In 1968, David “Noodles” Aaronson returns to NYC, where he once had a career in the criminal underground. Most of his friends are gone, yet he feels his past is unresolved. The city makes him remember his childhood as a tough kid in a Jewish slum until his rise to bootlegger and then Mafia boss.

The final film by Sergio Leone finds the maestro audaciously and ambitiously going beyond his spaghetti western roots for a sprawling, multi-decade New York crime epic. Robert De Niro leads a production at once resplendent and gritty—a familiar setting given operatic majesty and force by Leone.