FilmTalk: Once Upon a Time in Italy

Professor Sir Christopher Frayling discusses Sergio Leone's massive gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984). It told of the rise and fall of a gang of Jewish hoodlums from the Lower East Side of New York, over a forty year time span. Leone was determined not to make a film about the usual Italian or Irish gangsters but instead to focus on a community which had more rarely been featured in Hollywood thrillers. When the film opened in America it was severely cut and opinions were sharply divided on whether it was convincing or not. This talk is part of the lecture series 'FilmTalk: The Jewish Villian', developed in partnership with the Leo Baeck Institute London.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am52233?id=EVENT424592