Suite (Once Upon a Time in the West)

Sergio Leone had the music written before shooting C'era una volta il West in 1968 and played it on set through loudspeakers, so the actors moved to it; several scenes were cut to the length of the cues rather than the other way round. Morricone gave each of the four principals a sound — a wordless soprano for the woman arriving from New Orleans, a harmonica for the man who carries one instead of a name, a banjo for the killer, an electric guitar for the bandit. The film failed in America in a shortened cut.