It is a collection of powerful events that we live through a mysterious stranger with harmonica. This man tries to combine his forces with the infamous hopeless to protect a beautiful widow. It may be very difficult as this man tries to protect that woman from a ruthless rider working in the railways.
[Sergio] Leone creates a horseback epic of bad guys with a heart of gold and an iron engine that reshapes the landscape as its tracks are laid through the wilderness.
Gunslingers, one-road towns, horse and buggies... Once Upon a Time in the West has them all, and spread across a sprawling near three hour running time that is as punishing on the ol' rickety knees as it is rewarding to the eyes.
If only the first 10 minutes of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West still existed, this most hyperbolic of oat operas would still be acknowledged as one of the genre's greatest exhumations.
