The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
Country: US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew
Synopsis:
In the 1870s the county of Missouri moves to grant the railroad outlaws amnesty but the vote is blocked by a bribe from the Pinkerton detective agency. Meanwhile the James-Younger gang converge on the eponymous town to perform the biggest bank raid west of the Mississippi.
Review:
Rain-soaked realistic Western of the kind favoured in the early Seventies, better than most thanks to its mordant irony (the town's bank doesn't in fact have any money until the boys get there; it is the town posse, not Pinkerton and his professional gunmen, who hunt down and shoot the outlaws). It is slow but full of quirky touches, such as the steam organ outside the bank, the baseball game and Cole Younger's multi-perforated frame - a great turn from Robertson.
Country: US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew
Synopsis:
In the 1870s the county of Missouri moves to grant the railroad outlaws amnesty but the vote is blocked by a bribe from the Pinkerton detective agency. Meanwhile the James-Younger gang converge on the eponymous town to perform the biggest bank raid west of the Mississippi.
Review:
Rain-soaked realistic Western of the kind favoured in the early Seventies, better than most thanks to its mordant irony (the town's bank doesn't in fact have any money until the boys get there; it is the town posse, not Pinkerton and his professional gunmen, who hunt down and shoot the outlaws). It is slow but full of quirky touches, such as the steam organ outside the bank, the baseball game and Cole Younger's multi-perforated frame - a great turn from Robertson.
Country: US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew
Synopsis:
In the 1870s the county of Missouri moves to grant the railroad outlaws amnesty but the vote is blocked by a bribe from the Pinkerton detective agency. Meanwhile the James-Younger gang converge on the eponymous town to perform the biggest bank raid west of the Mississippi.
Review:
Rain-soaked realistic Western of the kind favoured in the early Seventies, better than most thanks to its mordant irony (the town's bank doesn't in fact have any money until the boys get there; it is the town posse, not Pinkerton and his professional gunmen, who hunt down and shoot the outlaws). It is slow but full of quirky touches, such as the steam organ outside the bank, the baseball game and Cole Younger's multi-perforated frame - a great turn from Robertson.