Plot: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Charles Bronson
star in this ode to the dying American frontier. A beautiful
widow receives help from a mysterious harmonica-playing
stranger after her family is brutally killed in a railroad
dispute.
Perks: Haunting harmonica music pierces every slooowly moving, operatic scene. This movie is languid and majestic,
with gorgeous panoramas and powerful close-ups. Spiked
with a few takes that are hard to stomach (like the
shooting down of children), the overall effect is that
of a mystical poem.