C'era una volta il West

Titolo originale: C'era una volta il West
Regia: Sergio Leone
Anno: 1968
Origine: Italy United States of America
Generi: Dramma Western
Tag: small town | loss of loved one | harmonica | wedding party | spaghetti western | arizona territory | intercontintental railroad | outlaw gang | water pump | mysterious character | boom town | railroad company | hope for a new life | railroad construction |
Cast: Claudia Cardinale Henry Fonda Jason Robards Charles Bronson Gabriele Ferzetti Paolo Stoppa Woody Strode Jack Elam Keenan Wynn Frank Wolff Lionel Stander Frank Braña Stefano Imparato Claudio Mancini Al Mulock Antonio Palombi Renato Pinciroli Aldo Sambrell Conrado San Martín Enzo Santaniello Simonetta Santaniello Luana Strode Fabio Testi Marco Zuanelli Antonio Molino Rojo Román Ariznavarreta John Frederick Aldo Berti Spartaco Conversi Saturno Cerra Paolo Figlia Dino Mele Simonetta Stefanelli Regina Elena Bisio Michael Harvey

Mentre i costruttori della ferrovia marciano inarrestabilmente attraverso il deserto dell'Arizona sulla loro strada verso il mare, Jill arriva nella piccola città di Flagstone intenzionata a iniziare una nuova vita.

Approfondimenti

At the opening duel, Woody Strode carries a "Mare's Leg" firearm (Winchester Model 1892), in a [...]	D
Unlike the Dollars trilogy, which were all solely shot in Spain, Sergio Leone travelled to the [...]	D
Spoilers: The character of "Harmonica" (Charles Bronson) in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) [...]	D
Clocks are a recurring image, many simply painted, or incomplete, reflecting the theme of time [...]	D
The duster coats featured in the film became the must-have fashion items in its day. The French [...]	D
Al Mulock, who played one of the three gunmen in the opening sequence, committed suicide by jum [...]	D
When Henry Fonda was trying to decide whether to be in this film, he asked his friend Eli Walla [...]	D
The opening sequence was copied indirectly, using Mezzogiorno di fuoco (1952).	D
After completing the Dollars trilogy (Per un pugno di dollari (1964), Per qualche dollaro in pi [...]	D
"Premiere" Magazine voted this as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies".	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
Harmonica's unfortunate brother was played by production manager Claudio Mancini.	D
This marked the first of the last three films to be fully directed by Sergio Leone. All three o [...]	D
There is a deleted scene where Harmonica, following the opening shoot-out, was beaten up by the [...]	D
Warren Beatty, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Terence Stamp were considered for Harmonica.	D
Sergio Leone made hundreds of references to films that influenced him. Some were quite obvious [...]	D
The credits, concluding with director Sergio Leone, last over ten minutes into the start of the [...]	D
Henry Fonda prepared for his role as the villain "Frank" by arriving in Italy with a pair of br [...]	D
In the opening scene, when Stony (Woody Strode) is under the water tank, water kept dripping on [...]	D
The saloon set seen when Jill talks with Harmonica after the auction was later used in "My Name [...]	D
John Carpenter, a huge fan of Sergio Leone and this film, had "Jill's Theme" by Ennio Morricone [...]	D
Luana Strode: The Indian woman who flees from the train station in the opening sequence. She wa [...]	D
The McBain house was built of solid logs that remained following production of the Orson Welles [...]	D
Body count: twenty-nine.	D
The main selling point to producers for the use of the Techniscope process was the savings in c [...]	D
The central plot of a ruthless railroad baron murdering a landowner for their water, is borrowe [...]	D
The character name of "Brett McBain" was derived from two famous U.S. mystery writers, Brett Ha [...]	D
Joyce Gordon (who did the dubbing for Claudia Cardinale, Mrs McBain) & Bernie Grant (who did th [...]	D
According to most people involved, Cheyenne had not been in Bernardo Bertolucci's and Dario Arg [...]	D
Over half of the film's budget was spent on the actors' salaries.	D
If you look carefully at Claudio Mancini's lip movements during the flashback in the final duel [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Ye [...]	D
The Flagstone set reportedly cost as much as the entire budget for Leone's Per un pugno di doll [...]	D
Charles Bronson plays a harmonica in this film and also played a harmonica in Robert Aldrich's [...]	D
Henry Fonda originally turned down the role of Frank. Director Sergio Leone flew to the United [...]	D
Paramount's trailer for the film was created by future film director Brian Trenchard-Smith.	D
Henry Fonda and Jack Elam appeared in L'ora della furia (1968) and The Red Pony (1973).	D
Sergio Leone: [theme] Jill, Harmonica/Frank, Cheyenne, and Morton.	D
Enrico Maria Salerno was considered for Mr. Morton.	D
Jack Elam and Keenan Wynn appeared in La valle dell'orso (1966).	D
Selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2009.	D
Although Lionel Stander's establishment is located in Monument Valley, the interiors were shot [...]	D
John Landis was one of the stuntmen on this film.	D
When Cheyenne meets Harmonica early in the story, he reveals Harmonica's gunshot wound (at the [...]	D
DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Sergio Leone): (close-up): In most gunfight scenes.	D
The McBain farmhouse location in Almeria turned up in Raiders Of The Lost Ark, as Marian's bar [...]	D
Final film of Simonetta Santaniello.	D
All of Lionel Stander's scenes were cut out for the truncated U.S. release.	D
For the opening sequence where the three dusters waited for the train, filmmakers lightly coate [...]	D
Ennio Morricone composed the musical score to the original screenplay by Sergio Leone and Berna [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
The most successful film released in France in 1969.	D
The Finnish title of the film is Huuliharppukostaja wich translates to Harmonica Avenger.	D
Cheyenne's real name was Manuel Gutierrez, according to the script. Sergio Leone didn't feel th [...]	D
Of the four main cast members, Henry Fonda and Jason Robards are the only ones who don't share [...]	D
The original treatment of the movie was written by Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, who w [...]	D
In Germany the movie was released with the title "Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod" which translates [...]	D
DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Sergio Leone): (Music): By Ennio Morricone.	D
Two years earlier, Claudia Cardinale and Woody Strode were co-stars in I professionisti (1966), [...]	D
The final duel between Frank and Harmonica was shot almost exactly like the one in L'occhio cal [...]	D
The first draft of the script was 436 pages long.	D
Robert Hossein, who was a good friend of Sergio Leone, was originally to play Morton, but due t [...]	D
Sergio Leone liked to tell the story of a cinema in Paris where the film ran uninterrupted for [...]	D
At Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands, co-writer Dario Argento said it was him tha [...]	D
Following the huge success of the Dollars trilogy, United Artists was prepared to finance Sergi [...]	D
Co-writer Bernardo Bertolucci said in interviews that it was his idea to have a female characte [...]	D
The story was concocted between Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, and Bernardo Bertolucci over sessi [...]	D
When Cheyenne tells Harmonica "When they do you in, pray it's someone who knows where to shoot, [...]	D
The film was dubbed into several languages following its completion, including Italian, English [...]	D
This is the only film in Sergio Leone's legacy in which the action revolves around a woman (Leo [...]	D
This is the second movie where Charles Bronson is a harmonica player. First was in the film Ver [...]	D
Robert Ryan was offered the role of the Sheriff played by Keenan Wynn. Ryan initially accepted, [...]	D
This was the first feature to involve Sergio Leone's newly formed company, Rafran, which was na [...]	D
In a deleted scene, Frank gets a shave at a perfume shop. Henry Fonda sits in the same position [...]	D
The scene in which Morton bribes Frank's men to working for himself instead has two poignant as [...]	D
Co-writer Bernardo Bertolucci says on the film's DVD that when he first suggested to director S [...]	D
The scene where Frank and his henchmen in dusters kill the McBain family is meant to signify th [...]	D
Claudia Cardinale's first day of filming was her nude love scene with Henry Fonda. This also ma [...]	D
There was some controversy over the casting of white actors Charles Bronson and Jason Robards a [...]	D
Afraid of being typecast having made three spaghetti Westerns in a row with Sergio Leone, Clint [...]	D
Harmonica does not blink even once during his final duel with Frank.	D
Sergio Leone originally intended to reunite the three stars of Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo [...]	D
Sergio Leone originally offered the role of Harmonica to Clint Eastwood, but he turned it down, [...]	D
Sergio Leone originally wanted Sophia Loren to play Jill McBain, and Carlo Ponti, her husband, [...]	D
The original intent for the opening scene was to use music already composed by Ennio Morricone. [...]	D
Kirk Douglas, an admirer of Sergio Leone, lobbied for the role of Cheyenne.	D
Claudia Cardinale wears fake eyelashes throughout the movie. Fake eyelashes were invented by Ma [...]	D
For this film, Claudia Cardinale and Paolo Stoppa took the longest buggy ride in movie history. [...]	D

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Errori

Frank goes to Morton's train and finds that dead bodies are scattered around. But the train's firem [...]	D
When Harmonica shoots Frank, Cheyenne cuts his right cheek just below his eye with a razor because [...]	D
In the stable scene, Harmonica says to Cheyenne, "I saw three of these dusters a short time ago. Th [...]	D
When Frank goes back to the train and finds the dead men strewn about, the smoke from the locomotiv [...]	D
In the opening scene. Harmonica is involved in a gunfight with three of Frank's men at the Cattle C [...]	D
Mr Morton's train must have a driver and a fireman. Morton also needs a housekeeper. It is unbeliev [...]	D
The shadows change direction between cuts throughout the gunfight scene between Frank and Harmonica [...]	D
As the speed of rotation of the wind-pump sails varies, the sound of the squeak does not. At no poi [...]	D
The porter asks Jill about her luggage and then offers to carry it for her, but his mouth never mov [...]	D
Jill's luggage is schlepped from the train - twice.	D
When Sam is taking Jill McBain to the ranch, they have to go through the construction site for the [...]	D
As Frank and his gang ride away from the train, tire tracks are visible in the dirt.	D
When the train carrying Harmonica pulls into the station at the start of the movie, one shot shows [...]	D
The train's box cars have four wheels, a rounded roof, and other features more akin to European rai [...]	D
At the very end of the movie, the camera pans back to show the complete scene of men working at the [...]	D
In the opening scene at the rail station, Woody Strode's character is shown to be carrying a cut do [...]	D
At the end of the story, the young Harmonica, who is holding his brother on his shoulders, has deci [...]	D
When Frank rides to meet Harmonica for the showdown, he is riding on a white horse, a minute later [...]	D
During the duel between Frank and Harmonica, Cheyenne shaves his beard (mostly his sideburns); howe [...]	D
A woman extra does a sloppy unnatural fall.	D
When Harmonica climbs down the ladder, only to meet Frank at the other end of a .45, the ladder is [...]	D
When Jill arrives at the station, she is one of many people leaving the train, and her baggage is c [...]	D
Spanish railways have a broader gauge (1,674 mm) than the American railways, which are mostly built [...]	D
During the final flashback ("Keep your lovin' brother happy") from shot to shot the harmonica chang [...]	D
When Cheyenne shoots the man who's guarding Harmonica through the train window, there is no blood o [...]	D
While preparing for the wedding feast, Brett's daughter sings a few lines of "Danny Boy". The words [...]	D
When Cheyenne's boot first appears outside the train window, it's the left one. The second time, it [...]	D
Right after Harmonica shoots Frank, Frank dies and his body goes limp with his head coming to rest [...]	D
After just being shot in the left shoulder, Harmonica is able to physically manhandle Wobbles in th [...]	D
When Harmonica arrives at the McBain ranch and plays his harmonica at night, he lights a match, whi [...]	D
At around 1:20 in the movie, when Frank is inside the train with Morton and the Mexican-looking man [...]	D
Near the beginning, Brett McBain is shooting birds, and Timmy (Brett's son) collects the birds and [...]	D
The train in the opening segment of the movie pulls into the station but does not take on either fu [...]	D
During The Man's flashback which explains how he came to possess the harmonica, the harmonica chang [...]	D
In the flashback scenes where Harmonica recalls being forced by Frank to play the mouth harp, the i [...]	D
During Harmonica's confrontation with Frank towards the end of the movie, his hair appears to have [...]	D
Brett McBain orders his daughter Maureen to cut the bread in thicker slices, because "they're throw [...]	D
On the DVD case, Sergio Leone is quoted as saying "All of the characters in the film, except Claudi [...]	D

Frase

Jill: I could swear we're going to have that str [...]	D
Cheyenne: Yeah, go on. Play, Harmonica. Play, so [...]	D
Frank: You've made a big mistake, Morton. When y [...]	D
Harmonica: When you hear a strange sound, drop t [...]	D
Frank: Is there anything in the world you wouldn [...]	D
Cheyenne: Hey, what in the hell are you standing [...]	D
Frank: What do you want? Who are ya? Harmonica: [...]	D
Cheyenne: By the way, you know anything about a [...]	D
Cheyenne's Lieutenant: Cheyenne. We thought we'd [...]	D
[Frank knocks Morton off of his crutches] Morto [...]	D
Cheyenne: Listen, Harmonica, a town built around [...]	D
Morton: I got on board within sight of the Atlan [...]	D
Harmonica: Now I gotta go. Gonna be a beautiful [...]	D
Cheyenne: They wanna hang me, the big black crow [...]	D
Harmonica: The reward for this man is 5000 dolla [...]	D
Frank: Who are you? Harmonica: Jim Cooper, Chuc [...]	D
Harmonica: I saw three of these dusters a short [...]	D
Morton: Not bad. Congratulations. Tell me, was i [...]	D
Morton: You'll never succeed in becoming like me [...]	D
Wobbles: You know you can trust me. Frank: Wobb [...]	D
Frank: Surprised to see me here? Harmonica: I k [...]	D
[first lines] Cattle Corner Station Agent: Hey. [...]	D
Cheyenne: Make believe it's nothing.	D
Barman: What can I do for you, ma'am? Jill: I w [...]	D
Frank: Morton once told me I could never be like [...]	D
Cheyenne: [drinking coffee] Good. My mother used [...]	D
Jill: You don't look at all like the noble defen [...]	D
Frank: [trying to convince Harmonica to sell him [...]	D
Harmonica: [facing three men] And Frank? Snaky: [...]	D
Morton: [to Wobbles] Hm. You should learn to liv [...]	D
Cheyenne: [about Harmonica] He not only plays. H [...]	D
Cheyenne: [to Jill] You know what? If I was you, [...]	D
Harmonica: [to Frank, spotting a gunman above a [...]	D
[Frank and his gang are standing in front of Tim [...]	D
Frank: Keep your lovin' brother happy.	D
Jill: [carrying around Brett's photograph] You w [...]	D
Wobbles: I'm mighty careful, Frank. No one could [...]	D
Frank: I'm beginning to think I might be a littl [...]	D
Cheyenne: You deserve better. Jill: The last ma [...]	D
Frank: Any normal man would put a bullet in his [...]	D
Cheyenne: [pointing his gun at Morton] Hey, you. [...]	D
Harmonica: Your friends have a high mortality ra [...]	D
Frank: You paid five thousand dollars for someth [...]	D
Jill: [stares at Harmonica from her window] Chey [...]	D
[Frank sits at Morton's desk] Morton: How does [...]	D
Cheyenne: If somebody had a mind to kill me, it [...]	D
Frank's lieutenant: [seeing Morton deal out 500 [...]	D
Frank: Frank: The future don't matter to us. Not [...]	D
Jill: Hey, you're sort of a handsome man. Cheye [...]	D
Cheyenne: You know, Jill, you remind me of my mo [...]	D
Harmonica: You know, Wobbles... I'm kind of mad [...]	D
Frank: Now I understand why they miss you so muc [...]	D
Cheyenne: You don't understand, Jill. People lik [...]	D
Jill: But... but they were his men. Harmonica: [...]	D
Harmonica: You're a remarkable woman. Jill: And [...]	D
Barman: And so, this cousin of mine keeps writin [...]	D
[last lines] Cheyenne: Hey, Harmonica, when the [...]	D
Cheyenne: You know, ma'am, when you've killed fo [...]	D
Cheyenne: Ma'am, it seems to me you ain't caught [...]	D
Cheyenne: What the hell is this? Harmonica: [of [...]	D
Barman: [to Jill] I can tell you're accustomed t [...]	D

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