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Bookmark this pageBite the Bullet (1975)
Director: Richard Brooks
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From Time Out Film Guide
A straining think-piece on Western/American morality and values, Brooks' would-be epic charts a 700-mile horse race as a simplistic graph of courage, caring and callousness, with Hackman and Coburn emerging as Professional-like pillars of integrity from a meltingly macho proving ground. Any random thought ever committed to paper about the intrinsic 'messages' of the Western genre here turns up as a line of speechifying dialogue: the result is a folly stultified by its own seriousness.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Brooks
Producer: Richard Brooks
Cast: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Stewart full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 131 mins
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