Once Upon a Time In America ****
(1984/Leone/US)
In 1968, a gangster returns to New York to remember his violent rise to power with three friends during Prohibition.
Intricate, vast, violent crime drama with a poetic feel of opera. Production values are high indeed, and the music is extraordinary.
Does for the Gangster genre what Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West did for the Western. A masterpiece.
Mick