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The Long Riders (1980)

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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.

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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.

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