The ultimate "spaghetti western" was filmed on American locations by Sergio Leone, whose view of the West upsets all the clichés of the genre, undermines myth with brutality, and turns comforting stereotypes into haunting archetypes. For starters, Henry Fonda is cast as a very bad guy, a professional gun hired by the railroads who stops at nothing, even the slaughter of innocent children, in the name of progress. (The shadow of Vietnam lurks within this 1969 western.) Jason Robards' old-style "notorious outlaw" is certainly no match for Fonda's modern ruthlessness, while Charles Bronson's expressionless man-with-no-name is preoccupied with an ancient sadness. All of Leone's trademarks are here: the jarring close-ups, the weird background music, raw dialogue and quick, callous violence set against strikingly photographed landscapes. We present the restored, director's cut.