Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Drama, Crime • 3h 49m
Overview
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: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, James Hayden, William Forsythe, Larry Rapp, Amy Ryder, Scott Schutzman Tiler, Rusty Jacobs, Jennifer Connelly, Brian Bloom, Adrian Curran, Mike Monetti, Noah Moazezi, James Russo, Darlanne Fluegel, Danny Aiello, Richard Bright, Frank Gio, Ray Dittrich, Mario Brega, Julie Cohen, Richard Foronjy, Olga Karlatos, Clem Caserta, Frank Sisto, Jerry Strivelli, Mike Gendel, Sandra Solberg, Margherita Pace, Paul Herman, Bruno Iannone, Bruno Bilotta, Angelo Florio, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Gerard Murphy, Dutch Miller, Robert Harper, Karen Shallo, Frankie Caserta, Joey Marzella, Marvin Scott, Ann Neville, Joey Faye, Linda Ipanema, Tandy Cronyn, Richard Zobel, Baxter Harris, Arnon Milchan, Marty Licata, Estelle Harris, Gerritt Debeer, Alexander Godfrey, Cliff Cudney, Paul Farentino, Bruce Bahrenburg, Mort Freeman, Massimo Liti, Jay Zeely, Salvatore Billa, Scott Coffey, Marco Stefanelli, Nunzio Giuliani, Nelson Camp, Dario Iori, Ole Jorgensen, Francesca Leone, Ron Nummi, Ryan Paris, Nicola Roberto, Gianni Sanjust, Alex Serra, Susan Spafford, Mark Frazer, Maria Pia Monicelli, Claudio Mancini, Rossana Canghiari
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12/24/2025
Best Video Release
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251 min cut: Italian Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether Italian's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
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251 min cut: Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether it's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
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251 min cut: Italian Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether Italian's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
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251 min cut: Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether it's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
12/22/2025
Best Video Release
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251 min cut: Italian Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether Italian's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with Italian as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and Italian doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s Vinegar Syndrome. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when Italian gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as Italian does some damage texturally.I compared Italian with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
To
251 min cut: Italian Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether Italian's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
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251 min cut: Italian Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether Italian's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with Italian as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and Italian doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s Vinegar Syndrome. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when Italian gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as Italian does some damage texturally.I compared Italian with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
To
251 min cut: Italian Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether Italian's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
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Extended edition adds scenes cut from the theatrical, but from a much lower quality source. It's intended to approximate the original cut, but to what extent that is true is debatable.US theatrical cut is infamously bad, was panned at release and never re-released on home video.
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Extended edition adds scenes cut from the theatrical, but from a much lower quality source. It's intended to approximate the original cut, but to what extent that is true is debatable.US theatrical cut is infamously bad, was panned at release and never re-released on home video.
12/21/2025
Best Audio Release
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251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes)
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251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes, but original mono mix was never released on DVD/Blu-ray)
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251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes)
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251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes, but original mono mix was never released on DVD/Blu-ray)
12/21/2025
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251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes)
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251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes)
Additional Info
12/14/2025
Best English-Friendly Release
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251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italian subs in some parts
12/13/2025
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1080p Blu-ray
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UHD Blu-ray
12/13/2025
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251 min cut: Italian Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether Italian's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with Italian as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and Italian doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s Vinegar Syndrome. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when Italian gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as Italian does some damage texturally.I compared Italian with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
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251 min cut: Italian Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray
139 min cut: VHS?
Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether Italian's better than previous Blu-ray
Some definitely messed with Italian as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and Italian doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s Vinegar Syndrome. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when Italian gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as Italian does some damage texturally.I compared Italian with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.
10/15/2025
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10/15/2025
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(Eagle is working on a 4K version)
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Eagle UHD
10/11/2025
Best English-Friendly Release
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251 min cut: Fox BD. Eagle has forced Italian subs in some parts 229 min cut: Warner BD139 min cut: VHS?
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251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italian subs in some parts
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251 min cut: Fox BD. Eagle has forced Italian subs in some parts 229 min cut: Warner BD139 min cut: VHS?
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251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italian subs in some parts
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UHD is coming out soon 251 min cut: IT Eagle BD better encoding than Fox BD
229 min cut: Warner BD
139 min cut: VHS?
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https://www.blu-ray.com/Once-Upon-a-Time-in-America/22358/
12/15/2024
12/15/2024
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UHD is coming out soon 251 min cut: IT Eagle BD better encoding than Fox BD 229 min cut: Warner BD 139 min cut: VHS?
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UHD is coming out soon 251 min cut: IT Eagle BD better encoding than Fox BD
229 min cut: Warner BD
139 min cut: VHS?
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UHD is coming out soon 251 min cut: IT Eagle BD better encoding than Fox BD 229 min cut: Warner BD 139 min cut: VHS?
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UHD is coming out soon 251 min cut: IT Eagle BD better encoding than Fox BD
229 min cut: Warner BD
139 min cut: VHS?
