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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 25 October, 1978 DVD Release : 04 September, 2001 |
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Comes a Horseman description Richard Farnsworth received an Oscar nomination for this 1978 film, directed by the late Alan J. Pakula. He plays an aging ranch hand in the late 1940s, working for Jane Fonda. She's being pressured by her greedy neighbor, Jason Robards, to sell him her land--this after he has had her father murdered to expedite the sale. Robards wants the land be ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Great riding, gorgeous scenery, full characters |
| The story is about a sweeping passion that you don't see much anymore --the grab for land, the insistence that a way of life stays the same.
This movie is additionally noteworthy because it garnered the late actor Richard Farnsworth an Academy Award nomination for his part as the steady and honest "Dodger." Farnsworth turns in a fine performance that is plainly and comfortably delivered. Fonda does a great job playing the part of a tough, unsentimental, and unlikeable but tenacious hard scrabble landowner --a rarity in today's wanna-be-liked movie making machinery. Caan matches her character with an easy going but as hard driving manner, and Robards is an example of menace by long stare. The pacing of the movie is slower than anything made today, so wrap your head round 1978 and just take it in. One of the greatest reasons to watch this movie is the horsemanship. There's some hard riding here, exemplary riding of the sort you don't see as much these days. Farnsworth had a wonderful riding style, straight and graceful. When you see him in the saddle, you miss him. Iconic, you realize how much he carried all the Westerns made from 1937 and on. This is one of those movies where the three leads seem to be easy with horses. For sure, there were things that could have been done to give it more authenticity. But that's not how they did the Western in 1978. So to complain about it now is futile. This would make a great movie to remake if only they could find some actors who really knew how to ride like Farnsworth, Fonda & Caan. Awards 1978: Richard Farnsworth, Best Supporting Actor Winner--National Board of Review, National Society of Film Critics; USA, Best Actor Nominee, Academy Awards, USA. Jane Fonda --Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Award Dennis Lynton Clark--Best Movie Script, Wester Writers of America [[ASIN:B00005R8C1 Western Horseman]] Magazine [[ASIN:B00005UQ67 Cowboys & Indians]] Magazine [[ASIN:0878424407 The Cowboy Kind]] Book with a Forward by Richard Farnsworth [[ASIN:B00004Z4SD The Straight Story]] Movie with Richard Farnsworth, for which he garned a Best Actor Nomination [[ASIN:B00000F3WR The Grey Fox]] starring Richard Farnsworth |
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