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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790734200
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790734206
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 10, 2003
Running Time: 229 minutes
Sales Rank: 49916
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 1984
Editorial Review:
Description:
Robert De Niro and James Woods star in Sergio Leone's award winning epic about a ruthless criminal empire. The original director's version of a timeless movie masterpiece.
Amazon.com essential video:
This movie has a checkered history, having been chopped from its original 227-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its U.S. release. This longer edition benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an aging Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). On the other hand, it's almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. Still, it is notable for the contrast between Leone's elegiac take on the gangster film and his occasional explosive action, as well as for the mix of the stoic, inexpressive De Niro and the hyperactive James Woods as his lifelong friend and rival. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - GANGSTER EPIC
Once Upon a Time in America (Two-Disc Special Edition)
THE LEADING ACTOR IN SERGIO LEONE'S DREAMING EPIC IS NOT JAMES WOODS NOR IS IT ELIZABETH McGovern; NOR FOR ALL THE EXCELLENCE IN HIS PERFORMANCE, IS IT ROBERT de NIRO. THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE FILM IS 'TIME'! THE THEME IS ONE THAT HAS ALWAYS FASCINATED MR.LEONE. ONE COULD POINT TO SOME OF THE MORE OBVIOUS SYMBOLS IN HIS EARLIER FILMS LIKE THE HANDLESS CLOCKS THAT LITTER THE LANDSCAPE OF 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST' OR THE MUSICAL FOB ... Read More
Rating: - A hallmark production
I had no idea that a movie could be so interesting. It truly is an absorbing and well made movie. All of the characters are unforgettable. Thank you, Sergio Leone.
Rating: - Once Upon a Time in America
Great movie. It's quite long and takes a little time to get into it, but it's worth the time.
Rating: - A Great Gangster Movie
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
I've always felt that, with the exception of THE GODFATHER TRILOGY, Sergio Leone's epic is, by far, the best of the modern gangster films. Butchered by the distributors upon its initial release, the movie was later restored to its nearly 4-hour length and form. It is this extraordinary version that is available on DVD.
"I brought back the key to your clock," says aging hood Robert DeNiro to childhood friend, "Fat Moe" (Larry ... Read More
Rating: - Finest Film of the Past 25 Years
This is a great film -- in my view it is clearly the best film of the past 25 years. Leone's final cut, the one that played to international audiences, not the butchered format foisted on Americans, has been restored. Incidentally, I do recall going to an artsy neighborhood movie house in 1985 (they still existed back then) and seeing this precise cut. Too bad it was not the one that played on the first-run screens. It should have won best director, best film, and best score -- and DeNiro should have ... Read More
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