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No. C'era una volta il West (English: Once Upon a Time in the West) is based on a screenplay by Italian film director Sergio Leone and screenwriter Sergio Donati. It is the first part of a Sergio Leone trilogy and is followed by A Fistful of Dynamite [Giù la testa] (1971) and Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
This sequence of the film seems to confuse many viewers. In summary, here is how this sequence plays out:- Frank is planning to have Jill auction off Sweetwater to his own gang in a rigged auction;- Cheyenne and Harmonica fake Cheyenne's arrest in order to pay for the land.- Cheyenne is taken by the Sheriff to the train station under guard. Two of Cheyenne's men buy a ticket on the same train ("Two tickets, amigo") to free him.- Morton has three of Frank's henchmen guarding him on his train, which has not moved since Cheyenne's rescue of Harmonica (this is how Cheyenne knows where to find Morton). He pays off the men to betray Frank, and sends one to Flagstone to pay the members of Frank's gang in the town while the other two remain with him. We see a shot of this man riding away from Morton's train.- While Frank tries to buy Sweetwater from Harmonica, Harmonica sees the man from the train arrive and chat with Frank's men, convincing them to join the ambush.- Frank's gang tries to ambush him, but with Harmonica's help, Frank shoots his way out of the trap and survives.- Off-screen, Cheyenne's gang frees him from the Sheriff's custody. Cheyenne forms his gang and attacks Morton's train. In the ensuing shootout, both gangs are decimated.- Cheyenne and Morton face off against each other in a duel, in which both men are mortally wounded.- Cheyenne rides off to Sweetwater, while Morton lives long enough for Frank to watch him die.
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