In Italy, a 175-minute director's cut features a yellow tint filter, and several scenes were augmented with additional material. This director's cut was available on home video until the early 2000s, and still airs on TV, but more recent home-video releases have used the international cut. The film features long, slow scenes with very little dialogue and little happening, broken by brief and sudden violence. Leone was far more interested in the rituals preceding violence than in the violence itself. The tone of the film is consistent with the arid semidesert in which the story unfolds, and imbues it with a feeling of realism that contrasts with the elaborately choreographed gunplay. Snow White's collapse after biting a poisoned apple is a visual reenactment of the scene from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains Nominees" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2018 . Retrieved 6 August 2016. Empire Magazine's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time". /Film. 5 October 2008. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. True Love's Kiss: Like all curses, Rumplestiltskin's curse of being the Dark One can be broken with a kiss of true love. Though since he rejected it the first time, this no longer applies to him. Ellison, Christine (9 May 2011). "The 100 Greatest Westerns of All Time". American Cowboy . Retrieved 4 March 2023.Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: Prince James, as a boy, was wearing a kid sized prince clothing replica from the animated film, while in Pleasure Island. The Comancheros (1961): The names "McBain" and "Sweetwater" may come from this film. Contrary to popular belief, the name of the town "Sweetwater" was not taken from Victor Sjöström's silent epic drama The Wind. Bernardo Bertolucci has stated that he looked at a map of the Southwestern United States, found the name of the town in Arizona, and decided to incorporate it into the film. However, both "Sweetwater" and a character named "McBain" appeared in The Comancheros, which Leone admired. [53]