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Shoot Out is a 1971 western film directed by Henry Hathaway.
It stars Gregory Peck and Patricia Quinn.
The film is adapted from Will James's 1930 novel, The Lone Cowboy.
The film was produced, directed, and written by the team that delivered
the Oscar-winning film True Grit.

This was the second-to-last of the 65 films directed by Hathaway.

Production
After filming I Walk the Line, Gregory Peck was looking for a successful film as a follow-up. Believing teaming with the director of True Grit, Henry Hathaway, along with the same producer (Hal B. Wallis) and screenwriter (Marguerite Roberts), would bring similar success, Peck started filming the project in 1970. As the film even followed a similar path - teaming a crusty gunfighter with a young girl for a companion - Peck deferred his usual salary for a percentage of the profits of the film. This allowed the production to come in on a tight budget of $1.19 million.

The film was shot on location in Santa Fe-Los Alamos area of New Mexico between October 12 and December 2, 1970. Production wrapped on December 16.

Release
Box office
The film was released in America on October 13, 1971. It was released in Sweden on August 16, 1971.

Critical reception
The film received negative reviews from a number of critics, especially in light of the blatant repetition of the formula seen in the earlier John Wayne film. Michael Kerbel from the Village Voice wrote that Shoot Out did have some semblance of True Grit, "'but the humor and charm are missing and what remains - a predictable revenge story - becomes tiresome.'"

Others remarked about the slump in Gregory Peck's career: Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "served 'mostly as a glum reminder of the inadequate use'" of the Hollywood star, while Paine Knickerbocker of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "'Peck, m'boy, what the hell are you doing here?'"

User Review

Ever hear of a Switzer, name of William Tell?
2 February 2012 | by Spikeopath (United Kingdom) Shoot Out is directed by Henry Hathaway and adapted to the screen by Marguerite Roberts from the novel The Lone Cowboy by Will James. It stars Gregory Peck, Patricia Quinn, Robert F. Lyons, Susan Tyrrell and Dawn Lyn. Music is by Dave Grusin and cinematography by Earl Rath. Plot has Peck playing Clay Lomax, who is out of prison after 7 years and seeking revenge on the partner who shot him in the back during a robbery. But Lomax soon finds he has company in the young child form of Decky Ortega (Lyn), who has been sent to him by his one time lover Teresa, sadly now deceased.

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It took a whack from critics of the day, and even now it only seems to have a handful of fans prepared to stand up and say they enjoy it very much. Shoot Out is not a great film, well actually the location work is certainly great, but it is a very rich and warm Western. The problems are hard to argue against, Peck is not adept at playing a vengeful bastard in his later years, the villains are of the near cackling pantomime kind, and a number of cheap money saving tactics are employed by an on the wane Hathaway. Yet the action hits the right notes, Peck's unfolding relationship with the adorable Lyn is heart warming, and the elder female characters-put upon prostitute desperately seeking a way out (Tyrrell)/plain Jane homemaker who drinks to forget her unfulfilled lot (Quinn)-are afforded intelligence in the writing. While some of the location photography, in Technicolor, is gorgeous as Earl Rath gets excellent value out of the New Mexico and California landscapes. And hey! There's even a cameo by the always awesome Arthur Hunnicutt.

I'm giving it a generous 7/10 because it's not deserving of the scorn poured on it elsewhere. If only for the central father/daughter relationship, the scenery and a neat flip-flop pay back scenario, this is recommended to Peck and Western fans. Just don't expect True Grit like some apparently did!

INFORMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary
Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 8 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hires three men to pay attention of Clay's steps. The things get complicated when Lomax, waiting to receive some money from his ex-lover, gets only the notice of her death and an 8 year old girl, sometimes very annoying, presumed to be his daughter.
Written by Michel Rudoy

Cast
Gregory Peck ... Clay Lomax
Patricia Quinn ... Juliana Farrell (as Pat Quinn)
Robert F. Lyons ... Bobby Jay Jones
Susan Tyrrell ... Alma
Jeff Corey ... Trooper
James Gregory ... Sam Foley
Rita Gam ... Emma
Dawn Lyn ... Decky Ortega
Pepe Serna ... Pepe
John Davis Chandler ... Skeeter (as John Chandler)
Paul Fix ... Brakeman
Arthur Hunnicutt ... Homer Page
Nicolas Beauvy ... Dutch Farrell
Willis Bouchey ... Stationmaster (uncredited)
and more...

Produced
Paul Nathan ... associate producer
Hal B. Wallis ... producer

Music
Dave Grusin

Cinematography
Earl Rath ... director of photography

Trivia
Final film of Willis Bouchey. His baritone voice was dubbed by an actor with a much higher voice.

Henry Hathaway lobbied for Ben Johnson to play the lead role.

Goofs
Anachronisms
When Clay first gets into town from Prison, you can see TV antennae on rooftops.

Audio/visual unsynchronised
During the wagon ride after campfire encounter, Lomax is riding out with the orphan girl and thunder can be heard briefly before next scene a little to soon before scene transition.

During the wagon ride after campfire encounter, Lomax is riding out with the orphan girl and thunder can be heard briefly before next scene a little too soon before scene transition.

Continuity
After Bobby Jay shoots Julianas grandmother's plates, he is holding his pistol in his right hand. Clay tells Bobby Jay that Pepe probably "cut out" on them. Bobby Jay is now holding his pistol in the left hand (no time to have shifted hands) and draws his second one with his now free right hand.

Miscellaneous
When Gregory Peck gives the little girl a bath in the pond, as she is struggling you can see the top band of underwear on her.

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations

Hot Creek, Inyo National Forest, California, USA
Cerrillos, New Mexico, USA
Chama, New Mexico, USA
Lake Crowley, California, USA
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
McGee Creek, Inyo National Forest, California, USA
Round Valley, California, USA
Sherwin Summit, Inyo National Forest, California, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Chato's Land is a 1972 western Technicolor film directed by
Michael Winner, starring
Charles Bronson and Jack Palance.
It falls more closely into the revisionist Western genre, which was at its height at the time.
The original screenplay was written by Gerry Wilson.

Reception
Critical response
When released Vincent Canby panned the film calling it a "...long, idiotic revenge Western...It was directed by Michael Winner in some lovely landscapes near Almeria, Spain. Just about everybody gets shot or knifed, and one man dies after Chato lassos him with a live rattlesnake."

TV Guide, echoing Canby, wrote, "A great cast is primarily wasted in this gory, below-average, and overlong film. The script could have been written for a silent film to fit with Bronson's traditional man-of-few-words image (in fact, more grunts and squint than words)...As usual Bronson must rely upon the conviction that there are viewers who find silence eloquent."

A more recent Film4 review was more positive observing that Chato's Land "...though no masterpiece, is an effective and frequently disturbing piece of filmmaking. A tough, cynical western with well-paced direction and a fine performance from Charles Bronson and the cast of vagabonds out to get him. A quality film from Michael Winner."

1970s political overtones
Film critic Graeme Clark discussed an often discussed contemporary political theme of the film when it was released in the early 1970s, writing, "There are those who view this film as an allegory of the United States' presence in Vietnam, which was contemporary to this storyline, but perhaps that is giving the filmmakers too much credit. Granted, there is the theme of the white men intruding on a land where they are frequently under fire, and ending up humiliated as a result, but when this was made it was not entirely clear that America would be on the losing side as the conflict may have been winding down, but was by no means over."[4]

Film4, is more assertive in their review, "The cruelty of the posse is well conveyed by an able (and supremely ugly)
group of actors headed up by Jack Palance and Simon Oakland. Some of their acts,
such as the brutal rape of Chato's squaw and the burning of an Indian village,
have an unpleasant edge which Winner does not shy away from.
Parallels with the contemporary situation in Vietnam can't have been lost on the original audience.

User Review

Fairly Good For A Winner Film
15 September 2003 | by Theo Robertson (Isle Of Bute , Scotland)CHATO`S LAND was shown alongside DEATH WISH on BBC1 tonight as a tribute to the late Charles Bronson . To be honest this isn`t much of a tribute down to the simple fact that Bronson has very little dialogue and only a few scenes in a film that concentrates more on the posse than their pray . A far better tribute would have been that Bronson movie that contains the classic line " Put down those melons "

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On its own merits CHATO`S LAND is a fairly entertaining and intelligent film featuring a ( White ) posse on the trail of an ( Apache ) fugitive . It`s one of those Vietnam allegories as seen in TOO LATE THE HERO , ULZANA`S RAID and THE CRAZIES . Don`t believe me ? , well check out the scenes with the Mexican being the surrogate South Vietnamese and Ezra Meade a metaphor for the anti war movement and just to hit the audience over the head with the point there`s a sequence of a village being burned to the ground

Michael Winner is hardly the greatest film maker who`s ever lived ( Check out the very obvious day for night filming ) but he does deserve some credit for casting someone who actually looks like an Indian in the title role and it`s not often you see a couple of Scottish characters in a western who give a very , very accurate description of rain soaked Greenock

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INFORMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary
After Pardon Chato, a mestizo, kills a US marshal in self-defense, a posse pursues him, but as the white volunteers advance deep in Indian territory they become more prey than hunters, leading to internal strife.
Written by KGF Vissers

Cast
Charles Bronson ... Pardon Chato
Jack Palance ... Capt. Quincey Whitmore
James Whitmore ... Joshua Everette
Simon Oakland ... Jubal Hooker
Ralph Waite ... Elias Hooker
Richard Jordan ... Earl Hooker
Victor French ... Martin Hall
Sonia Rangan ... Chato's woman
William Watson ... Harvey Lansing
Roddy McMillan ... Gavin Malechie
Paul Young ... Brady Logan
Raul Castro ... Mexican scout
Lee Patterson ... George Dunn
Roland Brand Roland Brand
Peter Dyneley ... Ezra Meade
Hugh McDermott ... Bartender
Celestino González ... (as Celestino Gonzalez)
Florencio Amarilla
Verna Harvey ... Shelby Hooker
Sally Adez ... Moira Logan
Clive Endersby ... Jacob Meade
Rebecca Wilson ... Edna Malechie
Luis Amarilla
Richard Basehart ... Nye Buell
and more...

Directed
Michael Winner

Writing Credits
Gerald Wilson

Produced
Michael Winner

Music
Jerry Fielding

Cinematography
Robert Paynter ... director of photography

Trivia
The Hooker ranch house and barn are the same as the McBain house and barn in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

This film is one of Charles Bronson's 70s westerns. His westerns made during the 1970s include Valdez the Halfbreed (1973), Red Sun (1971), Chato's Land (1972), From Noon Till Three (1976), Breakheart Pass (1975) and The White Buffalo (1977).

This is the first film out of six that Charles Bronson and Michael Winner made together.

Michael Winner had wanted Gene Hackman for the Jack Palance part

Charles Bronson speaks very little in this film, with only a few words of his dialogue being in English.

Goofs
Character error
When Joshua Everette leaves the gang to seek medical help for his brMemorable Quotes he shifts his reins with the bad arm and then uses the reins in the bad arm to whip his horse.

Continuity
As Captain Whitmore walks down the street in the opening sequence, the direction of his shadow changes from behind him and to his right to in front of him and to his left.

Revealing mistakes
Several times as the posse rides through the desert, the saguaro cacti props in the background can be seen jiggling and flapping their arms in the wind.

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations
Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía, Spain
Almería, Andalucía, Spain
Balsicas de Alfaro, Rioja, Almería, Andalucía, Spain (Meade's Ranch)
Cabo de Gata, Almería, Andalucía, Spain (Desert scenes)
Desierto de Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía, Spain (Chato's land)
Poblado Western 'Sergio Leone', Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía, Spain
Fort Bravo Cinema Studios, Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía, Spain (Town)

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Most moviegoers are attracted by the star, but backing that star are a myriad
of co-stars, support and character actors.

One of many, who only made a couple of movies with
Duke was Lucille Browne.

She made a rare appearance ,in an equally rare movie , broadcast on TV yesterday.
The movie was
Brand of Hate (1935) starring Duke friend Bob Steele.

A pretty corny affair, and not even in the same league as Duke's movies of the same year,
e.g. Texas Terror and Rainbow Valley (1935)
the two films Lucille Browne appeared with Duke.

Lucille always appeared cast as the sexual attraction to all villains and rogues alike,
until rescued by the likes of Duke or Bob Steele.

In these recent post-silent times, movies were still very staged and theatrical,
and it is amusing to see the harassed
Lucille Browne, floundring her arms and pulling hammy facial expressions,
as if saying 'Get off, go way,you scoundrel!!'

Dig a couple of films out of the collection, watch and have some fun!!

7th Cavalry is a 1956 American Technicolor Western film directed by
Joseph H. Lewis based on a story, "A Horse for Mrs. Custer," by Glendon Swarthout
set after the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Filmed in Mexico, the picture stars Randolph Scott and Barbara Hale.

Besides Randolph Scott,
look out for other Duke 'Pals'
Jay C. Flippen, Harry Carey Jr.
Leo Gordon, Denver Pyle, Russell Hicks

User Review

It plays a bit fast and loose with history, but it is entertaining.
26 January 2014 | by planktonrules (Bradenton, Florida)

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The film is not based 100% on real history--which is VERY typical of most westerns. Benson and his mission is entirely fictional. However, one thing that isn't is that some officers, rightfully, questioned the competence of General Custer. He was, according to most historians, an incompetent who made many serious blunders due to his own hubris. So, when the soldiers openly question his decisions that led to the battle, that is pretty much fact--despite Benson defending his commander's decisions."7th Cavalry" picks up just after General Custer and his command is wiped out at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Captain Benson (Randolph Scott) was away on personal leave, so he somehow missed out on the massacre. However, folks are looking for a scapegoat and folks second-guess Benson and brand him a coward. Not wanting to live with disgrace, he volunteers to do an insanely difficult duty--to go into Indian territory and bury the Cavalry's dead. Oddly, instead of taking competent soldiers, he takes the scum of the regiment--guys who DID survive due to their own cowardice. Can these guys somehow redeem themselves?

So is it any good? Well, I gave the film an 8. This is mostly because they acting is very nice and compared to other films of the genre from this age, it stands well above most due to very nice acting and an interesting what if scenario.

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INFORMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary
Returning to Fort Lincoln, Captain Benson learns of Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn. At the inquiry as Custer's Officers blame Custer for the defeat, Benson tries to defend him. But Benson was suspiciously absent at the time of the battle and is now despised by the troops. So when an order to retrieve the bodies from the battlefield arrives, Benson volunteers for the dangerous mission of returning back into Indian territory.
Written by Maurice VanAuken

Cast
Randolph Scott ... Capt. Tom Benson
Barbara Hale ... Martha Kellogg
Jay C. Flippen ... Sgt. Bates
Frank Faylen ... Sgt. Kruger
Jeanette Nolan ... Charlotte Reynolds
Leo Gordon ... Vogel
Denver Pyle ... Dixon
Harry Carey Jr. ... Cpl. Morrison
Michael Pate ... Capt. Benteen
Donald Curtis ... Lt. Bob Fitch
Frank Wilcox ... Maj. Reno
Pat Hogan ... Young Hawk
Russell Hicks ... Col. Kellogg
Peter Ortiz ... Pollock
and many more...

Directed
Joseph H. Lewis

Writing Credits
Peter Packer ... (screenplay)
Glendon Swarthout ... (based on a story by) (as Glendon F. Swarthout)

Produced
Harry Joe Brown ... producer
Randolph Scott ... associate producer

Music
Mischa Bakaleinikoff ... (uncredited)

Cinematography
Ray Rennahan ... director of photography

Trivia
Filmed in Mexico

Crazy Credits
Opening credits: Capt. Benson was returning with his future bride,
to his post commanded by the gallant Indian fighter Colonel Custer, who had prepared the famous 7th for all out war with the Sioux.

Goofs
Character error
After doing some online searching I found that Captain Tom Benson was a fictional character of what could've happened, surprised no one mention that.

Continuity
After killing the Indian ,Denver Pyle's trooper holsters his rifle twice .

At abt. 44m.,Scott knocks an Indian from his horse. As they are rolling on the ground, he (the stuntman) has his hat on securely. In the following action, he is hatless.

If you keep a close eye on Captain Benson (Randolph Scott) and soldier Vogel (Leo Gordon) during their fight, there's a brief moment when Vogel has a fresh looking face when only a second before and after it was sweat and dust covered.

Factual errors
As Corporal Morrison (Harry Carey Jr.) saddles "Dandy", LT Col Custer's second mount, he puts on an English saddle. US Calvary adopted "McClellan" saddles which remained in service through World War II. This was the wrong saddle for the movie.

When the troops present arms at the flag-raising at the beginning of the film, the soldier closest to the camera has a Remington Rolling-Block rifle, probably standing in for a Springfield Trapdoor carbine, with which the cavalry of 1876 was actually equipped. The Remington, though popular with the armies of many other nations, was never adopted in any form by the US military.

The flag lowered at the end of the movie has 35 stars in a rectangular 5x7 pattern. The Battle of Little Bighorn took place in 1876, when the US flag actually had 37 stars.

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations
Amecameca, Estado de México, Mexico

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Maverick is a 1994 American Western comedy film directed by
Richard Donner
and written by William Goldman, based on the 1950s television series of the same name created by Roy Huggins.
The film stars Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick, a card player and con artist
collecting money to enter a high-stakes poker game.
He is joined in his adventure by Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster),
another con artist, and lawman Marshall Zane Cooper (James Garner).
The supporting cast features Graham Greene, James Coburn, Alfred Molina
and a large number of cameo appearances by Western film actors, country music stars and other actors.

The film received a favorable critical reception for its light-hearted charm,
and was financially successful, earning over $180 million during its theatrical run.
Costume designer April Ferry was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

There are multiple cameo appearances in the film from Western actors,
people who have formerly worked with Donner, Gibson, Foster, or Garner,
and other celebrities including Danny Glover (uncredited),
Hal Ketchum and Corey Feldman as bank robbers; Read Morgan and Steve Kahan as card dealers;
Dub Taylor as a room clerk at the opening game;
Art LaFleur and Leo Gordon as poker players at Maverick's first game;
Paul Brinegar as the stagecoach driver;
Denver Pyle as a cheating old gambler;
Robert Fuller, Doug McClure, Henry Darrow, William Smith and Charles Dierkop
as riverboat poker players; Dan Hedaya as Twitchy, another Riverboat poker player;
William Marshall as a riverboat poker player defeated by Angel;
Dennis Fimple as Stuttering, a player beaten by the Commodore;
Bert Remsen as an elderly riverboat gambler beaten by Maverick;
and Margot Kidder as missionary Margaret Mary in an uncredited appearance.

Leo Gordon had played a semi-regular supporting character in seasons
one and two of the original Maverick TV show: gambler Big Mike McComb.
Gordon also later wrote a few episodes of the show.
Margot Kidder had been Garner's co-star in the short-lived western TV series Nichols.
Danny Glover's cameo appearance references Donner's Lethal Weapon film series
starring Glover and Gibson as cop partners.
Their meeting in Maverick sees them share a moment of recognition,
and as he leaves, Glover says Roger Murtaugh's catchphrase: "I'm getting too old for this shit."

Country singers also cameo including Carlene Carter as a waitress,
Waylon Jennings and Kathy Mattea
as a gambling couple with concealed guns,
Reba McEntire, Clint Black
as a sweet-faced gambler thrown overboard for cheating,
and
Vince Gill and his then-wife Janis Gill as spectators.

Production
The steamboat used in the film—dubbed the Lauren Belle—was the Portland, the last remaining sternwheel tugboat in the US; at the time it belonged to the Oregon Maritime Museum in Portland. Over several weeks, the boat was decorated to alter its appearance to resemble a Mississippi-style gambling boat, including the addition of two decorative chimneys.
In August 1993, the production requested permission to film scenes of the riverboat
along the Columbia River in Washington State.
The artificial smoke released by the boat's chimney was considered to violate air-quality laws in Washington and Oregon and required approval for the scenes before their scheduled filming date in September 1993.After filming concluded, the decorations were removed and the boat was returned to its original state.

In Five Screenplays with Essays, Goldman describes an earlier version of the script, in which Maverick explains he has a magic ability to call the card he needs out of the deck. Although he is not able to do so successfully, the old hermit he attempts to demonstrate it for tells him that he really does have the magic in him. This scene was shot with Linda Hunt playing the hermit but it was felt it did not work on the context of the rest of the movie and was cut.

Reception
The film has received generally favorable reviews. The film garnered a 67% approval rating from 52 critics – an average rating of 6 out of 10 – on the review-aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, which said, "It isn't terribly deep, but it's witty and undeniably charming, and the cast is obviously having fun."

James Berardinelli, from reelviews.net, gave the film three and a half stars out of four. He stated, "The strength of Maverick is the ease with which it switches from comedy to action, and back again....it's refreshing to find something that satisfies expectations." Reviewing it for the Chicago Sun-Times,
Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of a possible four, writing: "The first lighthearted, laugh-oriented family Western in a long time, and one of the nice things about it is, it doesn't feel the need to justify its existence. It acts like it's the most natural thing in the world to be a Western."

Box office
The film earned $101,631,272 (55.5%) in North America and $81,400,000 (44.5%) elsewhere for a worldwide total of $183,031,272. This gross made it the number 12 highest-grossing film in North America and the number 15 highest-grossing film worldwide of 1994. As of 2013, the film is the number 6 highest grossing Western film in North America

Pre-release tracking showed that the film would open strongly, During its opening weekend in North America, Maverick earned $17.2 million million from 2,537 theaters – an average of $6,798 per theater – ranking as the number 1 film of the weekend, and took a total of $41.8 million over its first two weeks of release.

The movie was a box office success as it grossed over $183 million worldwide.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack featured three chart singles: "Renegades, Rebels and Rogues" by Tracy Lawrence,
"A Good Run of Bad Luck" by Clint Black (which also appeared on his album No Time to Kill),
and "Something Already Gone" by Carlene Carter.
Also included on the album was an all-star rendition of "Amazing Grace",
from which all royalties were donated to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

User Review

Simply brilliant
7 September 2001 | by Stephen Hitchings (Sydney, Austra

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This is one of those rare movies you can watch over and over again without getting tired of it. Forget what some people have said about Jodie Foster, she is absolutely perfect as the apparently-dumb-but-smarter-than-she-looks blonde, and the chemistry between her and Mel Gibson is superb. Also perfect are James Garner as the marshal, Graham Greene as the harassed native chief, and Alfred Molina (the Englishman who is so good as an Iranian in Not Without My Daughter and a Cuban in The Perez family) as the "Spaniard". The writing is simply brilliant, one of William Goldman's best - how anyone could describe it as "virtually plotless" just staggers the imagination. The direction and cinematography are superb. A special treat is the Lethal Weapon reprise with Danny Glover.

The Desperate Trail is a 1994 American western film written and directed by
P. J. Pesce and starring Sam Elliott, Craig Sheffer and Linda Fiorentino.

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A Western 'Noir' That's A Bit Different
24 December 2006 | by ccthemovieman-1 (United States)

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This western starts out very well, then gets too Rambo-ish, meaning the bad guys can't hit the side of a barn with their shots. Despite that credibility problem, it's a pretty good film with excellent sound, nice cinematography, some interesting special-effects and sound with the gunshots and wounds and a different kind of soundtrack. I needed the TV Guardian with this because there is an excessive amount of Lord's name in vain in here.

INFORMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary
After years of suffering under her beating husband, Sarah decides to no longer take any humiliation or battery - and kills him. For that, Marshal Speakes - her father in law - sentences her to the Gallows. During a failed hold-up on the coach she escapes - but Jack Cooper manages to snatch away the transported $2500 from her, which she would have needed to start a new life. So she follows him to get it back. Soon they have to team up against the Marshal, who wants her dead so badly, he doesn't mind breaking the law himself...
Written by Tom Zoerner

Cast
Sam Elliott ... Marshall Bill Speakes
Craig Sheffer ... Jack Cooper
Linda Fiorentino ... Sarah O'Rourke
Frank Whaley ... Walter Cooper
John Furlong ... Zeb Hollister
Robin Westphal ... Mamie Hollister
Boots Southerland ... Scar Face Leader
Joey Hamlin ... Laughing Boy Killer
Daniel O'Haco ... Happy (as Danny O'Haco)
Bradley Whitford ... Tommy Donnelly
Jill Scott Momaday ... Janie
R.L. Tolbert ... Lean Poker Player
P.J. Pesce ... Scared Mustachioed Cowboy
Rockne Tarkington ... Packo
Michael Huddleston ... Clyde
Peter Gregory ... Dry Goods Clerk
George Cook ... Swedish Farmer
Elliot 'Bub' Tolbert ... Michael
Andrea Camarena-Lindsay ... Katrin (as Andrea Camarena Lindsay)
Jerry Gardner ... Sheriff Whitaker
Sam Gauny ... Wells Fargo Clerk
Wally Welch ... Sanchez
Tom Berto ... Stage Driver
Ramon Frank ... Shotgun
Jeff O'Haco ... Frenchy
Tom Abrams ... Red
Jon Maldonado ... Marvin
Malissa Feruzzi ... Kate Jessie
Cecile Krevoy ... Con Woman in Saloon
Gretchen Becker ... Con Woman in Saloon
and more...

Directed
P.J. Pesce

Writing Credits
P.J. Pesce
Tom Abrams

Produced
Elaine Dysinger ... line producer
Brad Krevoy ... producer
Chad Oman ... co-producer
Steven Stabler ... producer (as Steve Stabler)

Music
Stephen Endelman

Cinematography
Michael Bonvillain ... director of photography

Trivia
Unknown

Goofs
Continuity
The posse contains 6 men when they ride into town prior to the shootout.
The shootout kills one of them, and a second member is killed by the Marshal.
In the following scene where they are on the trail of the fugitives, the posse again numbers 6 men.

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations
Bonanza Creek Ranch - 15 Bonanza Creek Lane, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico, USA
Coconino National Forest, Arizona, USA
Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, USA
Prescott Valley, Arizona, USA
Woodchute Mountain, Arizona, USA
Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, USA

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Blind Justice is a 1994 American television film on HBO directed by
Richard Spence. It features Armand Assante, Robert Davi, Elisabeth Shue,
Adam Baldwin, and Jack Black.
First Nations actor Jimmy Herman (Dances with Wolves) appears as a shaman.
It was shot entirely in Arizona.

User Review

Offbeat Western about a strange blind gunfighter caring a baby and taking on a nasty bandit named Alacran
11 June 2012 | by ma-cortes

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A blind gunman roams through Mexico carrying a baby and seeks vengeance against a cruel Mexican outlaw and hoodlums . TV Western filmed in location and deals with a Blindman who arrives in a town ravaged by bandits . The gunfighter enemy is Alacran and his gang who terrorize themselves the villagers . There appears Canaan ( Armand Assante) , a mysterious gunslinger left nearly blind from Civil War combat at the battle of Antietam . At the beginning Canaan rescues a man from bandits , he then passes through a border town where Union Cavalry officers (led by Adam Baldwin) assigned to deliver a load of silver are under attack from brutal outlaws . With some reluctance, Canaan steps in to help the soldiers . Later on , Clay is imprisoned by the bandit Alacran (Robert Davi) and also townsfolk is living in terror of his band . In the middle of these two waring parties is a beautiful woman (Elizabeth Shue) who helps and heals Canaan . The gunfighter enters the town caught between two feuding factions, a nasty U.S. officer and a gang of Mexican bandits attempting to take the shipment , and is caught up in a struggle against them . But here is a problem however, Canaan is blind.

The film packs violence , shootouts , high body-count , continuous flashbacks about Civil War , and it's fast moving and quite entertaining . There is plenty of action in the movie , guaranteeing some shoot'em up or stunts every few minutes . It's an exciting western with breathtaking showdown between the starring Armand Assante and his enemies , Robert Davi , Danny Nucci , among others . The movie contains gun-play, action Western , thrills and bloody spectacle . Screenplay with interesting premise about a 'blind gunfighter' though its origin results to be a Japanese series starred by ¨Zaitochi¨, a blind swordsman from the 60s and being recently remade by Takeshi Kitano . This interesting theme about a blind gunslinger is also treated in other films such as ¨The Blindman¨ by Ferdinando Baldi with Tony Anthony and Ringo Starr , ¨An eye for eye¨ by Michael Moore with Robert Lansing and ¨Minessota Clay¨ with Cameron Mitchell , directed by Sergio Corbucci . An interesting casting full of usual Titus Welliver , M.C.Gainey and brief appearance by then unknown Jack Black . Special mention to Robert Davi in his ordinary role as a cruelly baddie , he is terrific, and bears a hysterical and mocking aspect , subsequently he would play similar characters . The movie gets the ordinary Western issues, such as avengers antiheroes , violent facing off , quick scenes and exaggerated baddies . It's an improbable blending of standard Western with pursuits, high body-count and it's fast moving and quite entertaining . Mediocre cinematography by Jack Conroy, but is necessary a perfect remastering , being the copy washed-out .

Direction by Richard Spence (New world disorder ,Brookside , Different for girls) is well crafted, here he is more cynical and violent and less inclined toward humor and packs too much action . Spence makes a nice camera work with clever choreography on the showdown , fighting , moving shootouts and bemusing scenes . It's an outlandish , surprising and uneven story but will appeal to Western aficionados . Rating : 5,5 , riotous Western in which there's too much action and violence and excitement enough .

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Plot Summary
Canaan, a mysterious gunfighter left nearly blind from Civil War combat, roams through Mexico with a baby he has sworn to protect. On his way to a town where a family will supposedly adopt the baby, Canaan passes through a border town where U.S. Cavalry officers assigned to deliver a shipment of silver are under attack from bandits. With some reluctance, Canaan steps in to help the soldiers.
Written by Ronos

Cast
Armand Assante ... Canaan
Elisabeth Shue ... Caroline
Robert Davi ... Alacran
Adam Baldwin ... Sgt. Hastings
Ian McElhinney ... Father Malone
Danny Nucci ... Roberto
M.C. Gainey ... Bull
Titus Welliver ... Sumner
Jack Black ... Private
Michael O'Neill ... Spencer Heyman
Douglas Roberts ... Capt. Teller
Gary Carlos Cervantes ... Luis (as Gary Cervantes)
Jesse Dabson ... Pvt. Wilcox
Stanton Davis ... Officer
Jimmy Herman ... Shaman
Clayton Landey ... Ernie Fowler
James Oscar Lee ... Beauchamp
Daniel O'Haco ... Scout
Jeff O'Haco ... Vato
Jon Pennell ... Young soldier
Jason Rodriguez ... Hector (as Jason Reins-Rodriguez)
Ric San Nicholas ... Remick
Forrie J. Smith ... Coyote
Michael A. Goorjian ... Soldier #1 (as Michael Goorjian)
Tom Hodges ... Soldier #2
and more...

Directed
Richard Spence

Writing Credits
Daniel Knauf ... (written by)

Produced
Cynthia Fitzpatrick ... producer: trailer
David Heyman ... producer
Neal H. Moritz ... producer
Rick Nathanson ... producer

Music
Richard Gibbs

Cinematography
Jack Conroy

Trivia
Elements of the film's story and main character were inspired by the DC comic book "Jonah Hex". It's a story of a deformed ex-confederate soldier who works as a bounty hunter.

Goofs
Factual errors
Canaan carries two Colt Single Action Army 6-shot revolvers, which carry a maximum of six rounds each. However, in one shooting scene, he fires eight shots from one pistol, then draws the other and fires only four rounds. He then states that the second revolver is empty.

Plot holes
Most of the activities that Canaan performs throughout the movie, especially shooting and keeping his horse on course, would be impossible for a blind or nearly-blind man to do.

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations
Gold Canyon, Arizona, USA
Superstition Mountains, Arizona, USA
Superstition Wilderness, Arizona, USA
Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA
Apache Junction, Arizona, USA
Apacheland Studios - 4369 S. Kings Ranch Road, Gold Canyon, Arizona, USA
Superior, Arizona, USA
Arizona, USA

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The Last Outlaw is a western starring Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney,

Ted Levine, Daniel Quinn, Gavan O'Herlihy, Keith David, John C. McGinley, and Steve Buscemi,
along with a variety of other known actors, which has since become a cult classic among western genre fans.
It was directed by Geoff Murphy and written by Eric Red.
It was initially broadcast on HBO on October 30, 1993

User Review

Blood drenched machismo
15 August 2016 | by NateWatchesCoolMovies (Canada)

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The Last Outlaw is a revenge themed western written by Eric Red, and if you're at all familiar with his other works (he also penned The Hitcher and Near Dark), you'll have some idea of how bloody and intense it is. It's a smile story populated by hard bitten, gruff sons of bitches, and the violence comes fast and hard from all directions as soon as a few backs are stabbed, and several ravenous tempers ignited. Often in westerns the violence is clipped and minimal, the damage which a six gun does to flesh oddly shirked in favour of theatricality. This one has no use for that, and messily displays exactly what such a weapon does to people, repeatedly and with no discretion. It's rough, gritty, Walter Hill style stuff, with not a trace of levity, smash or buckle, and every character kicking up dirt and anger the whole time. The film opens with a daring bank robbery, executed by former civil war Colonel Graff (Mickey Rourke), and his brutal gang. Their victory turns sour when mutiny looms among them in the form of Graff's second in command, Eustos (Dermot Mulroney). He can't abide by Graff's sadistic methods, and bitterly betrays him. The rest is a bullet ridden cat and mouse game in the dusty deserts and shanty towns of the southwest, as the bodies pile up and the blood spatters in the dirt time and time again. Rourke is an implosive, grade A dickhead as Graff, a man less concerned with the fruits of his labor and more driven by the desire to exact violent retribution. One wonders if that's what he's in the game for anyway, to bide his time until something goes amiss, and the revel in the carnage. The supporting cast is just epic, with work from Steve Buscemi, Ted Levine, Paul Ben Victor, Richard Fancy, John C. McGinley and Keith David. It's essentially one big stylish bloodbath, a pulpy ride through the gutter of arrogant machismo. Terrific fun, if that's your thing.

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Plot Summary
After a bloodbath of a robbery taken right out of "The Wild Bunch"
and then being betrayed by his gang, Graff joins the side of the law
to hunt his enemies and kill them one by one.
Written by Jason Ihle

Cast
Mickey Rourke ... Graff
Dermot Mulroney ... Eustis
Ted Levine ... Potts
John C. McGinley ... Wills
Steve Buscemi ... Philo
Keith David ... Lovecraft
Daniel Quinn ... Loomis
Gavan O'Herlihy ... Marshal Sharp
Richard Fancy ... Banker McClintock
Tom Connor ... Bank Teller
Sid Klinge ... Young Man
Phil Mead ... Bartender
Paul Ben-Victor ... Posseman Grubb
Greg Doty ... Posseman #1
J.D. Garfield ... Posseman #2 (as John David Garfield)
Jake Walker ... Posseman #3
Marvin Gilbert ... Posseman
Edward Proudfoot ... Posseman
Joey Rourke ... Posseman
Darryl Shay ... Posseman
and more...

Directed
Geoff Murphy

Writing Credits
Eric Red

Produced
John Davis ... producer
Cynthia Fitzpatrick ... producer: trailer
Merrill H. Karpf ... executive producer
James Margellos ... co-producer
Eric Red ... co-executive producer

Music
Mason Daring

Cinematography
Jack Conroy

Trivia
Unknown

Goofs
Anachronisms
The song that Graff repeatedly whistles, and is sung by the men accompanying him, is Unreconstructed Rebel aka Good Ol' Rebel. The song was not written until 1914, many years after the setting of the movie.

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations
Abiquiu, New Mexico, USA
Cook Ranch, Galisteo, New Mexico, USA
Diablo Canyon, near, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Nambe Pueblo, Nambe, New Mexico, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

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Dead Man's Gun was an American western, spun off the anthology TV series
that ran on Showtime from 1997 to 1999
The series followed the travels of a gun as it passed to a new character in each episode.
The gun would change the life of whoever possessed it.

The movie was narrated by Kris Kristofferson. The executive producer was Henry Winkler.

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Sorry.. my apologies.....
1 October 2004 | by BigLaxFan94 (Mono, Ontario - Canada)

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I just wanted to clear something up from the original comments I made about "Dead Man's Gun". At the end of the comments I said that I didn't see any voting button to click so I missed it. Well, I just saw it and I just cast my vote for a 9 out of 10 for this film. I originally gave this film an 8 but then I thought it was a little better than an 8 so I gave it a 9. Another reason why I didn't vote on this was because this film was a made-for-TV film and normally whenever I comment on a made-for-TV film there's usually no place where you can place your vote. Another thing: the girl who played Gordon Tootoosis' granddaughter. She appears to be Cheri Maracle but I need to make sure. Anyways, still a good film nonetheless.

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Plot Summary
It is only a gun - not a common gun but its mystery is not the unusual manufacture but the fact that it is a dead man's gun. Three stories follow the fate of successive holders of this haunted weapon. The Great McDonacle is a second-rate trick shot artist; in his hands the gun cannot miss even the most difficult shots, but doesn't make him quite fast enough. Jack Fleetwood steals the gun from its sleeping owner; he can salt a mine with it and cheat an honest farmer by convincing him to buy this worthless mine, but the con man can be conned. Cole finds the gun on a skeleton; a fast draw becomes a reality, but tragedy comes to his brother. At the end, the gun is returned to the skeleton, waiting for its next victim.
Written by Bruce Cameron

Cast
Kris Kristofferson ... Narrator
John Ritter ... Harry McDonacle (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Teryl Rothery ... Ariadne (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Jay Brazeau ... Dobbs (segment "Great McDonacle, The")
April Telek ... Brittany (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Alf Humphreys ... Simon Grey (segment "The Great McDonacle") (as Alfred E. Humphreys)
Annabel Kershaw ... Mary Grey (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Douglas Arthurs ... Angel Moralis (segment "Great McDonacle, The")
John 'Bear' Curtis ... Big Joe Silas (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Luc Corbeil ... Man (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Dean Wray ... Bob Meade (segment "The Great McDonacle")
French Tickner ... James J. Peterson (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Brad Payne ... Blue-eyed boy (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Adrien Dorval ... Heckler (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Noah Heney ... Inebrieted heckler (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Rod Crawford ... Man #1 (segment "The Great McDonacle")
and many more...

Directed
Neill Fearnley ... (segment "My Brother's Keeper")
Joseph L. Scanlan ... (segment "The Great McDonacle")
Brad Turner ... (segment "Fool's Gold")

Writing Credits
Howard Spielman ... (created, written by) &
Ed Spielman ... (created, written by)

Produced
Larry Sugar ... producer
Henry Winkler ... executive producer

Music
Terry Frewer

Cinematography
Bruce Worrall

Trivia
Unknown

Goofs
Unknown

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Plot Summary
Maverick is recreated from the character James Garner created in the 1950s TV program. Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them. He needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a Winner Take All poker game that begins in a few days. He tries to win some, tries to collect a few debts, and recover a little loot for the reward, all with a light hearted air. He joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvelous, though fake, southern accent as the two both try and enter the game.
Written by John Vogel

Cast
Mel Gibson ... Bret Maverick
Jodie Foster ... Annabelle Bransford
James Garner ... Marshal Zane Cooper
Graham Greene ... Joseph
Alfred Molina ... Angel
James Coburn ... Commodore Duvall
Dub Taylor ... Room Clerk
Geoffrey Lewis ... Matthew Wicker / Eugene, BankerPaul L. Smith ... The Archduke
Dan Hedaya ... Twitchy, Riverboat Poker Player
Dennis Fimple ... Stuttering
Denver Pyle ... Old Gambler on Riverboat
Clint Black ... Sweet-Faced Gambler
Max Perlich ... Johnny Hardin
Art LaFleur ... Poker Player (as Art La Fleur)
Leo Gordon ... Poker Player (as Leo V. Gordon)
Paul Tuerpe ... Poker Player
Jean De Baer ... Mary Margret
Paul Brinegar ... Stage Driver
Hal Ketchum ... Bank Robber
Corey Feldman ... Bank Robber
John M. Woodward ... Bank Robber (as John Woodward)
Jesse Eric Carroll ... Stable Boy
Toshonnie Touchin ... Stable Boy
John Meier ... Unshaven Man
Steven Chambers ... Unshaven Man (as Steve Chambers)
Doc Duhame ... Unshaven Man
Frank Orsatti ... Unshaven Man
Lauren Shuler Donner ... Mrs. D., Bathhouse Maid (as Lauren Shuler-Donner)
Courtney Barilla ... Music Box Girl
Kimberly Cullum ... Music Box Girl
Gary Richard Frank ... Crooked Dealer
Read Morgan ... Dealer
Steve Kahan ... Dealer
Stephen Liska ... Dealer
Robert Jones ... Bank Employee
J. Mills Goodloe ... Telegraph Operator (as John Mills Goodloe)
Vilmos Zsigmond ... Albert Bierstadt
Waylon Jennings ... Man with Concealed Guns
Kathy Mattea ... Woman with Concealed Guns
Carlene Carter ... Waitress
Vince Gill ... Spectator
Janis Oliver ... Spectator (as Janice Gill)
William Smith ... Riverboat Poker Player
Chuck Hart ... Riverboat Poker Player
Doug McClure ... Riverboat Poker Player
Henry Darrow ... Riverboat Poker Player
Michael Paul Chan ... Riverboat Poker Player
Richard Blum ... Riverboat Poker Player
Bert Remsen ... Riverboat Poker Player
Robert Fuller ... Riverboat Poker Player
Donal Gibson ... Riverboat Poker Player
William Marshall ... Riverboat Poker Player
Bill Henderson ... Riverboat Poker Player (as Bill Handerson)
Cal Bartlett ... Riverboat Poker Player
Richard Donner ... Dealer (uncredited)
Will Hutchins ... Spectator (uncredited)
Reba McEntire ... Spectator (uncredited)
and many more...

Directed
Richard Donner

Writing Credits
Roy Huggins ... (television series Maverick)
William Goldman ... (written by)

Produced
Alexander B. Collett ... associate producer
Bruce Davey ... producer
Richard Donner ... producer
Jim Van Wyck ... co-producer

Music
Randy Newman

Cinematography
Vilmos Zsigmond

Trivia
Jodie Foster's character's gracelessness in the film stems from the first scene she shot, when she waited for Mel Gibson to help her down from the stagecoach. Instead, he took her parasol and walked away. She tried to get down alone and flopped to the ground. Director Richard Donner liked it so much he kept the shot in the film, and staged more scenes of Foster stumbling, being dumped through windows, etc.

Near the movie's beginning, Maverick asks the young man wearing the bowler hat at the poker table who claims to be a gunfighter what his name is. He answers, "Johnny Hardin," and Maverick fumbles his chips pretending to be scared, but then clowns around pointing his own gun at the youth. The real John Wesley Hardin was a notoriously fast, volatile and deadly gunfighter of the old west who shot and killed over 40 men before being shot in the back of the head and killed in 1895.

Steve Kahan (dealer during the poker tournament) also plays Mel Gibson's (Martin Riggs') captain in the "Lethal Weapon" franchise. In that series, Gibson is a constant irritation for Kahan throughout. As an inside joke, near the end of the tournament you see Kahan give Gibson a terse handshake (barely acknowledging his presence) before quickly exiting the table. This happens right after Gibson's character knocks out the last player before reaching the final table. In actuality Kahan gets stuck in his chair, and as he stands up his chair comes with him. His handshake with Gibson is cut short because he wants to remove the chair. Notice Gibson's expression as he chokes back a laugh just before the scene changes.

James Garner, who plays Zane Cooper, was the original Bret Maverick in Maverick (1957).

The $25,000 needed to enter the poker tournament in the 19th century America
would be about $600,000 in 2004 terms.

Leo Gordon, who plays one of the poker players in the first card scene, wrote four episodes of the original Maverick (1957) TV series in he 1960-1961 season and made five guest appearances as Big Mike McComb between 1957 and 1959.

In the stagecoach chase sequence, stuntman Mic Rodgers (doubling for Mel Gibson) had to go under the coach and get up at the back. This is a direct nod to legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt's similar stunt in Stagecoach (1939). By coincidence, second-unit director Terry Leonard, a former stuntman himself, performed this same stunt in the truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).

The steamship "Lauren Belle" is named for Lauren Shuler Donner, wife of director Richard Donner. She also appears in the movie as the bathhouse maid. James Garner's character calls her "Mrs. D" as she is leaving.

Annabelle keeps calling Bret, "Bert." This is a reference to an episode of the original Maverick (1957)
TV series in which a girlfriend of Bret's kept calling him Bert.

This was not Jodie Foster's first appearance in a James Garner movie. Twenty one years earlier she co-starred with him in One Little Indian (1973).

The name of James Garner's character, Zane Cooper, is taken from novelist Zane Grey and actor Gary Cooper, both of whom worked almost exclusively in the Western genre.

After Bret Maverick escapes from his botched hanging, he is shown plodding through the desert,
dragging a tree limb behind him as the sand swirls around him.
This mirrors a situation from The Road Warrior (1981), when The Gyro Captain is chained to a log by Max, also played by Mel Gibson, and forced to find his way out of the desert.

Another Lethal Weapon reference arises when Annabelle shrinks Maverick's "Lucky Shirt", in the same way that Leo shrinks Riggs's shirt in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989).

The initials of the stagecoach line in the movie are "GMC"
which continued the use of GMC trucks in the Richard Donner/Mel Gibson Lethal Weapon series.
GMC trucks have been driven by Gibson's character in every Lethal Weapon movie.

In the final scene, where Maverick (Mel Gibson) shows his cards one at a time, this is called "Slow-rolling" - a big breach of table etiquette in poker and in modern times. Additionally, every hand played by the Commodore demonstrates 'Slow-rolling'.

The large rock formation in the distance behind Maverick when he is playing the "sick injun" hunted by the Russian archduke, is Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California. It's partially visible first when Maverick is attempting to ride the bicycle and again later when Maverick leaves the Native American village.

Clint Black, the "Sweet Faced Gambler", also sang the song "Good Run Of Bad Luck" on the film's soundtrack. This song plays during the first round of the Poker championship. Ironically just as the song ends Black's character is caught cheating and thrown off the boat.

Final film of Denver Pyle.

James Garner's role was first offered to Paul Newman who turned it down.

Actor Paul Brinegar, the stagecoach driver who dies "on the road," was also the character Wishbone the cook on the 1959 series Rawhide (1959) which also starred Clint Eastwood as "Rowdy Yates."

Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster became close friends after the making of this film. She was also considered to play Gibson's love interest again in conspiracy theory which was also directed by Richard Donner but she turned it down due to Contact and the role went to Julia Roberts. Both Mel and Jodie still love to play poker. They worked together again on the beaver which was directed by Jodie Foster.

This film is loaded with cameos by famous country singers, such as Carlene Carter (playing a waitress on the riverboat), Hal Ketchum (bank robber), Vince Gill (spectator at the poker game), Clint Black (gambler who gets thrown off the boat for cheating), Waylon Jennings and Kathy Mattea (two people with guns on the riverboat).

Gary Ross had been brought to rewrite the scenes involving The Magician, a character played by Linda Hunt, which were ultimately cut out of the movie after test screenings.

A number of stars of classic television westerns play in the poker tournament: Denver Pyle from The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955), William Smith from Laredo (1965), Doug McClure and James Drury from The Virginian (1962), Henry Darrow from The High Chaparral (1967) and Robert Fuller from Wagon Train (1957) and Laramie (1959).

During the scene where Bret confronts the fake Indians lying drunk around the campfire,
one of them calls him "Bart". Bart was the name of Bret's brother on the original Maverick (1957) TV Series.

Mel Gibson had special lessons to learn how to draw a gun from a holster.

Alice Cooper had a cameo as the town drunk, but his segment was cut.

Bret keeps a $100 bill pinned to the inside of his coat pocket for emergencies. On the original Maverick (1957) TV series, Bret kept a $1,000 bill pinned to the inside of his coat for emergencies.

Linda Hunt and western actor Clint Walker both had cameo roles in this film,
Hunt playing a magician and Walker playing a sheriff.
However, the film itself ran too long, so their parts were cut from the theatrical release.

Cameo: Corey Feldman as one of the bank robbers in Danny Glover's gang. Feldman worked with director Richard Donner on "The Goonies".

Meg Ryan was the original choice for Annabelle.

Towards the end of the movie, Bret says goodbye to Annabelle on the riverboat. This may have been a nod to the original series; in the original series theme song, some of the lyrics are: "Riverboat ring your bell. Fare thee well Annabelle."

Final film of Dub Taylor.

The band playing in the background on the riverboat is Restless Heart.

Final film of Leo Gordon.

Mel Gibson assumes the title character originated by co-star James Garner in Maverick (1957) and a slew of miscellaneous episodes from related TV series.

Corey Feldman claimed in a Yahoo interview that Richard Donner originally intended for Feldman to play Johnny Hardin but this was vetoed by Mel Gibson after an audition. Feldman was then given the role of a bank robber instead.

After filmmakers decided to cut out the scenes involving The Magician (played by Linda Hunt), some scenes had to be reshot. Reshoots were scheduled for the weekend of March 20-21, exactly two months before the movie's premiere.

Final film of William Marshall.

Dub Taylor, who this was the final film before his death, has a brief cameo during the initial poker scene. He also was a poker dealer in a short scene in the Cincinnati Kid.

Jodie Foster's character is named Annabelle, which is also the name of her character in the original Disney film Freaky Friday (1976).

Julia Roberts and Michelle Pfeiffer were also considered to play Annabelle Bransford in case Jodie Foster wasn't available.

Jodie Foster's part as Annabelle Bransford closely resembles Diane Brewster's character, Samantha Crawford, whom she played twice during the first season of the original television show. They both are con artists and they both have a phony southern accent.

The first film released on Kodak's EXR 2386 polyester print stock.

In Phil Collins' autobiography "Not Dead Yet" he says he was considered for an unspecified part in the film, but that he didn't get the role.

Cameo
Danny Glover: bank robber. Glover's and Mel Gibson's characters appear to almost recognize each other. This is a reference to Lethal Weapon (1987), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), and Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), all of which were also directed by Richard Donner. During their appearance on screen, the Lethal Weapon theme song can be heard, and as Glover departs he says "I'm too old for this shit", a line his character used frequently in the Lethal Weapon series. Gibson and Glover again starred together in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).

Margot Kidder: Margret Mary, one of the villagers robbed of their mission money. Kidder starred as Lois Lane in Richard Donner's Superman (1978).

Vilmos Zsigmond: The cinematographer appears as landscape painter Albert Bierstadt.

Reba McEntire: An extra in the opening poker scene of the movie.

Spoilers .
FORESHADOWING: Throughout the movie, when Mel Gibson's character says "my pappy always used to say," the camera cuts to James Garner rolling his eyes. At the end of the film Garner is revealed to actually be Gibson's father.

In the final scene Maverick has a 10-J-Q-K of Spades, even though he pulled the Ace of Spades to win the game, he could have won even with a nine of Spades, which would have given him a higher straight flush than Angel.

After lending Mrs. Bransford money to join the poker tournament, Maverick says "if by some small chance, you should happen to win, I will be expecting 50 percent," to which Mrs. Bransford confusingly replies, "well, then, I'll be expecting 50 percent of your winnings, Mr. Maverick." At the end of the movie, Mrs. Bransford ends up making off with 50 percent of Maverick's winnings.

Cameo: Steve Kahan, Kahan who plays the Cheif in Lethal Weapon 2, 3 and 4. Plays Mavericks dealer at the second to last table before the final round.

Right before the poker game Annabell said she expects 50% of Maverick's winnings. At the end she steals that much from him

Goofs
Anachronisms
When Bret asks Joseph to "Shake his head, fire his gun and yell", a jet airplane can be seen flying over Joseph's head as he plays along with Bret's request. Obviously, jets didn't exist in the time that this film was set.

The playing cards used at the tournament have rounded corners as modern decks do instead of the period correct sharp corners

Tire tracks are visible on the dust trail during the runaway stagecoach scene.

When Maverick is talking to the women from the wagon train, a truck can be seen in the distance, traveling from left to right.

While Maverick is climbing over the runaway stage coach toward the dead driver, a car is visible in the upper right corner.[widescreen only]

Contrail visible in the sky behind Joseph while the missionaries, Coop and Anabelle are watching Bret parlay with the Indians.

In the first few minutes of the film, Mel Gibson says a man smelled of "refried beans." This term was not really in use until the mid-20th Century as the term "refritos" would have been used at the time.

Audio/visual unsynchronised
When Maverick begins babbling "I can't believe I pulled that card" his lips are not moving.

Continuity
In the first steamboat scene, while first traveling to the poker event, there is banter between Maverick and the other two main characters. The port steamboat paddle wheel is visible. Between supposedly continual shots, the wheels speed changes dramatically from very slow to quite fast. It happens several times.

On the steamboat, the door to Maverick's room is immovable when seen from within the room, but able to be budged when seen from outside.

During the fight scene between Angel and Maverick's "attackers", the rope Angel uses to pin one of them to a pole keeps disappearing and reappearing between shots.

in the scene where the Indians approach the wagon train, and Maverick tells them to fire their rifles, they each do so repeatedly, without re-cocking them between each shot. They are using lever-cock rifles.

When Maverick is out in the desert about to be hung,
you can see the rope clearly goes over the branch of the tree and then comes down and is tied lower on the tree, as it would be normally. Seconds later when the branch breaks Maverick is free and the rope is no longer attached to the tree.

On the steam boat as Maverick is about to return to the game at 5am, you can see that the door to his room has the door jamb on the inside of his room, indicating that it opens out. As it switches to the view from the hall, showing that it is chained, you can see that it opens to to the inside of the room.

When Maverick climbs the stagecoach, his leg breaks into the passenger area from above; seconds later the ceiling of the passenger area is undamaged.

Just before the campfire shootout, Maverick tells Annabelle and Coop that he only has six bullets, but during the scene he fires twelve without reloading.

Just before Maverick meets Annabelle for the first time in the saloon: after he sees the people playing poker, he is still going down the stairs although he had stopped at the bottom just before.

After the poker game in the saloon, Maverick goes back to his room without closing the door. But a few seconds later, Annabelle knocks on the door which is suddenly closed.

On the ferry, Coop takes Annabelle's umbrella and helps her onto the stage. In the next shot, the umbrella has disappeared.

As Maverick leaves his room in the saloon he locks the door behind him. When he returns, the opens the door with his hands full and keys in his mouth.

When Coop and Annabelle are finding out information about Maverick on the ferry, the water wheel behind Annabelle moves at different speeds between shots.

When Maverick sits down at the table at the beginning of the movie, Annabelle's hand is on her cheek when the camera is on her but in her lap when the camera is on Maverick.

During the runaway coach sequence, the sky repeatedly changes from being overcast and cloudy to clear blue between shots.

As the stagecoach nears the women that were robbed, the horses switch from jogging to loping between shots.

When Maverick wins his first hand after losing for an hour, the first shot of the table shows all of the cards neatly arranged around the chips, while in the next shot from behind Johnny Hardin, they are strewn around in a mess.

When Maverick takes the satchel with money from Cooper and the Commodore, a couple of dollar bundles are still left on the log. However, the next time that log is shown and Maverick is talking about maybe letting one of the guys kill the other, those dollar bundles are gone...

When Marshal Cooper leaves the steamboat after stealing the money, the steamboat is clearly stationary; however when the Commodore comes on deck a few seconds later to shoot at Cooper, the paddle wheel is turning and the steamboat clearly is underway.

When Angel is beating up the 5 guys who pretended to fight Maverick the night before, he deals with the last guy by wrapping a bullwhip or leather strap of some sort around his neck, choking him against a pillar. In 2 or 3 shots, the strap is wrapped around his throat, but not the pillar. Other times, it's wrapped around both as it should be.

In a scene where Maverick, Annabelle and Sheriff Cooper are all facing the camera, Maverick and Cooper switch sides several times.

When Angel is beating up the five guys who pretended to fight Maverick the night before, he deals with the last guy by wrapping a whip or leather strap of some sort around his neck, choking him against a pillar. In two or three shots, the strap is wrapped around his throat, but not the pillar. Other times, it's wrapped around both as it should be.

On the balcony at the hotel, as Annabelle is trying to escape after stealing Maverick's wallet,
he removes his suspenders, but in the next shot, they are back over his shoulders again.

Crew or equipment visible
Guidewire visible on the arrow shot at Maverick.

Errors in geography
There are no mountains or large sandstone cliffs near St Louis.

At a speed which would be nearly impossible with a car, in 4 days Maverick moves from a desert scene, through what have to be the Rocky Mountains, back to desert (hanging from the tree), to St Louis for the game.

Factual errors
Annabelle gives her dealer a $1000 chip in the poker tournament before the final table. This is common in cash games in which money is won after each hand. Unlike cash games however, tournament chips have no money value and cannot be exchanged for cash.

Plot holes
There are several problems with the final (set-up) hand of the tournament. The dealer switches out the shuffled deck with the stacked deck containing the set up hands. Firstly, this move is far too obvious to work - just about everyone's attention would be focused on the dealer at this point. As he deals out the hands, the point is to make Maverick and the Commodore think they have the best hand while really letting Angel have the best hand. When dealing the cards to Angel, the dealer deals from the bottom of the deck. That is the second issue - if the deck is stacked why risk being caught dealing from the bottom of the deck? Why not just have him put the correct cards on the top? Third, if the cheat had gone according to plan, Maverick would have had a hand that likely wouldn't have allowed him to call Angel's all-in bet. Instead of a missed royal flush draw, it would make more sense to give him a hand similar to the Commodore's four-of-a-kind, so he'd be likely to call Angel's bet. Similarly, it makes no sense to give him a hand that even had a potential to beat Angel's straight flush.
And finally, if they did give Maverick a royal flush draw, why wouldn't they have just stacked the deck so it wasn't possible for Maverick to win under any circumstances? For instance, just have the Ace and 9 of spades, Maverick's only two outs, dealt as burn cards, or perhaps to the Commodore. Instead they chose to stack the deck but gave Maverick outs, and didn't plan far enough ahead to not have one of those two outs sitting as the next card on the deck. EDIT: Dealing off the bottom of the deck is the most common cheat practice because you can never account for what other players may or may not draw. Dealing the set cards off the bottom means it doesn't matter what anyone else does...you give those players the random cards on top, you give the others the set cards off the bottom. In this sense, it's entirely possible, if not probable, that the goal of that hand was to bust The Commodore, and that the cards given to Maverick were pure luck.

Revealing mistakes
When Maverick (Mel Gibson) wins his last hand of poker at his table (prior to the final round) the dealer stands up and shakes his hand. As he stands up, the chair is stuck to him. As he shakes Maverick's hand, he knocks the chair loose. He then turns and goes off camera, shaking his head and starting to laugh.

When Maverick, Annabelle and Cooper are talking on the ferry boat with the paddle wheel turning in the background, it can be seen that the paddle wheel is dry.

Cable marginally visible as Maverick flies over the edge of the cliff.

Spoilers
Continuity
When the Commodore meets up with Cooper after he has stolen the poker tournament winnings, the Commodore startles Cooper, and he pulls his gun (indicating that he has it on him at the time). A few minutes later when Maverick shows up, he takes away the Commodore's gun, but not Cooper's. Yet Cooper's holsters are empty in the next shot.

Revealing mistakes
The winning card that Maverick throws at the end of the match is obviously thicker and made of a heavier material than the rest of the deck so that it will land face up across the table.

Memorable Quotes

Filming Locations
Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, USA
Lake Powell, Arizona, USA
Glen Canyon, Utah, USA
Leidig Meadow, Yosemite National Park, California, USA
Lone Pine, California, USA
Beacon Rock, Columbia River Gorge, Washington, USA
El Mirage Dry Lake, California, USA
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA
Laramie Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Page, Arizona, USA
Washburn Point, Yosemite National Park, California, USA
Lee's Ferry, Arizona, USA
Marble Canyon, Arizona, USA
Mescal, Arizona, USA
Stages 12,18 & 21 Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, US

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The Proud Ones is a 1956 western film directed by
Robert D. Webb and starring Robert Ryan and Virginia Mayo.

Apart from Robert Ryan,
look out for Duke 'Pals' Walter Brennan, Jeffery Hunter, Wiliam Fawcett

User Review

Good solid Western Action!
19 September 2005 | by BOB L'ALOGE (southwestern Arizona)

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The Proud Ones is just that: A Western about the proud men of the Old West starring Robert Ryan and Virginia Mayo and a host of other good performers. The plot is simple: A lawman is trying to keep peace in town when the trail drovers arrive. One of them, a young cowboy with two sixguns on his hips, has a grudge against the lawman because the lawman killed his father a few years earlier in another town. Ryan, playing the lawman, takes the youth under his wings and trains him. Eventually, he comes around. But that is not the main problem. Ryan, suffering a wound, is having trouble with his eye-sight and it's effecting his work. That will pose a great problem before the movie ends