AKA C'era una volta il West. There Was Once the West.
"He knew someday or another that railroad through Flagstone would continue on west. So he looked over all this county here. Until he found this hunk of desert. Nobody wanted it! But he bought it."
The railway is heading west and needs to go through the McBain property, but McBain knowing the value of his land is unwilling to part with it. Up steps Frank (Henry Fonda), a ruthless man in the pay of the rail boss. Shortly after Frank 'negotiates' with Mr McBain and his family, his new bride Jill (Claudia Cardinale) arrives. Finding her husband dead and with nowhere to go, she decides to stay, much to the annoyance of the railroad. Help comes in the unlikely guise of a notorious desperado Cheyenne (Jason Robards) and Harmonica (Charles Bronson), a man with a grudge to settle with Frank.
A frontier epic, the ultimate western from a master of the genre.
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