Once Upon A Time In America (DVD)
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Once Upon A Time In America was Sergio Leone's last directorial effort and is considered by many to be his masterwork.
He directed some of best spaghetti westerns ever made (including The Good The Bad & The Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars) though this work, based on the book 'The Hoods' by Harry Grey, is a very different genre about New York's Jewish gangsters. It is an epic tale that is told in flashback from the viewpoint of David 'Noodles' Aaronson (Robert De Niro) in 1968. The story takes place in three time periods, during the early 1920s where we meet the main characters: Noodles (Scott Tiler), Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg (Brian Bloom), and Philip 'Cockeye' Stein (Adrian Curran). Even as children they are already minor criminals, rolling drunks and doing odd jobs for older mobsters. Circumstances bring them in to rivalry with Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz (Rusty Jacobs), but in short order they pool their efforts and expand their criminal activities under the leadership of Max and Noodles. When the youngest gang member is shot and killed by rival gang leader Bugsy (James Russo), Noodles retaliates by stabbing Bugsy to death, but in an uncontrollable rage also proceeds to knife a policeman who tries to apprehend him. He spends 9 years in prison. The story continues just before the end of prohibition in 1932 when Noodles is released. While he has been doing time, the three remaining gang members, Max (now played by James Woods), Patsy (James Hayden) and Cockeye (William Forsythe) have grown up but haven't left behind their criminal ways. Rather, they have been expanding their activities into alcohol running, prostitution, and paid acts of violence. Eventually their violent lifestyles catch up with them, with all the gang members being killed during a robbery, except for Noodles, who flees into hiding. In the third time period, 35 years after the deaths of his friends, Noodles returns to New York, after receiving an anonymous letter from someone who clearly knows who he is and where he has been despite his best efforts to hide his location and true identity.
EXTRA FEATURES
Audio Commentary
Featurette-Once Upon A Time: Sergio Leone
Gallery- Photographic Memories
Once Upon A Time In America (DVD)
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Once Upon A Time In America was Sergio Leone's last directorial effort and is considered by many to be his masterwork.
He directed some of best spaghetti westerns ever made (including The Good The Bad & The Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars) though this work, based on the book 'The Hoods' by Harry Grey, is a very different genre about New York's Jewish gangsters. It is an epic tale that is told in flashback from the viewpoint of David 'Noodles' Aaronson (Robert De Niro) in 1968. The story takes place in three time periods, during the early 1920s where we meet the main characters: Noodles (Scott Tiler), Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg (Brian Bloom), and Philip 'Cockeye' Stein (Adrian Curran). Even as children they are already minor criminals, rolling drunks and doing odd jobs for older mobsters. Circumstances bring them in to rivalry with Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz (Rusty Jacobs), but in short order they pool their efforts and expand their criminal activities under the leadership of Max and Noodles. When the youngest gang member is shot and killed by rival gang leader Bugsy (James Russo), Noodles retaliates by stabbing Bugsy to death, but in an uncontrollable rage also proceeds to knife a policeman who tries to apprehend him. He spends 9 years in prison. The story continues just before the end of prohibition in 1932 when Noodles is released. While he has been doing time, the three remaining gang members, Max (now played by James Woods), Patsy (James Hayden) and Cockeye (William Forsythe) have grown up but haven't left behind their criminal ways. Rather, they have been expanding their activities into alcohol running, prostitution, and paid acts of violence. Eventually their violent lifestyles catch up with them, with all the gang members being killed during a robbery, except for Noodles, who flees into hiding. In the third time period, 35 years after the deaths of his friends, Noodles returns to New York, after receiving an anonymous letter from someone who clearly knows who he is and where he has been despite his best efforts to hide his location and true identity.
EXTRA FEATURES
Audio Commentary
Featurette-Once Upon A Time: Sergio Leone
Gallery- Photographic Memories