That was the point, Director Sergio Leone wanted to shock audiences by having him shoot the child and zoom from the gun to his face and then all sudden you see Henry Fonda’s face and eyes as people only knew him as an every day man or hero not a sadistic killer.
remember when he murdered his wife by slicing her throat ear to ear in front of peter and jane ? that smile as he killed the boy was him remembering that moment and how he gave that knife to oj simpson to murder two more with it
I keep trying to settle on the best Western ever made. Tombstone or this. The score is chilling. The acting top notch. Tombstones line more memorable actually large portions of tombstone dialog has been committed to memory, this not do much, however "you brought two too many" classic line.
It says something about the artistry of Henry Fonda that he could so chillingly portray such a cold-blooded killer. And yet, there's that split second, before one of his men calls him by name, when you think, maybe, he'll let the boy live.
Dizzy N Frank murdered a child in cold blood. Angel eyes was after money just like Eastwood and Tuco and none of them were morally righteous . He wasn’t nearly as bad as Frank
Without a doubt the best work Henry Fonda ever did. I love the spaghetti westerns and I’ve seen a lot of them, but this has to be one of the best. Only other as I’m sure most of you know is the good, the bad and the ugly. Hard to be Mr. Eastwood.
@@M0butu No,not so. If you remember when Bronson and Frank are having a dialogue half way thru the film,Bronson says to Frank,"that was always your way Frank,leave evidence to convict someone else" Remember? Plus,at that point in the film,we don't know that.
Boy you guys said it. Sergio Leones filming technique of keying in on gazes,stares,expressions with little or no dialogue is a stroke of genius. Coupled with Ennio Morricone's epic musical scores makes this western the greatest Western of all time IMHO. That first scene sets the tone for the whole movie,doesn't it? Leones tradition of being "long on action",short on dialogue just flat put works. The first 10 times I watched this movie,each time watching,I picked up things I didn't notice before. As I understand it,this movie was not well received when it first came out. How great would it be to bring it back on the big screen with the sound? Considering the absolute CRAP coming out of Hollywood today,I think this SL film would be epic.
this is just not a film,this pitctur is a poem a magneficent art,you can see it so many time and steel love it,ah serjio what you did to our mind??i wondering what big western directors like john ford ,raul walsh and others great think about this jewel???
It came on cable as a feature one month. I try to catch ones I heard about and they're usually good. This might be the first film I watched straight through three times in one month. Seriously, get your sandwiches and drinks ready, put the phone on do-not-disturb. This one's too good to pause.
sergio leones dream cast, and just an amazing movie.. thanks youtube for putting an ad asking if i have an enlarged prostate immediately following fondas trigger pull really let me savor the moment
From a writer perspective this has got to be one of the best villain set ups ever. There’s hardly any dialogue and yet there’s some real emotion you feel when the McBain’s get blown away.
@@kathleenherschbach6822 Wow....geez,I didn't know that. With the genius and artistry of Ennio Morricone I'm sorry I didn't buy the LP when I had the chance.
In the german dub he says "Du sollst mich nicht beim Namen nennen." - "Don't call me by name", which has a slightly different meaning. I was surprised when I watched the english version for the first time because up to that point I thought he planned to kill the boy all along, but with the different wording from the english version it seems like he just might have let him live but his henchman sealed his fate.
I know this is an old comment so sorry! But there had to have been a reason for leone to not choose to do slow motion because it was around and even used in this movie
This was a defining role for Henry Fonda fun fact his agent didn't want him to take the part he thought the agent that is thought the role was to sadistic of ah role for him but Henry took it any. And the rest is history as they say.what a classic film.
2:18 - well, in case no one has ever seen a kid being hit so hard in the face by his dad for speaking out of place they had to replace the original sound with sound fx to soften the real sound... haha... I think.🤣 Gotta love the wild west.
Also the kid would have been an heir and he was there to make sure there were none. They didn't realize at that moment that the father had already re-married while away on a trip and therefore there was a spouse to inherit his property, which messed up all their plans to take the land for he railroad.
On the contrary, he needed a witness. They are wearing dusters so people would blame Cheyenne's gang who are known by those dusters. In the first scene of the film, Franck's men were wearing the same dusters to meet Harmonica at the train station and kill him.
Frank placed a gun on the kid in a deleted scene and then had the DA leak that the kid was a notorious truant and had stolen candy from the local general store.
@@MCFoultier Yeah that family was trying to steal land that the US government had stolen from the Indians and then the railroad had stolen from the US government. Frank was just helping to steal it back from what were obviously communists that would have tried to unionize the railroad workers when they arrived...lol.
@@wildbillharding id rather see the blood spattering in an immature way while the limbs fly all directions, then go and see the next Marvel or (sad to say) Star Wars film. But there is not much to discuss about personal preferences :)
@Albert Dibari Yes, but those people are REAL filmmakers, whereas Tarantino is just a dilettante. Apart from Jackie Brown, there isn't a single picture of his that I've liked.
Emmanuel Emmanuel Henry Fonda’s character Frank is a sadistic hired killer and his boss wanted to get the family off the land and the boss instructed his men to scare the family but they decided to kill the family.
You're outta line douche. Donald Trump inherited $40 million from his father Fred. Pres Trump turned that $40 mill into $10 billion. Think you could accomplish that Mr Potato Head? Your "boys" Dingle Barry and Xiden stole their money as politicians. Dingle was smarter,it took him 8 years to become a multi millionaire, where it took Xiden 47 years.
The camera moves around and Henry Fonda ...still gives chills
Henry Fonda, who so far had been typecasted as a good guy, kills a young boy about a minute in his first scene. Audiencies were shocked.
That was the point, Director Sergio Leone wanted to shock audiences by having him shoot the child and zoom from the gun to his face and then all sudden you see Henry Fonda’s face and eyes as people only knew him as an every day man or hero not a sadistic killer.
Jesus Christ! It's Henry Fonda!
David no kidding but if read about this movie fans who were used to Henry Fonda playing heroes were shocked to see him play a villain then.
When he took this role, he tried to convince them into brown contacts to fit the role. Back/forth all decided he's stay 'ol blue. Yes it's Henry.
remember when he murdered his wife by slicing her throat ear to ear in front of peter and jane ? that smile as he killed the boy was him remembering that moment and how he gave that knife to oj simpson to murder two more with it
One of the best villain/antogonist intros EVER!!!! 🙌🙌🙌
Utterly unforgettable how these men in brown trench coats slowly walk out of the desert + Ennio's score. A-MAZING.
I keep trying to settle on the best Western ever made. Tombstone or this. The score is chilling. The acting top notch. Tombstones line more memorable actually large portions of tombstone dialog has been committed to memory, this not do much, however "you brought two too many" classic line.
Which inspired Isaac Hayes to create Walk On
It says something about the artistry of Henry Fonda that he could so chillingly portray such a cold-blooded killer. And yet, there's that split second, before one of his men calls him by name, when you think, maybe, he'll let the boy live.
Fonda Rules. As the greatest western bad guy like no other !!
Angel eyes was pretty bad.
Dizzy N Frank murdered a child in cold blood. Angel eyes was after money just like Eastwood and Tuco and none of them were morally righteous . He wasn’t nearly as bad as Frank
Tigrero from Il Grande Silenzio says hello.
Without a doubt the best work Henry Fonda ever did. I love the spaghetti westerns and I’ve seen a lot of them, but this has to be one of the best. Only other as I’m sure most of you know is the good, the bad and the ugly. Hard to be Mr. Eastwood.
Frank already left one little boy alive with a harmonica in his mouth. He wasn't about to make that mistake again.
He didn´t knew though
Nah, the kid would have been the heir to the lands, that's why
It was his plan to leave a witness. Thats why they were wearing the dusters of Coyotes gang, to blame it on them. It's explained later.
@@M0butu No,not so.
If you remember when Bronson and Frank are having a dialogue half way thru the film,Bronson says to Frank,"that was always your way Frank,leave evidence to convict someone else"
Remember?
Plus,at that point in the film,we don't know that.
Also,it was Cheyennes (Jason Robards gang with the dusters,not Coyote.
Red haired Maureen also Apollonia (Michael's wife in Sicily) in the Godfather. First age 13 then four years later at 17.
Heart touching this scene is an art
Every scene in the movie is an art.
Boy you guys said it.
Sergio Leones filming technique of keying in on gazes,stares,expressions with little or no dialogue is a stroke of genius.
Coupled with Ennio Morricone's epic musical scores makes this western the greatest Western of all time IMHO.
That first scene sets the tone for the whole movie,doesn't it?
Leones tradition of being "long on action",short on dialogue just flat put works.
The first 10 times I watched this movie,each time watching,I picked up things I didn't notice before.
As I understand it,this movie was not well received when it first came out.
How great would it be to bring it back on the big screen with the sound?
Considering the absolute CRAP
coming out of Hollywood today,I think this SL film would be epic.
put>out
this is just not a film,this pitctur is a poem a magneficent art,you can see it so many time and steel love it,ah serjio what you did to our mind??i wondering what big western directors like john ford ,raul walsh and others great think about this jewel???
The fear on the lad, i all was felt sorry for him, good acting
When Leone and Morricone make a western, you know, it's gonna be epic.
Little kid acting is also very good
The house in this scene is now the ‘saloon’ in Mini Hollywood, Tabernas, Almeria.
Henry Fonda fue un gran acierto en el casting. Nada hubiera sido igual sin él. Una obra maestra de principio a fin.
Gran carisma siendo parco en palabras, por el guión de Leone
Un bonita tiempo que se fue con el 'Wind'.
Thanks, Ennio and Sergio
One is meaningless without the other
Good film this watched it loads of times I have
It came on cable as a feature one month. I try to catch ones I heard about and they're usually good. This might be the first film I watched straight through three times in one month. Seriously, get your sandwiches and drinks ready, put the phone on do-not-disturb. This one's too good to pause.
I watched this movie as a child at the cinema. And I want to watch it at the cinema again. Its one of the movies you have to watch on big screen.
You mean shmorgishborg. 🤣
That slap he gave his son hurt more than the bullet!
Soundwise, that was some Bud Spencer and Terence Hill slap quality.
...which makes it sorta comedic.
@@eadghe Fonda was in My Name is Nobody , Terence should slapped Fonda
His face is super intimidating.
The most villainous character I've EVER seen Henry Fonda portray. Sad story.😭
Cheer up! It's just a movie character portrayal. Won't destroy him in real life.
sergio leones dream cast, and just an amazing movie.. thanks youtube for putting an ad asking if i have an enlarged prostate immediately following fondas trigger pull really let me savor the moment
From a writer perspective this has got to be one of the best villain set ups ever. There’s hardly any dialogue and yet there’s some real emotion you feel when the McBain’s get blown away.
GREENY2112 there were only 15 pages of dialogue in entire movie
@@kathleenherschbach6822 Wow....geez,I didn't know that.
With the genius and artistry of Ennio Morricone I'm sorry I didn't buy the LP when I had the chance.
Thanks to Ennio and Sergio
One is meaningless without the other
Very much agreed.
In the german dub he says "Du sollst mich nicht beim Namen nennen." - "Don't call me by name", which has a slightly different meaning. I was surprised when I watched the english version for the first time because up to that point I thought he planned to kill the boy all along, but with the different wording from the english version it seems like he just might have let him live but his henchman sealed his fate.
Sergio leone fue un gran director ENN
enmnio morricone un gran director y todos los actores muy buenos clint iswof un gran artista
Long before there was badass slow-motion, dudes just walked really slow.
they were just so badass that the world waited for them
I know this is an old comment so sorry! But there had to have been a reason for leone to not choose to do slow motion because it was around and even used in this movie
@@CriTicOfsOrts yes young harmonica falls down in slow motion
Frank: "Well, if this was Conan the Barbarian I'd have him pushing a big wheel...but it ain't, now is it?!?!"
Even for a guy like me, that's cold.
A very sad part of the movie.
Thanks for upload! great movie
This was a defining role for Henry Fonda fun fact his agent didn't want him to take the part he thought the agent that is thought the role was to sadistic of ah role for him but Henry took it any. And the rest is history as they say.what a classic film.
6:03 Jesus Christ! That's Henry Fonda! ha ha his exact quote during an interview about staring in the film...
Dammit Patrick!!!
My grandmother cried at this, even ripped his Henry Fonda picture out of her room back in the day... so they said.
Work on your story, smh.
My friend's grandmother was so shocked by this scene, she ripped her Henry Fonda tattoo out of her left arm, with her bare teeth.
2:18 - well, in case no one has ever seen a kid being hit so hard in the face by his dad for speaking out of place they had to replace the original sound with sound fx to soften the real sound... haha... I think.🤣 Gotta love the wild west.
I just realized that they are all gingers...how did they survive so long in the first place, in a hot place like that?
FYI. This scene, Fonda do LOL because the little boy said, that's Henry Fonda. He forgot the acting job and turn as a fan. LOL.
Efren Cuadro lol Were we suppose to understand a word you wrote? Because it made zero sense. Can you please explain what you were trying to say?
Another big movie from director sergio leon
god the italian westerns were a hoot
COLD !!
Prof Lupin rocking that sundress
That was just an excuse.
No way Frank would let any witness live...he would have created an excuse at some point to kill the kid.
Also the kid would have been an heir and he was there to make sure there were none. They didn't realize at that moment that the father had already re-married while away on a trip and therefore there was a spouse to inherit his property, which messed up all their plans to take the land for he railroad.
On the contrary, he needed a witness. They are wearing dusters so people would blame Cheyenne's gang who are known by those dusters. In the first scene of the film, Franck's men were wearing the same dusters to meet Harmonica at the train station and kill him.
If you look closely, the little kid shot first
Georges Lucas tell it.
Frank placed a gun on the kid in a deleted scene and then had the DA leak that the kid was a notorious truant and had stolen candy from the local general store.
@@kentvesser9484 i remember it well. Tbh Frank was the good guy here
@@MCFoultier Yeah that family was trying to steal land that the US government had stolen from the Indians and then the railroad had stolen from the US government. Frank was just helping to steal it back from what were obviously communists that would have tried to unionize the railroad workers when they arrived...lol.
@@kentvesser9484 and besides that, I still think the Kid shot first
Buon cinema.👌 okay.
Quiz question: why does Morine get killed first?
Because the bread slices maybe.
@@hannesk2713 there's a better reason.
Because of her hair style?
To get the father out of cover.
Professional hit takes out in order of threat. Because she is standing right next to the double barrel gun, she is the greatest threat.
Frank got what he fuking deserved:
dave jenkins dead long time ago
Audiences walked out.
Please upload, download the full movie. The clear picture. Thank you
Lotsa gingers!
Now enter Clint Eastwood,who deals with Henry Fonda, and his Confederates.!
Wrong movie bro...
That was Lee Van Cleef in The good the bad and the ugly.
Lol
Compared to this Tarantino's films are mostly rubbish.
Compare em to something else then. In no regard are Tarentino's movies bad haha
They're not bad. They're verging on immaturity.
@@wildbillharding id rather see the blood spattering in an immature way while the limbs fly all directions, then go and see the next Marvel or (sad to say) Star Wars film.
But there is not much to discuss about personal preferences :)
@Albert Dibari Yes, but those people are REAL filmmakers, whereas Tarantino is just a dilettante. Apart from Jackie Brown, there isn't a single picture of his that I've liked.
@@hubertvancalenbergh9022 I tend to agree.Jackie Brown was quite good.
But why did they killed the whole family.
They was in the way of [cough!] progress!
The Railroad (for who Fondas character worked for) needed the land. He was instructed to only scare them away. But took it upon himself to kill them.
Emmanuel Emmanuel Henry Fonda’s character Frank is a sadistic hired killer and his boss wanted to get the family off the land and the boss instructed his men to scare the family but they decided to kill the family.
I was about to tell you, but you know what? WATCH THE MOVIE, you won´t regret it
They was home.
This scene was copied by the India's biggest and landmark hit movie "SHOLAY"...
Ha ha ha.....!! You mean sholay copied from "once upon a time in West" ryt ...?
@@pravinhbk9213 I mean this scene....assassination of Takur's family...and villain's getup and some more scenes copied from For a Few Dollars More...
@@murthymedandraoa1234 What a shocker Indian cinema steals from other movies...That's all they do!!!
This movie is dedicated to Trump's family...
You're outta line douche.
Donald Trump inherited $40 million from his father Fred.
Pres Trump turned that $40 mill into $10 billion.
Think you could accomplish that Mr Potato Head?
Your "boys" Dingle Barry and Xiden stole their money as politicians.
Dingle was smarter,it took him 8 years to become a multi millionaire, where it took Xiden 47 years.
Psycho