Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian: C'era una volta il West) is a 1968 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone forParamount Pictures. It stars Henry Fonda cast against type as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit, andClaudia Cardin.ale as a newly widowed homesteader with a past as a prostitute. The screenplay was written by Leone and Sergio Donati, from a story devised by Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and Ennio Morriconeprovided the film score

Charles Bronson (3 noviembre 1921 hasta 30 agosto 2003), nacido Charles Dennis Buchinsky , fue un actor estadounidense de Polonia  y Lituania  fondo. Protagonizó películas como Érase una vez en el Oeste , The Magnificent Seven , The Dirty Dozen , The Great Escape , Rider on the Rain , el mecánico y el Death Wish serie. Fue arrojado a menudo en el papel de un agente de policía , pistolero , o vigilante con frecuencia en las líneas de ORIENTACIÓN venganza. Durante su carrera, Bronson tuvo relaciones a largo plazo con los directores Michael Winner y J. Lee Thompson .

After directing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone decided to retire from westerns and desired to produce his film based on The Hoods, which eventually became Once Upon a Time in America. However, Leone accepted an offer from Paramount to use a budget to produce another Western film and access to Fonda. He recruited Bertolucci and Argento to devise the plot of the film in 1966, researching other Western films in the process. After Clint Eastwood turned down an offer to play the villain's nemesis, Bronson was offered the role. During production, Leone recruited Donati to rewrite the script due to concerns over time limitations.