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# Once Upon Time America

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## Description

Sergio Leone's original vision comes to life in this fully restored Extended Director's Cut. Twenty-two minutes of footage have been returned to this chronicle of brutal and passionate underworld history, deepening the characters and enlarging the work of its astonishing cast. Robert De Niro and James Woods play lifelong pals whose rise as crime kingpins unravels in death and corruption. Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams and Louise Fletcher (the latter three showcased in recovered scenes) also star. The added 22 minutes of extended scenes bring us closer to Leone's original vision of the film, but due to the limited availability of 35mm work prints, the new inserts could not be restored to the same quality as the rest of the film.

Review: If you're interested in the American gangster history. this is a great start. - A great Gangster movie. I love it.
Review: Poignant, Reflective Gangster Flick - This picture opened to mixed reviews. The studio quickly withdrew it from distribution and drastically cut its length. Thank heaven that this version is the original one, as the shortened one was a ham-fisted, muddled travesty Its pace is slow and it features some scenes which some might find extreme to the point of being exploitive. I weigh in on the side of those who find it to be the best of Leone's better-known films. The slow sections were handled the way they were because so much of the point of this movie is the sad, sometimes regretful reflections by the central figure on his history of lost opportunities and wrong-turns in life. One kind of moment, to be found in the show, is found in a scene you will not find in any U.S.-made gangster flick. This particular scene features a small boy who has spent all of his meager pocket money on a lush piece of pastry. He is taking it to a neighborhood girl who, it is known, will offer sexual favors in return for such offerings. Waiting for her on the stairs leading up to her apartment, he unexpectedly finds himself torn between two temptations. There is the anticipation of the gratification promised by the encounter with the girl but, right there before him, there is the cake, the chocolate icing, the sweet cream filling, the cherry on top. What will happen now if the girl keeps him waiting too long? This inventive plot device touchingly captures a vivid sense of life inside the mind of a young boy. This is a long movie, with a large and brilliant cast, and too many amazing moments to recount here. Expect the unusual, the contemplative, a deeply thoughtful quality recurring throughout this long and winding tale. It traces many decades in the lives of immigrant boys who decided that their only hope for advancement lay in crime. Watch its strange and elusive conclusion very closely. It can be a challenging picture. I found it wonderfully worth the effort required. Note the magnificent score by Ennio Morricone.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Contributor | Elizabeth McGovern, James Woods, James Woods & Shooter Jennings, Robert De Niro, Sergio Leone |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 5,129 Reviews |
| Format | Color, Director's Cut, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen |
| Genre | Action & Adventure, Drama |
| Language | English |
| Number Of Discs | 2 |

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Drama, Action & Adventure
- **Format:** Color, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, NTSC, Director's Cut
- **Contributor:** James Woods & Shooter Jennings, Robert De Niro, Sergio Leone, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern
- **Language:** English
- **Number Of Discs:** 1

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you're interested in the American gangster history. this is a great start.
*by P***R on January 14, 2026*

A great Gangster movie. I love it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Poignant, Reflective Gangster Flick
*by D***E on June 19, 2011*

This picture opened to mixed reviews. The studio quickly withdrew it from distribution and drastically cut its length. Thank heaven that this version is the original one, as the shortened one was a ham-fisted, muddled travesty Its pace is slow and it features some scenes which some might find extreme to the point of being exploitive. I weigh in on the side of those who find it to be the best of Leone's better-known films. The slow sections were handled the way they were because so much of the point of this movie is the sad, sometimes regretful reflections by the central figure on his history of lost opportunities and wrong-turns in life. One kind of moment, to be found in the show, is found in a scene you will not find in any U.S.-made gangster flick. This particular scene features a small boy who has spent all of his meager pocket money on a lush piece of pastry. He is taking it to a neighborhood girl who, it is known, will offer sexual favors in return for such offerings. Waiting for her on the stairs leading up to her apartment, he unexpectedly finds himself torn between two temptations. There is the anticipation of the gratification promised by the encounter with the girl but, right there before him, there is the cake, the chocolate icing, the sweet cream filling, the cherry on top. What will happen now if the girl keeps him waiting too long? This inventive plot device touchingly captures a vivid sense of life inside the mind of a young boy. This is a long movie, with a large and brilliant cast, and too many amazing moments to recount here. Expect the unusual, the contemplative, a deeply thoughtful quality recurring throughout this long and winding tale. It traces many decades in the lives of immigrant boys who decided that their only hope for advancement lay in crime. Watch its strange and elusive conclusion very closely. It can be a challenging picture. I found it wonderfully worth the effort required. Note the magnificent score by Ennio Morricone.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You have found the definitive story of America's gangsters, finally (almost) restored
*by J***Z on October 19, 2016*

THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE 2014 BLU-RAY/DVD COLLECTOR'S EDITION (I'm going to try and keep this brief, but it's almost impossible when talking about this film.) In 1984 Sergio Leone, master of the long-form story of American anti-heroes (and mostly through cowboys and gunslingers) set his sights high when adapting the 1952 gangster book "The Hoods" by Harry Grey for the screen. The result is long, drawn-out, meditative and grim, a delirious event onscreen which will either dazzle you or bore you if you don't have the patience to wade through it. A brief history: In 1984, after carefully crafting the film together as he saw it, it was ready to be screened (culled from the ten hours of the actual story on film). Originally envisioned as two three-hour films, he showed a 269-minute cut (with intermission) at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, which garnered over 15 minutes of a standing ovation. However, Warner Bros. (and their distributors The Ladd Company, who had mangled 'Blade Runner" only two years earlier) convinced him to squash all six hours down into a single 229-minute film. After carefully editing it down as best as he could, the distributors - WITHOUT LEONE'S INVOLVEMENT AND CONSENT - reshuffled and rearranged most of the scenes into an almost chronological order, which was not how the story in the book is told, and it now clocked in at a sterile 139 minutes! The film itself suffers for it immensely, with now missing scenes and plot points that would have made this much easier to understand simply if it was left alone. The result was a critical and commercial flop worldwide, although a few critics liked it. Both Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel were the one of the few lone champions of it, brutalizing the distributors for their chop job, having seen the 229 minute version at Cannes themselves, and Siskel put it on his Top Ten films of 1984. The fallout? Having been disillusioned and distraught by Hollywood, America in general, and it's decline in substance over style, it became the last film Leone ever directed. (In 2012 Martin Scorsese re-introduced Leone's 229 minute version to Cannes, and interest for this forgotten film was reignited. To this day he and Leone's children are still trying to gain back the rights to over 29 missing minutes of the film to show his almost complete 269 minute 1984 Cannes version.) The plot: So what is it about? It's all a delirious dream and memories (or maybe it isn't), but is filled with some of the best performances onscreen by Robert De Niro, Elizabeth McGovern, James Woods, Treat Williams, James Hayden, William Forsythe, Darlanne Fluegel and a cast of dozens, all trying to tell you, the viewer, a story lasting almost 50 years. I think that's all I can say because the plot is simple, but the story envelops you! You have to watch it for yourself, as it rivals "The Godfather" as one of the best gangster films ever made... that you've never seen, even in it's chopped up form. If you've ever seen the previously released 139 minute "theatrical version" on DVD, it can be confusing without mulitple viewings (like I have done over the years). Entire subplots are ripped out, and all we have left are some great bang-bangs and some sexy moments, but the subtlety of the story itself is pretty much 75% gone. When it was finally released in 2002/3 a a "Special Edition" and as a "Director's Cut," restoring it to Leone's 229 minute post-Cannes cut, it was revelatory, and those of us who truly valued this film (such as myself) were finally able to see Leone's version as he wanted to show it in theaters, complete with an intermission - try that nowadays! Now here it is, almost a decade after the 2002/3 release, and we have been given the best possible version to what Leone wanted to show, as much more scenes (but not even close to all) have been reintroduced and reshaped using his original notes. It comes in at a staggering 251 minute version (just a little over 4 hours), with the intermision. Now for the physical details: This version, that I bought here on Amazon, is the collectible Blu-Ray/DVD version, with both the 229 minute cut and the 251 minute cut available on 1 Blu-Ray disc and two DVDs (the former "Collector's Edition" from 2002/3). There's an amazing amount of new information included here, a 32-page color hardcover book with photos and production info not found almost anywhere else, but some of the same commentaries, documentaries and trailers found on the Collector's Edition, which is fine. As to the technical end: The Blu-Ray looks great onscreen, the colors are even, and even though the Italian restoring companies did a great job, it's obvious to see the lost or new scenes when it comes on - they look a little washed out, but it's to be expected considering it was from throwaway negatives, and not the original film elements. Despite that, the film's story, as envisioned by one of the great directors in our lifetime of all things Americana, is a major step forward to being complete and worth the 4 hour watch. I give it, and the restoration, and the package overall, a mighty 5 stars. Warner Home Video, who didn't help much to rescue it back when it was first released by the Ladd Company (the resulting flop almost bankrupted Ladd, just as they were recovering two years earlier when they took "Blade Runner" and screwed that all up too), has finally delivered a package worth holding on to! You'll enjoy it, if you love the gangsters, the drama, and the story, told by one of the masters, and this should most definitely be in your collection! (Thanks for reading, please leave a thanks if you liked it, and then check out my other so-so reviews of other items for sale here on Amazon.)

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