Once Upon a Time in America

In November, 1968, when Noodles visits the locker in the station and pulls out a wad of US Currency, the top bill is signed by W.

Michael Blumenthal, President Carter's Secretary of the Treasury from January 23, 1977, to August 4, 1979.

When Fat Moe gives Noodles the locker key, he opens the door of the clock.

The key for winding up the clock is in place.

After a quick cut to Noodles, the key is gone.

Chief Aiello wears Captains insignia, not police chiefs rank.

When Deborah's train leaves for Hollywood, a French railroad car (SNCF) is on a track in the background.

Above the French car, a sign can be seen saying "Voie 13", which is French for Track 13, indicating this scene was shot at a French railway station.

A 1950s New York housing project is visible when Bugsy shoots Dominic in the early 1920s.

The Plymouth Valiant Duster was not available until 1970.

The scenes at the Miami hotel show the sun setting over the water.

Miami is on the Atlantic coast, so the sun should set over land.

The scene was shot at St.

Petersburg beach, on the Gulf coast.

Noodles watches a 1967 telecast concerning the investigation revolving around Chairman Bailey (on a decidedly European-looking television set).

Twice during the telecast, we see a cameraman with a portable video camera and an assistant with a portable videotape recorder.

The very first Electronic News Gathering (ENG) equipment wasn't available in the US until at least 1971.

Container cargo cranes are visible when the boys are waiting to for the crates of booze to float to the surface.

Containerized cargo was not used until the middle 1950s.

In 1968, Noodles rents a 1962 Pontiac, which is far too old to be in a rental fleet.

When Deborah removes her theatrical make-up, her hands get covered a mix of greasepaint and make-up remover.

When she says "I thought you might know why"- "Me? Why me?" they're clean.

The boys first put money in a locker at the Lackawana Terminal in Hoboken, NJ.

When they come out into the street, they are at the base of the Manhattan Bridge in Dumbo, Brooklyn, some distance away.

When the cargo floats to the surface in the scene in the harbor, the crates are floating with the balloons out and on top of the water, offering no extra buoyancy, and therefore not needed.

When Max and Noodles are on the beach, Noodles' girlfriend lays a newspaper across his face.

When the wind blows, you can see duplicate pages, revealing that it's a fake newspaper.

In 1968, Noodles returns to the train station and opens a briefcase full of money.

As he gets set to close the briefcase, we hear the chug-chug of a steam locomotive starting up in the background, then a steam whistle sounds.

New York City banned steam locomotives in 1860.

In the US, most steam engines were replaced with diesel locomotives by 1958.

Just before the boys demonstrate the salt trick to the Italians, fluorescent lighting is visible inside the large buildings in the background.

Flourescent lights weren't commercially available until the 1940's.

In the scene at Miami Beach which takes place in 1933, beach goers are seen playing with beach balls.

The beach ball was not invented until 1938.

In the very first scene, when the woman is shot, her shirt is covered in blood.

When she is shot again, even more blood stains her shirt, but when she falls back, her shirt is completely free of blood.

When Noodle stabs Bugsy they are on the left side of the Manhattan bridge.

But when the police are coming, the whole scene is moved to the right side of the bridge.

During the Famous scene where the young boys are crossing the street with the Manhattan bridge in the background, the building on the right has a visible window air conditioner, something that was not available until 1932.

During the scene when the young boys set the newspaper stand on fire, they run around the corner and peek through a window in the concrete which has visible spray painted graffiti on the wall, spray paint was not invented until 1949, this scene takes place in the 1920s.

Early, when the guy is being beaten, the thugs shoot the punching bag next to his head to scare him - the shot is fired with a semiautomatic pistol with a silencer.

The thug then puts the silencer in the guy's mouth and cocks the hammer of the pistol - since it is a semiautomatic, the hammer should have already been cocked.

In the credits, the song Yesterday is "Used by permission Norther Songs Ltd.

" where it should say "Northern Songs Ltd.

" (including the second 'n' in Northern).

When we see Max walk toward the garbage truck and supposedly get into the back to be ground up and killed, you can see the actor's feet running alongside the truck (by the rear wheel) as it starts to move.

In the iconic shot of the Brooklyn Bridge between the two buildings, a modern streetlight is visible by the base of the bridge.

I couldn't fully understand this movie when I watched it before. Too much content in the movie made me unable to digest it all at once.

Before I get to talking about the film overall, I think I should point out to anyone who wants to see "Once Upon a Time in America" that it is a very graphic movie. While it's rated R, it's a 'hard R'--and I could almost see it getting an NC-17 if shown today--especially when much more benign films like "A Dirty Shame" was recently given the NC-17 distinction.

This is real movie-making ... impressive in any way ...

First I'm gonna say that i've seen this movie completely 3 times , at different ages and i gave it different marks every time. By now,i can tell u i've seen plenty of good movies but this one stands ahead of all of them.

I was really surprised to read so many negative comments about "Once Upon A Time In America" here on IMDb. After a deeper look though, it is evident that these "unsatisfied customers" are mostly looking for straight-forward entertainment, fast-paced action and possibly a scripts that does not require any critical thinking ability nor any particular familiarity with poetry.

I've seen this movie like 7 times, and each i time i see it i engage myself with it, making difficult to stop watching it, despite the fact that is 3:40. Noodles is, in my opinion, one of the best characters ever made in films, and one of the most mature.

I will firstly say i had never read the book or whatever it was prior to seeing this movie and i went to see it on the recommendation that it was a Top IMDB movie.I'm glad i had never seen anything like it before or after, i can honestly say that it is the worst film i have ever seen in my life and probably the worst i ever will see (and I have watched the Disney Star Wars films).

This guy raped women twice in the movie. One of them came back to join the crew and the other was a woman he'd loved for decades.

I am a huge fan of most of the films of Sergio Leone. I've never seen his gladiator movie (who has?