ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

Érase una vez en el Oeste – Argentinian title

Era uma vez no Oeste – Brazilain title

Hasta que llegó su hora – Columbian title

Vestens hårde hales – Danish title

Het gebeurde in het westen – Dutch title

Huuliharppukostaja – Finnish title

Harmonika - en hämnare – Finnish title

Il etait une fois dans l’Ouest – French title

Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod – German title

Kapote sti Dysi – Greek title

Volt egyszer egy vadnyugat – Hungarian title

C’era un a volta il west – Italian title

Uesutan – Japanese title

Erase una vez en el oeste – Mexican title

Ondt blod i Vesten – Norwegian title

Pewnego razu na Dzikim Zachodzie – Polish title

Aconteceu no Oeste – Portuguese title

Undeva, candva in Vest – Romanian title

Однажды на Диком Западе – Russian title

Hasta que llego su hora – Spanish title

Fins que li va arribar l'hora – Spanish title

Harmonica - En hämnare – Swedish title

Batida Kan Var – Turkish title

Bir Zamanlar Batida – Turkish title

Bilo jednom na divljem zapadu – Yugoslavian title

Play Me the Song of Death – English title

There Was Once the West – English title

Once Upon a Time in the West – English title

A 1968 Italian, U.S.A. co-production [Rafran Productions, San Marco Productions (Rome), Paramount (Hollywood)]

Producer: Fulvio Morsella

Director: Sergio Leone

Story: Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone

Screenplay: Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone

English Dialogue: Mickey Knox (Abraham Knox)

Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli (Antonio Delli Colli) [Technicolor, Techniscope]

Music: Ennio Morricone

Running time: 171 minutes

Cast:

Frank – Henry Fonda

Harmonica – Charles Bronson

Jill McBain – Claudia Cardinale

Manuel ‘Cheyenne’ Gutierrez – Jason Robards (Jason Robards, Jr.)

Mr. Morton – Gabriele Ferzetti (Pasquale Ferzetti)

Sam – Paolo Stoppa

Stony – Woody Strode (Woodrow Strode)

Snaky – Jack Elam (William Elam)

Knuckles – Al Mulock (Alfred Rogers)

Sheriff of Flagstone – Keenan Wynn (Francis Wynn)

Brett McBain – Frank Wolff (Frank Herman)

Maureen McBain – Simonetta Santaniello

Patrick McBain – Gaetano Santaniello

Timmy McBain – Enzo Santaniello

Wobbles – Marco Zuanelli

Barman – Lionel Stander

Flagstone Deputy sheriff – Luigi Ciavarro

Jim – John Frederick (Frederick Stiffler, Jr.)

Vecino – Conrado San Martin (Conrado Prieto)

Franks’ henchmen – Spartaco Conversi, Aldo Berti, Michael Harvey, Antonio Molino Rojo, Benito Stefanelli, Fabio Testi, Frank Braña (Francisco Pérez), Saturnino Cerra, Paolo Figlia

Cheyenne henchmen – Aldo Sambrell (Alfredo Brell), Salvo Basile (Salvatore Basile), Bruno Corazzari, Claudio Scarchilli

Harmonica’s brother – Claudio Mancini

Young Frank’s henchmen at arch – Don Galloway Enrico Morsella, Umberto Morsella

Cattle Crossing station master – Joseph Bradley

Indian squaw – Luana Strode (Luukialuana Kalaeloa)

Carpenter – Tulio Palmieri

1st auction bidder – Renato Pinciroli

Engineer – Ricardo Palacios

Railroad foreman – Bill Crawley (William Crawley)

Railroad worker – Robert Spafford

Girls at Flagstone station – Francesca Leone, Raffaella Leone

Posse member – John Landis

Women at McBain Funeral - Marilù Carteny, Sandra Salvatori
men at way station - Dino Zamboni, Federico Boido

With: Livio Andronico, Stefano Imparato, Frank Leslie, Luigi Magnani, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia (Ivan Scratuglia), Alessandro Alessandroni, Robert Hossein

A trio of rough-and-tumble killers quietly awaits the arrival of a train at a dilapidated local station called Cattle Corner. The men, calmly standing in the noonday sun with the sweaty swagger and bloodthirsty eyes of desperados, One of the men's vain attempts to dissuade a fly from resting on his face, another collects water on his hat from under a dripping water tank while a third calmly cracks his knuckles while they wait for a train scheduled to arrive shortly. When the train finally arrives it seems the man they were sent to meet does not depart. As they three gunmen prepare to leave the twang of an eerie harmonica sounds and they turn to see a man on the opposite side of the departing train. When he asks, “And Frank?” They respond, “Frank sent us.” The man then replies, “Did you bring a horse for me?” One laughs and says, “We’re shy one horse”. The man states, “No you brought two too many.” With that hands flash down to holsters and gunfire erupts.

After disposing of Frank's goons at the station, Harmonica slowly finds himself drawn into a drama involving a feisty and jaw-dropping gorgeous widow, named Jill, of a slain local businessm and Cheyenne a scruffy outlaw, who's being framed for the murder of Mr. McBain and his three children. Frank has killed the McBains, but the motivation for their murder is slowly. Morton, the owner of a transcontinental railroad, dying of tuberculosis of the bones is pressing to reach the Pacific Ocean and won’t let anything or anyone get in his way.

Frank plants evidence to place the blame on the McBain massacre on Cheyenne’s men. Harmonica and Cheyenne join forces to help Jill settle her estate, save her ranch and McBains dream of a station on the railroad line. Harmonica also settles a long standing affair with Frank over the murder of his brother that has haunted him for many years. In the end Frank and Cheyenne die, Harmonic finds revenge and Jill starts a new life in a new west.

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKQq8XKRNlI