Warner Bros. released Once Upon a Time in America on June 1, 1984. Sergio Leone directed the film starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, and Elizabeth McGovern.
‘Once Upon a Time in America’ Plot Summary
Small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends grow up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side. Once Upon a Time in America follows them from the 1920s to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding.
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Warner Bros. released Once Upon a Time in America on June 1, 1984. Sergio Leone directed the film starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, and Elizabeth McGovern.
there’s great YouTube video on this film called “The Death of the American Gangster Film.” Made me view it in a different light.
Thanks so much for the recommendation, Eddie! That’s a VERY good documentary short. Funny how closely that short follows my narrative in our podcast and my overall view of gangster films. Must be my subconscious dislike for those kinds of films. 🙂