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Today's feature is "C'era una volta il west", my favorite spaghetti western of all time. Enjoy the film where Henry Fonda plays against type as perhaps the most sinister Western villain of all time while Charles Bronson plays the hero. Unforgettable Ennio Morricone music score. Also, Claudia Cardinale is quite beautiful as the widow.
1 posted on 07/13/2014 12:39:05 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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2 posted on 07/13/2014 12:41:05 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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I love Leone’s westerns.


3 posted on 07/13/2014 12:42:23 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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That movie is not on my package but I did notice “The Man who Shot Liberty Valance” and “Bend Of The River” are both on tonight.


4 posted on 07/13/2014 12:47:10 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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Did you ever notice in all these spaghetti Westerns and those ludicrously made Italian Hercules movies when ever any characters are walking or running there seems to be a very audible scratching and scrapping noise of their feet? Is this some sound effect to suggest movement or something?


6 posted on 07/13/2014 12:52:04 PM PDT by jmacusa
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I was eleven. Saw it at a matinee with pals. I was the youngest in a tight-knit clan of five siblings, all older brothers I worshipped and would die for. The scene of Bronson as a kid ... man, that froze my guts. I agonized for days, grieving for his suffering.

Ah, the power of a good spaghetti Western! {^)

7 posted on 07/13/2014 12:52:23 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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The bit at the beginning by Jack Elam was outstanding!


9 posted on 07/13/2014 1:08:16 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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One of my all time favorite movies!

Charles Bronson does a great job in that role.....and Claudia Cardinale. Ooh La la!


10 posted on 07/13/2014 1:12:18 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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That was on Movies tv network last month

http://www.moviestvnetwork.com

http://www.get.tv

I saw Gilda last night


15 posted on 07/13/2014 1:49:41 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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Watched it on Youtube a couple weeks ago. One of my 30 favorite movies.


17 posted on 07/13/2014 2:40:38 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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Instead of trying to select the best western, including spaghetti western, I would instead select the 10 best westerns. In no order.

1) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
2) Once Upon A Time In The West.
3) Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood version).
4) The Great Silence (aka “the western in the snow”, an extremely harsh movie with alternate endings.)
5) A Fistful Of Dollars. An unauthorized remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961).
6) For A Few Dollars More.
7) High Noon.
8) The Searchers.
9) The Magnificent Seven. A remake of Akira Kurosawa’s film Seven Samurai.
10) The Wild Bunch.

Let me add some standouts.

Rancho Notorious (1952) Dir. Fritz Lang, starring Marlene Dietrich.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). Underrated, both the direction and acting are top notch.

Winchester ‘73 (1950).

Tombstone (1993).

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). Though taking place in the 1920s, and as much film noir as western, it still deserves recognition.


20 posted on 07/13/2014 4:51:59 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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I saw this on Netflix about a month back. Henry Fonda plays against type. I believe it is the last of the Spaghetti Westerns, certainly ranks as one of the best.


21 posted on 07/13/2014 7:26:59 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (‘You can avoid reality, but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’)
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Sergio Leone would have turned 90 today.


26 posted on 01/03/2019 9:00:23 AM PST by Borges
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Get the directors cut in “cinemascope” on DVD or Bluray. Youtube doesn’t do it justice.


27 posted on 01/03/2019 9:02:37 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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