Tribute to Sergio Leone

On the occasion of Sergio Leone’s 90th birthday on January 3, 1929 and the 30th anniversary of his death on April 30, 1989, we are going to show all seven films he directed from THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES to ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA in their uncut and restored version.

"Sergio Leone is a singular figure among Italian filmmakers of the postwar era: his films grow in reputation year after year. Groundbreaking westerns such as his "Dollars" trilogy and the authoritative Once Upon a Time in the West have made Leone one of the most popular and influential directors in world cinema."
Christopher Frayling in "Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death"
Director
Sergio Leone
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonté, Wolfgang Lukschy, José Calvo, Sieghardt Rupp, Antonio Prieto, Margarita Lozano, Daniel Martín
Plot Outline

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

Director
Sergio Leone
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté, Mario Brega, Klaus Kinski, Luigi Pistilli, Aldo Sambrell, Benito Stefanelli, Luis Rodríguez
Plot Outline

Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.

Director
Sergio Leone
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli, Rada Rassimov, John Bartha, Livio Lorenzon, Antonio Casale
Plot Outline

While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

Director
Sergio Leone
Cast
James Coburn, Rod Steiger, Romolo Valli, Antoine Saint-John, Franco Graziosi, Rik Battaglia, David Warbeck, Vivienne Maya, Maria Monti
Plot Outline

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

Director
Sergio Leone
Cast
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Danny Aiello, Richard Bright
Plot Outline

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Director
Sergio Leone
Cast
Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado San Martín, Ángel Aranda, Mabel Karr, Mimmo Palmara, George Rigaud
Plot Outline

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.