Film · Paramount · 1968
Pass it on
Once Upon a Time in the West
50Watch it awake.
A widow, a railroad, and a man with a harmonica. The civilization on the way is a business.
The review
A widow comes west and finds the family she was joining already killed. A railroad baron wants the land because a train will need the water. A man with a harmonica and an outlaw are the other hands in a story that takes its time.
It is long and it is operatic. The thing coming is not a sunset. It is a company. Adults. The revenge is the engine, and the widow's claim is the part worth keeping. Do not put it on for the style alone and then talk through the reason the family is dead.
Journal
Keep Once Upon a Time in the West in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Searchers
63 instead of 50
The Searchers is still a western film, and it scores 63 instead of 50. What you gain is piety: His companion fears the search has become a wish to kill her.
The eight
- 6Industry
A railroad is being built. The land is wanted because the train will need water.
- 5Household
A family is murdered before the widow arrives. She is what is left of the claim.
- 3Piety
No creed. A harmonica and a grudge carry the hour.
- 6Courage
She stays on land someone powerful has already decided to clear.
- 5Republic
The public coming down the track is a company, not a town.
- 4Temperance
It is long on purpose. The violence is still the spectacle.
- 6Truth
The baron is not a dreamer. He wants the water, and the film says so.
- 5Stewardship
What the railroad will leave is a route. The family does not get to see it.
Where to watch
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