'Once Upon a Time in the West's Finale Takes It from Great to Perfect

“You brought two too many.” It only took five words to solidify Charles Bronson’s performance in Once Upon a Time in the West as one of the most remarkable of his career. Considered by many to be the epitome of the Western genre, Sergio Leone’s 1968 effort was a culmination of what the director had achieved in his "Dollars" trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). The man with no name, or in this case, a harmonica, pitted against an equally formidable adversary, Frank (Henry Fonda). The final battle between Bronson and Fonda is a multi-layered confrontation between good and evil.
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