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Originally Posted by JoshuaKaitlyn  Definitely 'Once Upon a Time in the West' for me its another picture where almost every frame is perfect much like '2001 A Space Odyssey'. When Fonda and his gang appear out of the brush with their dust coats flapping in the wind together with the music and the camera panning around to reveal Fonda is just cinema at its best. The final shootout between Fonda and Bronson is another such moment. For me this is the greatest western ever produced. |
I really wouldn't like to choose between
Once Upon a Time in The West and
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as to Leone's best film.
Add
The Searchers (John Ford) to the two and you have the three best westerns ever.