Once Upon a Time in the West (1968 )

Our Rating: 10.0

IMDb Ratings : 8 .7

Genre: Adventure | Western

Country: Italy | USA

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 175 min

Color: Color (Technicolor)

Summary: 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.

O nce Upon a Time in the West is a piquant cocktail of style and substance in equal parts, potent enough to catapult the viewer into a whirlpool of incessant excitement, transcending him beyond the usual realms of an adrenaline rush. Vintage Leone,

Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West

by blending his favorite theme of Greed with that of Revenge. The only thing that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly lacked was the presence of a strong female character and Leone more than makes up for it in

Once Upon a Time in the West

. Its eccentric yet consummate plot revolves around a female protagonist, thereby revolutionizing the very tenets associated with the genre, a realm where machismo and chivalry had hitherto held sway.



