Once Upon a Time in the West
Sergio Leone’s 1968 masterpiece gives the lie to the term “spaghetti western.” In a hastily shortened version it was a box-office disappointment in the U.S. but it played in the same theater in Paris for years. The cast is one for the ages. Henry Fonda, playing one of the great villains in movie history, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and most poignantly, Claudia Cardinale, whose presence inspired one of Ennio Morricone’s most memorable melodies, “Jill’s America.”
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John Landis is the director of Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf In London, Trading Places, Schlock, Kentucky Fried Movie, Spies Like Us, Three Amigos!, Into The Night, The Stupids, Innocent Blood, Coming To America, Burke & Hare, and Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Black Or White among many other films, commercials and extensive work in television. He was the Executive Producer and often director of HBO's celebrated series Dream On, and contributed two movies to the Masters of Horror series, Deer Woman and Family. His feature length documentaries Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project premiered on HBO, and Slasher on IFC.
This is far more than a mere film.
Sergio Leone had wanted Henry Fonda for the Dollars trilogy, but he wasn’t available or something.
Leone only did two movies after this (Duck You Sucker and Once Upon a Time in America), but truly left his mark on cinema.
And one more thing: anyone who doesn’t agree that Claudia Cardinale was a real babe needs his head examined.
Replace “real babe” with Gift To The World and, JAF, you’re almost there.
I have faith in you!