Westerns > Silverstein, Elliott Westerns

Take it easy Catherine..!!!

Advantages: Excellent story-line, superb acting by Lee Marvin.
Disadvantages: Weaker characterization of Clay Boone.

...directed the famous western movie Cat Ballou, and it was released in 1965. It was a huge financial success at the box-office. This movie also achieved several prestigious awards for its unique and engaging story-line and superb acting by lead characters. The story of this movie revolves around an educated young lady, who gathers a team to avenge her father’s brutal murder. ~STORY BASED ON~ The story of this movie was taken from a novel written ...
...and widely recognized for directing Cat Ballou. One of the most famous American actresses Jane Fonda portrayed the title character in this movie as Catherine Ballou. MAIN CHARACTERS • Jane Fonda plays the role of Catherine “Cat” Ballou(An young girl, just completed her eastern education, and coming back to her father’s ranch in Wyoming) • Michael Callan plays the role of Clay Boone (A young criminal and captured by local Sherriff for trial and ...

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Review of Cat Ballou (DVD)

Hard time for Harrison

Advantages: great 1970's Western
Disadvantages: i dont understand Sioux

...with no more respect than a wild animal, and badly treated and beaten, eventually given to a squaw to use as a workhorse. Hence the title ' A Man name Horse'. John befriends another lost sole Batise, who was also captured by the Indians some 5 years earlier, and who is treated in a similar manner. Batise has come to learn the Sioux language, and is able to help John learn and survive, together they plot there escape. But as John comes to learn ...
...potential viewers, but the is a superb western, The effects when John is put through a tortures initiation ceremony are cringing to say the least, Most of the language is spoken in Sioux, but this doesn't detract anything from the film, if anything improves the realism. The director also seems to have got it right, the brutal manner and portrayal of their laws and practises gives you an understanding into the lives and ways of the Indians. Richard ...

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Review of A Man Called Horse (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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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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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 ...

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