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Related: About this forumOn November 3, 1921, Charles Bronson was born.
Film actor Charles Bronson was #BornOnThisDay, Nov. 3, 1921.Remembered for his numerous film roles playing police officers, or vigilantes. In the early 1970s, he was the world's No. 1 box office attraction. Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he passed in 2003 (age 81).#RIP #BOTD
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Once Upon a Time in the West The opening sequence 1
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Waiting for the train The opening lengthy sequence.
1968 Italian/American film directed by Sergio Leone.
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Waiting for the train The opening lengthy sequence.
1968 Italian/American film directed by Sergio Leone.
Once Upon a Time in the West (1/8) Movie CLIP - Two Horses Too Many (1968) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Harmonica (Charles Bronson) gets dropped off at the train station with three assassins including Stony (Woody Strode) waiting for him. All three are gunned down by Harmonica in a shootout.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
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.
CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1968)
Cast: Charles Bronson, Jack Elam, Woody Strode
Director: Sergio Leone
Producers: Bino Cicogna, Fulvio Morsella
Screenwriters: Sergio Donati, Mickey Knox, Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone
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Movieclips
60M subscribers
9,645,938 views Oct 8, 2011
Once Upon a Time in the West movie clips: http://j.mp/1CM1JdN
BUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/t2Oxpn
Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr
CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Harmonica (Charles Bronson) gets dropped off at the train station with three assassins including Stony (Woody Strode) waiting for him. All three are gunned down by Harmonica in a shootout.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
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.
CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1968)
Cast: Charles Bronson, Jack Elam, Woody Strode
Director: Sergio Leone
Producers: Bino Cicogna, Fulvio Morsella
Screenwriters: Sergio Donati, Mickey Knox, Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone
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On November 3, 1921, Charles Bronson was born. (Original Post)
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Easterncedar
(3,519 posts)1. I loved him as Danny in The Great Escape
SheltieLover
(59,599 posts)2. He was one of my fav actors.
Ty for sharing!
twodogsbarking
(12,228 posts)3. He grew up very poor near Johnstown. His wife was gorgeous.
twodogsbarking
(12,228 posts)4. One more thing.
When Kurt Russell was a child actor, he gave his older co-star Charles Bronson a remote-controlled airplane for his birthday. Bronson took the gift and left the room without saying anything, which left Russell worried he had upset him.
Later, Bronson called Russell to his dressing room and told him, No one has ever given me a birthday gift before. Bronson was the son of poor immigrants and had worked in mines as a child. He was touched by Russell's gesture and gave Russell a skateboard for his birthday. The two men remained lifelong friends.
Deuxcents
(19,694 posts)5. Love this story.
Once Upon a Time in the West is the best western ever, imo. He was so good in it..those eyes! The whole cast was amazing and a good old western story.