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Product Name: Once Upon a Time in America [WS] [Special Edition] [2 Discs] [DVD] [1984]
UPC: 883929158300
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
CLASSIC GANGSTER PICTURE!
Wonderfully acted and directed! And the score is so beautiful... Cinema at its finest. The extended edition fills in all the plot holes from theatrical version, but this bluray edition comes with both director's cut and theatrical... so Enjoy!
Finally, the entire director's cut of this classic portrait of New York gangster life, with new footage not seen in other earlier versions. A vast panorama of the lives of a collection of NYC hoods, told in a non-linear fashion (that skips around from the '20s to the '70s) that is ultimately fascinating. Upon its first release, the studio couldn't make heads or tails of it, and, against the violent objections of the director, re-edited it in chronological form, leaving out a ton of detail in the process. It was a total disaster. After it was deemed a complete flop, Leone finally put it back the way it was meant to be seen, and a classic emerged. Phenomenal experience,
