TITLE...........: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) STARS...........: Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson DIRECTOR........: Sergio Leone WRITERS.........: Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone GENRE...........: Western, Drama METASCORE.......: 82 TOMATOMETER.....: 96 IMDB SCORE......: 8.5 IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116 RUNTIME.........: 2h 45mn SIZE............: 15.9 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L5) with HDR10/Dolby Vision BITRATE.........: 12000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 3840x1636 ASPECT RATIO....: 2.35:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO1..........: English Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 1024kbps AUDIO2..........: English Dolby Digital 2.0 224kbps AUDIO3..........: Commentary by Jay Jennings and Spaghettiologist Tom Betts AUDIO4..........: Commentary by various directors, historians and actors AUDIO5..........: French AC3 2.0 [External] AUDIO6..........: German AC3 2.0 [External] AUDIO7..........: Japanese AC3 2.0 [External] AUDIO8..........: Spanish AC3 2.0 [External] SUBTITLES.......: ENG,ARA,BUL,CZE,DAN,DUT,FIN,FRE,GER,HEB,ITA,JPN,NOR,POL,POR, RUS,SLV,SPA,THA,TUR SOURCE..........: Paramount Presents UHD Blu-ray ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-05-16

In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on prime railroad land in Sweetwater, crippled railroad baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) hires killers, led by blue-eyed sadist Frank (Henry Fonda), who wipe out property owner Brett McBain (Frank Wolff) and his family. McBain's newly arrived bride, Jill (Claudia Cardinale), however, inherits it instead. Both outlaw Cheyenne (Jason Robards) and lethally mysterious Harmonica (Charles Bronson) take it upon themselves to look after Jill and thwart Frank's plans to seize her land. As alliances and betrayals mutate, it soon becomes clear that Harmonica wants to get Frank for another reason -- it has "something to do with death." As in his "Dollars" trilogy, Leone transforms the standard Western plot through the visual impact of widescreen landscapes and the figures therein. At its full length, Once Upon a Time in the West is Leone's operatic masterwork, worthy of its legend-making title.

Extras

• Commentary by author Jay Jennings and Spaghettiologist Tom Betts • Commentary by directors John Carpenter, John Milius, Bernardo Bertolucci, Alex Cox, film historians Sir Christopher Frayling, Dr. Sheldon Hall and actor Claudia Cardinale • Filmmaker Focus A Look Back with Leonard Maltin • An Opera of Violence • The Wages of Sin • Something to Do with Death • Railroad: Revolutionizing the West • Locations Then & Now • Production Gallery • Theatrical Trailer