Once Upon a Time in the West

Brett McBain and his family are preparing to welcome Brett's wife Jill (Claudia Cardinale) into town when all of a sudden they are killed. A mysterious lone stranger (Charles Bronson) arrives and is looking for the man who killed Jill's family: Frank (Henry Fonda), a merciless gunfighter/assassin, who works for Mr. Morton and his railroad company. A bandit, Cheyenne (Jason Robards), joins forces with this stranger against Frank and at the same time they aid Jill. Why is the stranger after Frank?? What's the connection between them?

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie when Cheyenne is shaving, while Harmonica and Frank are having their shoot-out, he cuts himself at the sound of the gunshots. When Jill tells him that he is a handsome man the cut is gone. (02:22:25)

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Frank: What do you want? Who are ya?
Harmonica: Dave Jenkins.
Frank: Dave Jenkins is dead a long time ago.
Harmonica: Calder Benson.
Frank: What's your name? Benson's dead, too.
Harmonica: You ought to know, Frank, better than anyone. You killed 'em.

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Trivia: While Morton's private train plays a key role in the movie, and the train moves several times, the train's engineer and fireman are never shown, nor is any reference ever made to them.

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Question: At first it seemed Cheyenne didn't know harmonica man, but later in the movie they help one another once to get the $5,000 from Cheyenne's bounty. Then Cheyenne rescues harmonica man from the train. And finally Cheyenne didn't want harmonica man to see him die they were leaving together I just think they knew each other and this was planned?

Answer: They formed an alliance, Cheyenne wanted to know why he was being framed for the massacre of an entire family by Henry Fonda and Harmonica seemed to know everything.

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