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At the opening duel, Woody Strode carries a "Mare's Leg" firearm (Winchester Model 1892), in a tribu [...]	D
Unlike the Dollars trilogy, which were all solely shot in Spain, Sergio Leone travelled to the U.S. [...]	D
Spoilers: The character of "Harmonica" (Charles Bronson) in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) was [...]	D
Clocks are a recurring image, many simply painted, or incomplete, reflecting the theme of time noted [...]	D
The duster coats featured in the film became the must-have fashion items in its day. The French depa [...]	D
Al Mulock, who played one of the three gunmen in the opening sequence, committed suicide by jumping [...]	D
When Henry Fonda was trying to decide whether to be in this film, he asked his friend Eli Wallach, w [...]	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 piÃ¹ [...]	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 of his [...]	D
There is a deleted scene where Harmonica, following the opening shoot-out, was beaten up by the Sher [...]	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 (like [...]	D
The credits, concluding with director Sergio Leone, last over ten minutes into the start of the film [...]	D
Henry Fonda prepared for his role as the villain "Frank" by arriving in Italy with a pair of brown c [...]	D
In the opening scene, when Stony (Woody Strode) is under the water tank, water kept dripping onto th [...]	D
The saloon set seen when Jill talks with Harmonica after the auction was later used in "My Name is N [...]	D
John Carpenter, a huge fan of Sergio Leone and this film, had "Jill's Theme" by Ennio Morricone play [...]	D
Luana Strode: The Indian woman who flees from the train station in the opening sequence. She was the [...]	D
The McBain house was built of solid logs that remained following production of the Orson Welles' mov [...]	D
Body count: twenty-nine.	D
The main selling point to producers for the use of the Techniscope process was the savings in camera [...]	D
The central plot of a ruthless railroad baron murdering a landowner for their water, is borrowed fro [...]	D
The character name of "Brett McBain" was derived from two famous U.S. mystery writers, Brett Hallida [...]	D
Joyce Gordon (who did the dubbing for Claudia Cardinale, Mrs McBain) & Bernie Grant (who did the dub [...]	D
According to most people involved, Cheyenne had not been in Bernardo Bertolucci's and Dario Argento' [...]	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, Har [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years o [...]	D
The Flagstone set reportedly cost as much as the entire budget for Leone's Per un pugno di dollari ( [...]	D
Charles Bronson plays a harmonica in this film and also played a harmonica in Robert Aldrich's Vera [...]	D
Henry Fonda originally turned down the role of Frank. Director Sergio Leone flew to the United State [...]	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 at Ci [...]	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 time) [...]	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 in Ne [...]	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 coated Jac [...]	D
Ennio Morricone composed the musical score to the original screenplay by Sergio Leone and Bernardo B [...]	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 that Ja [...]	D
Of the four main cast members, Henry Fonda and Jason Robards are the only ones who don't share a sce [...]	D
The original treatment of the movie was written by Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, who were f [...]	D
In Germany the movie was released with the title "Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod" which translates to "P [...]	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), appe [...]	D
The final duel between Frank and Harmonica was shot almost exactly like the one in L'occhio caldo de [...]	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 to sch [...]	D
Sergio Leone liked to tell the story of a cinema in Paris where the film ran uninterrupted for two y [...]	D
At Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands, co-writer Dario Argento said it was him that cam [...]	D
Following the huge success of the Dollars trilogy, United Artists was prepared to finance Sergio Leo [...]	D
Co-writer Bernardo Bertolucci said in interviews that it was his idea to have a female character to [...]	D
The story was concocted between Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, and Bernardo Bertolucci over sessions a [...]	D
When Cheyenne tells Harmonica "When they do you in, pray it's someone who knows where to shoot," Har [...]	D
The film was dubbed into several languages following its completion, including Italian, English, Spa [...]	D
This is the only film in Sergio Leone's legacy in which the action revolves around a woman (Leone ha [...]	D
This is the second movie where Charles Bronson is a harmonica player. First was in the film Vera Cru [...]	D
Robert Ryan was offered the role of the Sheriff played by Keenan Wynn. Ryan initially accepted, but [...]	D
This was the first feature to involve Sergio Leone's newly formed company, Rafran, which was named a [...]	D
In a deleted scene, Frank gets a shave at a perfume shop. Henry Fonda sits in the same position he d [...]	D
The scene in which Morton bribes Frank's men to working for himself instead has two poignant aspects [...]	D
Co-writer Bernardo Bertolucci says on the film's DVD that when he first suggested to director Sergio [...]	D
The scene where Frank and his henchmen in dusters kill the McBain family is meant to signify the wea [...]	D
Claudia Cardinale's first day of filming was her nude love scene with Henry Fonda. This also marked [...]	D
There was some controversy over the casting of white actors Charles Bronson and Jason Robards as Mex [...]	D
Afraid of being typecast having made three spaghetti Westerns in a row with Sergio Leone, Clint East [...]	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 (1966 [...]	D
Sergio Leone originally offered the role of Harmonica to Clint Eastwood, but he turned it down, as h [...]	D
Sergio Leone originally wanted Sophia Loren to play Jill McBain, and Carlo Ponti, her husband, was w [...]	D
The original intent for the opening scene was to use music already composed by Ennio Morricone. Howe [...]	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 Max Fac [...]	D
For this film, Claudia Cardinale and Paolo Stoppa took the longest buggy ride in movie history. It b [...]	D

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