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* ''[[A FistfulofFistful of Dollars]]'' -- An inspired rip-off of ''[[Yojimbo]]'', which [[Recycled in Space|effectively transplanted]] [[Akira Kurosawa|Kurosawa]]'s [[Jidai Geki]] to [[The Wild West]] (and made [[Clint Eastwood]] a star)--which ''itself'' was actually an adaptation of [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s novel ''Red Harvest''. Together with the next two, it makes up the [[Dollars Trilogy|"Dollars" Trilogy]].

* ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' -- The [[Prequel]]. [[Gold Fever]], [[The American Civil War]], and an [[Ennio Morricone]] theme that has since become a [[Standard Snippet]]. Lee Van Cleef plays a completely different character.

* ''[[Once Upon a Time Inin Thethe West]]'' -- Leone's [[Deconstruction]] of the entire [[The Western|Western]] genre, including his own previous films. Best known among film buffs for its stroke-of-genius casting: Charles Bronson as another "man with no name," smoky Claudia Cardinale as the [[Western Characters|Determined Widow]] whose fortunes drive the plot, and Henry Fonda as [[Playing Against Type|one of the vilest villains ever]]. Best known to the rest of the world as the title that launched a thousand snowclones, including Tsui Hark's ''[[Once Upon a Time Inin China]]'', and [[Robert Rodriguez]]'s ''[[Once Upon a Time In Mexico]]''.

* ''[[Once Upon a Time Inin America]]'' -- Epic gangster movie set in New York during [[The Roaring Twenties]]. Follows the rise of four boys in the criminal underworld.

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