The movies may not be getting bigger than ever, but the books on them most definitely are, starting with Christopher Frayling’s pleasantly massive “Once Upon a Time in the West: Shooting a Masterpiece.”

That Sergio Leone epic 1968 western may have been filmed in Monument Valley but, starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda and Jason Robards, it was nothing like a John Ford feature. Frayling, the world’s leading Leone expert, has amassed photographs, posters, production sketches and more, and Leone fan Quentin Tarantino has written the introduction to this impressive volume.

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