IMDb plot summary: A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, and Charles Bronson.
This is such a difficult movie for me to discuss, let alone rank and assign any sort of qualitative assessment to it. Because the fact is, this movie is good. It's beautifully shot and scored, and Henry Fonda as a villain is fascinating, but it's also almost a three-hour-long western, and between the long length and it being a genre I hate, I got incredibly bored with it. It's a very slow-moving three hours, too, it's lots of lingering shots taking their time. So even more than usual, the ranking here reflects my own personal feelings on it and not whether I think it's a good movie or not.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Once Upon a Time in the West < Away From Her
Once Upon a Time in the West > How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Once Upon a Time in the West > Crash
Once Upon a Time in the West > Monsters University
Once Upon a Time in the West > Hancock
Once Upon a Time in the West < The Paperboy
Once Upon a Time in the West > The Avengers
Once Upon a Time in the West > August: Osage County
Once Upon a Time in the West < The Asphalt Jungle
Once Upon a Time in the West < The Dresser
Once Upon a Time in the West < The Conversation
Once Upon a Time in the West < Gypsy (1962)
Final spot: #1507 out of 2901.
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