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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Dario Argento (story) &
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Release Date:
21 December 1968 (Italy) more
Genre:
Tagline:
There were three men in her life. One to take her... one to love her... and one to kill her.
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins & 1 nomination more
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(37 articles)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Once Upon a Time in the West (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (Australia)
There Was Once the West (USA) (literal English title)
Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
Однажды на Диком Западе (Soviet Union: Russian title) [ru]
Érase una vez en el Oeste (Argentina) [es]
Aconteceu no Oeste (Portugal) [pt]
Batida kan var (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Bilo jednom na divljem zapadu (Serbia) [sr]
Dawno temu na dzikim Zachodzie (Poland) [pl]
Era Uma Vez no Oeste (Brazil) [pt]
Fins que li va arribar l'hora (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
Harmonica - en hämnare (Sweden) [sv]
Harmonika - en hämnare (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
Hasta que llegó su hora (Spain) [es]
Het gebeurde in het westen (Netherlands) [nl]
Huuliharppukostaja (Finland) [fi]
Il était une fois dans l'Ouest (Canada: French title) [fr]
Il était une fois dans l'ouest (France) [fr]
Kapote sti Dysi (Greece) [el]
Pewnego razu na Dzikim Zachodzie (Poland) [pl]
Vestens hårde halse (Denmark) [da]
Volt egyszer egy vadnyugat (Hungary) [hu]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for western violence and brief sensuality. (re-rated; rated M/PG in 1969)
Runtime:
Italy:175 min | 165 min (international version) | Finland:137 min (1970)
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:13+ (Quebec) (original rating) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) (re-rating) (2004) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-16 (cut) (re-rating) (1977) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1970) | Brazil:14 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | Norway:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (re-rating) (2000) | UK:15 (video rating) (1989) | UK:AA (original rating) | USA:M (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (2003) | USA:PG (re-rating) (1969) | West Germany:16 (w)
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Trivia:
Body count: 29 more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Cheyenne shoots the man who's guarding Harmonica through the train window, there is no blood on the chair the man was sitting in, despite the fact that he was shot at pointblank range. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Station agent: Hey - hey hey hey hey, if you want any tickets, you'll have to go around to, eh, to, eh, the front of the, eh... oooh, well, I s'pose it'll be all right.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Spaghetti West (2005) (V) more

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What is the sequence of events involving the ambush of Frank in Flagstone and Cheyenne's attack on Morton's train?
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108 out of 164 people found the following comment useful.
Far Away The Best Movie Ever, 9 November 2004
10/10
Author: tiberijegrozni

This is one true masterpiece, I can't remember any other movie (and I have seen a lot of movies) that is so powerful like this one. This movie has everything great ambient, scenes larger then life, hypnotic Morricone music and what is most important great acting. In this move Sergio Leone proved that he is one of the most unique directors in movie history. If you saw this movie you know that almost every scene is great piece of art in almost every scene you are amazed by visual style of Leone. In all other great movies (like: Godfather, Casablanca, Citizen Cane, Notorious,Big Sleep, The Third Man, etc.), you won't find these many great scenes like in this one. This is an ultimate Western and i want to say: Thank you Sergio Leone for your great vision and this masterpiece, after this one there is no need for any other western, in compare to this one John Fords westerns are movies for kids and women.

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