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Another engaging epic by Sergio Leone, whose Man-with-no-name sagas brought another dimension to the Western. With all the realism and grit that makes the story as honest as each day, Leone chose all his actors as if they only had to don the costumes to be the characters whose role they played. The honesty of the portrayals makes the characters more than just believable. Using Ennio Morricone for the musical score adds another piece to the epic, by assigning each character with his/her own signature musical score, as they appearedin the story. Leone also used many of his former colleagues to achieve the winning formula in producing this epic.
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An epic Italian western spanning several years. Henry Fonda plays the bad, bad guy, and Charles Bronson plays the good good guy. Jason Robards plays a good bad guy or is it a bad good guy. You get to choose. And Claudia Cardinale plays a good bad girl it is it a bad good girl. Again you get to choose. The story is epic in scope: an entrepreneur comes west, buying up lots of cheap land where a railroad could come through. When the RR commits to building thru his land, the entrepreneur and his family are murdered by land grabbers, but they somehow miss his new bride (Cardinale) and she inherits. Cardinale is then by turns romanced, threatened, scammed and coerced to give up her inheritance, and so the story goes... Filmed in Spain, this has great visuals, great music, and terrific actors telling a great story, with several stories w/in stories, all leading to an epic conclusion. Entertaining, involving, enchanting and engaging, this film is a lot of fun, telling a story in a way Hollywood never would. They haven't got the skill or the patience. This is a classic Italian Western well worth the time to view it. Get a copy for yourself and enjoy. Read full review
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One of the greatest films ever made and a top 5 western. The music alone is a work of musical art. I have listened to Orchestras in the North America, all over Europe, South America and Asia perform the entire score. The film itself is an accurate representation of the true America West - no clean cut folks. The story is mesmerizing and its difficult to keep one's eye off the screen. All film collectors need to acquire tis film.
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This film is Sergio Leone's American-budget Western made after his Clint Eastwood "Dollar" trilogy of films. It had a scope and budget far exceeding "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", and it is a 2-hour 45-minute tour de force for Leone and his crew. The set-work is stunning, and very different from the run-of-the-mill U.S. studio Western. Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Jason Robards really hit their roles perfectly. Chas. Bronson does a good job as well, though his role is the most predictable and straight-forward of the leading roles in the movie. The "extra's" on the Collector's Edition are well worthwhile, although listening to all the commentary over the film is not as good as film fans sometimes hope, simply because it detracts from enjoying the film. One thing many people will not enjoy is that the audio in the film was over-dubbed from the beginning, and it takes a long time in the movie to quit noticing it. At least the "making of" "extras" explain why Leone had to over-dub his films, something which was much more common then anyway. Truly one of the best western films yet made.Read full review
I saw this film for the first time probably 30 years ago and still remember most of the scenes and especially the music. However, the use of silence, in image and in sound, is probably what makes it the best western around and one of the best movies I've ever seen. Sergio Leone does not need computer animated graphics, does not even need you to see what is going on (the scene outside the roadside bar when we first meet Cheyenne, or when the first shot gets fired at the family killing), does not need to do a lot of talking, just needs fabulous acting and fabulous photography. Of course the music of Enio Morricone makes it even stronger, giving each character its own "soundtrack" (in today's terms), but I am quite sure that even as a silent movie this one would come a very long way. Fonda, Bronson, Robards give a superb performance and Cardinale can compete with every beauty queen from the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties and forever. In short, an absolutely fantastic movie. If there is one negative I could say of the movie, for today's audiences, is that I guess many people find the silence and the slow speed hard to deal with. Batman flies, runs, jumps aroudn all the time and Spiderman even more. The real hero, however, plays the harmonica, talks little, and most importantly, can wait...Read full review
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