Leone's operatic masterpiece was made for $5 million and runs 165 minutes, structured like a Wagnerian opera with each character assigned their own Ennio Morricone leitmotif. Henry Fonda's casting against type as the ice-cold killer Frank remains one of cinema's most shocking pieces of casting.

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