‘Once Upon a Time in the West’: An Italian Western

Perhaps director Sergio Leone’s most underrated, yet perhaps most substantive Western.

(L–R) Jill (Claudia Cardinale), Manuel “Cheyenne” Gutiérrez (Jason Robards), and Harmonica (Charles Bronson), in “Once Upon a Time in the West.” Paramount Pictures

PG-13 | 2h 45m | Western | 1962

When the American Civil War (1861–1865) ended, a tremendous economic boom saw multitudes of adventurers, settlers, and scurrilous opportunists moving out west to carve out a better and more prosperous life for themselves.