Posted on 06/28/2014 8:23:43 PM PDT by DemforBush
Opening scene and gunfight from the Leone classic Once Upon a Time in the West.
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Plus Woody Strode.
I stand corrected —
I have seen every great western ever made a couple of times and this is one of them.
You are sick.
Yes, and she was all for real. A woman from back before the days of subcutaneous falsies.
Them’s fightin words — let me get my harmonica and I’ll meet you behind the general store.
Henry Fonda and Terence Hill did a good move together. “My name is Nobody”. I liked all the Hill/Spencer westerns and even some of their others.
See post 18 and restate your position. No need to grovel.
Who’s grovelling??? It’s a western —
Yeah I've seen that one as well. Fonda's character of "Jack Beaureguard" in that one was a bit more likeable than "Frank" in "Once Upon a Time in the West", but that's still not saying a whole lot, and as for Henry Fonda the man, well, I've already given my two cents on that particular subject...
the infowarrior
Fonda wanted to have dark contact lenses, but Leone wouldn’t let him, thinking it was refreshing for a villain to have those crystal blue eyes. It really works, in my opinion.
I think Robards makes the movie. The one thing about this spaghetti Western that differed from the classic three from Leone is that there was so much of the female lead, the other three had so little love aspects it was very different from most Westerns.
Freegards
I watched the entire movie last night on youtube after seeing the link. I had never seen it. That Claudia is not only a knockout, but a really good actress in my opinion - just her facial expressions said a lot.
I did fast forward through many of the “walking scenes”. (Loooonnnnnnggggg dramatic walk across the street, etc.)
Yeah, the female lead was more than decent, it could have been a lot worse. She did a good job with all those long stylistic silent shots Leone loved to use.
Freegards
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