The Long Riders (1980)
Country: US
Technical: col 99m
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: The Brothers Keach, Quaid and Carradine
Synopsis:
Three sets of outlaw brothers do battle with lawmen.
Review:
'The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid without as much mud' - a western in the same realistic tradition as many of that decade. The film struggles to sustain seven different characters when, given the pretensions to re-enactment, they cannot be presented with the mythic ellipsis of such as The Magnificent Seven or the anti-heroes of Peckinpah (whose films the shoot-ups most surely evoke). And the actors, however well assembled (brothers playing brothers), are simply not charismatic enough.
Country: US
Technical: col 99m
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: The Brothers Keach, Quaid and Carradine
Synopsis:
Three sets of outlaw brothers do battle with lawmen.
Review:
'The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid without as much mud' - a western in the same realistic tradition as many of that decade. The film struggles to sustain seven different characters when, given the pretensions to re-enactment, they cannot be presented with the mythic ellipsis of such as The Magnificent Seven or the anti-heroes of Peckinpah (whose films the shoot-ups most surely evoke). And the actors, however well assembled (brothers playing brothers), are simply not charismatic enough.
Country: US
Technical: col 99m
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: The Brothers Keach, Quaid and Carradine
Synopsis:
Three sets of outlaw brothers do battle with lawmen.
Review:
'The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid without as much mud' - a western in the same realistic tradition as many of that decade. The film struggles to sustain seven different characters when, given the pretensions to re-enactment, they cannot be presented with the mythic ellipsis of such as The Magnificent Seven or the anti-heroes of Peckinpah (whose films the shoot-ups most surely evoke). And the actors, however well assembled (brothers playing brothers), are simply not charismatic enough.