Once Upon a Time in the West
Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
2 March 1940, Reinosa, Cantabria, Spain
27 July 1916, New York City, New York, USA
2 September 1928, Rome, Lazio, Italy
23 February 1931, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
22 January 1905, Costiglione d'Asti, Asti, Piedmont, Italy
16 May 1905, Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
December 30, 1927 in Paris, France
6 June 1906, Rome, Lazio, Italy
October 6, 1916 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
11 May 1928, San Francisco, California, USA
10 February 1924, Rome, Lazio, Italy
December 30, 1940 in Castellarano, Italy
July 4, 1916 in Norwalk, Iowa, USA
30 November 1954, Rome, Lazio, Italy
25 July 1914, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 June 1926, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20 February 1921, Higuera de las Dueñas, Ávila, Castilla y León, Spain
2 August 1941, Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Veneto, Italy
27 July 1937, Brooksville, Kentucky, USA
15 April 1938, Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia [now Tunisia]
26 July 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 November 1920, Miami, Arizona, USA
25 August 1913
1921
24 February 1934, Pola de Allande, Asturias, Spain
September 08, 2013
Gunslingers, one-road towns, horse and buggies... Once Upon a Time in the West has them all, and spread across a sprawling near three hour running time that is as punishing on the ol' rickety knees as it is rewarding to the eyes.July 24, 2009
'Once Upon a Time...' now looks like an over-cooked mess of style, metaphor and reference.October 06, 2016
[Sergio] Leone creates a horseback epic of bad guys with a heart of gold and an iron engine that reshapes the landscape as its tracks are laid through the wilderness.August 22, 2012
Leone shows his skills with superb mastery over the medium.June 06, 2016
Is Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) the best western of all time?June 18, 2013
There is something touching and maniacal about the two-and-three-quarter- hour result.September 29, 2005
Leone (1921-1989) is here at the peak of his epic powers.August 07, 2014
Once Upon a Time in the West is the mythic Western; an ode to the end of its era.May 09, 2005
It is mostly fun for the way it cherishes movie styles and attitudes from the past.January 30, 2012
Sergio Leone's Western is his undisputed masterpiece, a lush, sensuous, elegiac operatic film made on epic yet intimate scale.September 27, 2005
If only the first 10 minutes of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West still existed, this most hyperbolic of oat operas would still be acknowledged as one of the genre's greatest exhumations.