Frank is a killer who's job it is to clear a poor farmer (Wolff) off his land. After he killed the entire family, the farmer's wife Jill arrives in town shortly after Harmonica , a gunman who's motives are yet unknown. While Jill starts off from scratch, Harmonica, Frank and a dubious killer named Cheyenne seem to get entangled in the entire dispute about the territory that the railroad wants, and Jill now has.

Soundtrack

Music: Ennio Morricone

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