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Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 · directed by Sergio Leone · 166 min · PG-13
26,277 feet · Prominence
196th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredThe 196th highest film on the mountain, and The Rewatchables has never done it.

How this film scores

Draw49

Lifetime worldwide gross $5m, re-releases included; about $51m in 2026 money.

Rank4,220 of 11,051In 196824 of 45

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise89

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics89 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy80

Judged directly: Morricone harmonica; peak-of-genre western.

Verdict80 of 100IMDb8.5 from 384kWikipedia58k views a monthAge58 years

On the listsNational Film RegistrySight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 130 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 49 praise 89 legacy 80averages 73, placing it at26,277 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Henry Fonda▲ Claudia Cardinale

In these careers — elevation for this film

Charles Bronson20,035 ftHenry Fonda19,848 ftJason Robards19,298 ftClaudia Cardinale18,635 ftGabriele Ferzetti18,162 ftKeenan Wynn17,636 ft