Artist: Frank McCarthy
Condition: B+ *
Dimensions: 27 x 41.3 in. / 68.6 x 105 cm.
Circa: 1968
Linen Backed
* See Condition Grading section for further details
There poster was folded once vertically and twice horizontally as issued and there is restoration along the fold lines; there are some excess fold lines and restoration has been performed along them as well; some staple holes and losses in the white margins that has been restored but some of the defects remain somewhat noticeable; this gorgeous poster for one of the iconic Western movies should display beautifully once framed.
The cast of this movie alone stops the room: Cardinale, Fonda, Robards, Bronson. Portraits floating above smoke and gunfire with Ennio Morricone's score almost audible in the composition. The illustrated style is quintessential late-60s Hollywood, a mode that would be largely extinct within a decade.
Once Upon a Time in the West was initially cut by Paramount for American release and received coolly; it took European audiences and time to establish its reputation as perhaps the finest Western ever made.