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A Wooden Arnie!

Advantages: Daft and some funny bits
Disadvantages: weak plot, very bad acting from Arnie

Cactus Jack is one of my hubbies favourite films so when he saw it on DVD he had to buy it and I ended up having to sit through it. THE FILM The film is about Cactus Jack Slade (Kirk Douglas) who is a highway man and has a trusty horse called Whisky. He tries to rob the bank in the small town of Snakes End but he is not successful in doing so and ends up being placed in the towns prison. When he is in prison he gets a visit from the owner of the ...
...and soon behind them is Cactus jack who is trying to steel the money for the owner of the bank. All does not go to plan for Cactus Jack and he is soon consulting his bad mans handbook and trying his next hair brained scheme. Will Cactus Jack be able to steel the money and will Handsome Stranger finally give Charming what she is not so discretely after? MY OPINION I was not all impressed with the film after my hubby had told me how good and funny ...

sewbizzie 15.07.2008 · Read full review
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My Country

Advantages: Anti war film.
Disadvantages: Horrific

...First released in 1970, Soldier Blue was first shown in cinemas across the UK, but after public outcry over the content, which included murder of women and children, dismemberment, rape, beheading and much, much more, it was toned down and subsequently shown on national television and then transferred to video, and it is this version that I will refer. Indeed I do not know if it is possible to buy the original uncut version at this time. Soldier ...
...tune by Buffy Sainte-Marie called Soldier Blue is still available on a number of Buffys albums. The all-embracing love the Indians have for the land is summed up for me in one verse of this song “I can stand upon a hill at dawn, look all around me, feel her surround me” The film was taken from a book called “Arrow in the Sun” by Theodore V. Olsen. I believe the film to be unmissable the portrayal of Cresta Lee by Candice Bergen is superb as are ...

Bigbaz 15.01.2002 · Read full review
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Some say he's dead...some say he never will be

Advantages: Great acting, scenery
Disadvantages: None I can think of

...shift boat. The man is Jeremiah Johnson (played b Robert Redford) He is an ex-soldier, he has arrived in Utah to fulfil his ambition of becoming a mountain man. Jeremiah asks the local shop owner where he can go to hunt. The man gives him directions and Jeremiah sets off into the snowy mountains. Jeremiah comes across an old man who hunts bears. He teaches Jeremiah new skills. He tells Jeremiah that the territory he is heading for is indian territory. ...
...The Crows, are killers. Jeremiah again sets off. Along his route he survives treacherous weather and the fear of the indians. He comes across a house where he finds a hysterical woman. Her husband and son have been killed and scalped by the Crows. Jeremiah helps the woman bury her family. He goes into her house to find a small boy cowering in the corner. The woman insists that Jeremiah take the boy with him on his travels. The boy does not speak ...

rufusredcoat 01.12.2009 · Read full review
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Dunbar, not Dumb Bear!

Advantages: Fantastic visuals, Costner
Disadvantages: Can draw it out too long in places

...most powerful films to date, Dances With Wolves is a thoughtful and emotional tale that requires a bit of concentration. Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, it features KC as a war hero who is relocated to a post near a tribe of Sioux Indians. The initial grasp of the film makes you think it's going to be one with emphasis on the conflict involving the Sioux, and for the first part of the film, this is indeed how it is shown, particularly as ...
...Mary McDonnell as a love interest for Dunbar. Dances With Wolves is available from amazon.co.uk for £6.98. It's a film I recommend watching, but you need to focus and concentrate. It's not the sort of film you can have on in the background and completely understand. Recommended. ...

pmcds 26.11.2009 · Read full review
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Lt Dunbar Dances With Wolves

Advantages: amazing acting and storyline, gorgeous scenery and music
Disadvantages: May be too long for some

...battle and the scary looking dances they did around their fires but this was their way of life so I had to accept it. The main Indians which we saw were Holy man and the white woman who was raised by the Indians. They gave excellent performance sand really moved me at times. The one draw back to the Indians was that they spoke in their native language and we had the subtitles turned off at first so was unable to fully understand what they were saying ...
...I thought they all played their roles genuinely and looked the part and the costumes and clothes which they wore made them look like true Sioux Indians. The storyline was great and I loved how they portrayed a soldier from the normal and did not have him attacking and hating the Indians and how they made him want to live comfortably with them and learn about their ways. I think this did show certain parts of the US army in a good light but then ...

sewbizzie 24.11.2009 · Read full review
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