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A brilliant biographical film

Advantages: extremely accurate
Disadvantages: early years of Wyatt Earp feel a touch rushed

...accurately on the story of Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp. Born March 19th 1848. Wyatt would come to spend his adult years during the wildest period of the frontier. Wyatt Earp became legendary as a lawman, and his greatest feats are being the man to clean up Dodge City {One of the most violent frontier towns in the wild west} and for the Gunfight at the O.K Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This film came out a touch later than the fantastic Tombstone starring ...
...purchased it on DVD. Wyatt Earp is a lenghty movie, but needs to be, to get as much information across as possible about the man. Initially the film starts with Wyatt Earp Played by Kevin costner, just verging on adulthood. His father is played by another fantastic actor, Gene Hackman. Here the seeds are sown for the man Wyatt would be, by his father who preaches things like nothing matters more important than blood {meaning family} and if you ever ...

tayloa22 30.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Wyatt Earp (DVD)

better than the Brad Pitt crap

Advantages: Compelling account of Jesse James
Disadvantages: misses his earlier life

The Long Riders- A Review By Addy Introduction The Long Riders is a film that whenever I have watched it I felt it was the sort of film that was directed by one of my favourite directors, Sam Peckinpah. Therefore it came as very little surprise to learn that Sam Peckinpah was Walter Hills mentor. So Walter Hills The Long Riders was released in 1980 and is a film based on the true story of the James/Younger gang led by the enigmatic but ...
...and Frank James rode with the Missouri Raiders under the legendary 'Bloody' Bill Anderson. This is where they harnessed the skills that would in later years see them excel as bank robbers. The Missouri Raiders used Guerilla style warfare which incorporated riding in hard and fast whilst being able to shoot accurately from astride a horse at full gallop. They also utilised espionage, information gathering and all manner of operations outside of the ...

tayloa22 26.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Long Riders (DVD)

Very Enjoyable Film

Advantages: Excellent Film, Entertaining, Brilliant
Disadvantages: None

...is a classic epic of the men who died protecting Texas from Santa Anna's Mexican Army and is well worth viewing for the excellent story and filming. The story follows the time when there was a dispute with Mexico as to whether Texas should be part of it or become an independent state or part of the US of A. The story is about a group of men led by Col Travis (part of the official Texas army) Col Jim Bowie (of the Texas Irregular Fighters) and Col ...
...at an old fort called THE ALAMO in order to give General Sam Housten time to raise an Army to fight Santa Anna. The overall story is that the Mexican Army arrives and attacks THE ALAMO and in the end kills all the soldiers at the fort. REVIEW: If you like Westerns then I would definetely recommend this film. John Wayne is his usual excellent self as Davy Crockett, with Richard Widmark as the legendary Jim Bowie as well as many other old stars ...

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Review of The Alamo (DVD)

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 ...

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Review of Jeremiah Johnson (DVD)

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. ...

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