With an average rating of 4.5025 stars out of 5, this masterpiece by Sergio Leone is the best film made in the 1960s by AlloCiné viewers.
Directed in 1968 by Sergio Leone and released in France on August 27, 1969, Once Upon a Time in the West is with 4.5025 stars out of 5 the best film of the decade 1960-1969 according to AlloCiné viewers. A classic among western classics, it is one of its director’s greatest films.
Filmed after the “dollar trilogy” (For a Fistful of Dollars, And for a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Once Upon a Time in the West is no longer entirely an Italian film but also an American production, since the MGM studio participates in the financing.
We find in the cast Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale and Henry Fonda. The latter plays for the first time the role of a cruel assassin, shooting a child without any scruple to preserve his anonymity. At the time, the public was shocked, more accustomed to seeing him play positive characters.
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As in all their joint work, the music composed by Ennio Morricone harmonizes perfectly with the images of Leone, to the point that we will speak more of opera-western to designate their fruitful collaboration.
At the time of its release, this new western was a public triumph, bringing together 14.75 million cinema admissions in France alone in 1969, becoming the filmmaker’s biggest success in France. In the United States, on the other hand, the box office will be more mixed.
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On the other steps of the podium, we find The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by the same Sergio Leone (4.49 out of 5), Psychosis by Alfred Hitchcock (4.41 out of 5), Hara-Kiri by Masaki Kobayashi (4 ,37 out of 5) and The Truth by Henri-Georges Clouzot (4.35 out of 5).
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