The Long Riders
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Time Out says
Hill's film holds its head high in a distinguished company of movies about the Jesse James/Cole Younger gang, refusing to bother too much about historical facts or psychological motivation, instead serving up a potted commentary on the conventions of the genre itself. Concentrating on familiar rituals - the funeral, the hoe-down, the robbery (a stunning tour de force in slow motion) - Hill pays tribute to such directors as Ford, Hawks and Ray, emphasises the mythic aspects of the Western, and focuses on the subjects of kinship and the land (probably suggested by Scotsman Bill Bryden's screenplay). This last theme is emphasised by Hill's coup of casting real-life brothers as the members of the gang. A beautiful, laconic and unsentimental film.Author: GA
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UK release:
1980
Duration:
99 mins
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Pamela Reed, Harry Carey Jr, Nicholas and Christopher Guest, Dennis and Randy Quaid, James and Stacy Keach, Keith and Robert Carradine, David, James Remar
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Screenwriter:
James Keach, Stacy Keach Sr, Steven Philip Smith, Bill Bryden
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