# C'era una volta il West (1968)

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**Runtime**: 166 min
**Genres**: Drama, Western
**Directed by**: Sergio Leone
**Written by**: Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Dario Argento
**Starring**: Claude Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Paolo Stoppa

> *There were three men in her life. One to take her… one to love her —and one to kill her.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Harmonica meets The Good the Bad and the Ugly on a dust-choked railroad trestle. A widow steps off a stagecoach into a hardscrabble frontier town and inherits a land grab war. The score’s whistling becomes the town’s last heartbeat.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, epic, neon-soaked, slow-burn

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.5/10 (383734 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 82/100

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