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List Price: $19.94 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.95 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DTS Surround Sound • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 06 October, 1989 DVD Release : 02 July, 2002 |
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| Taking place against the backdrop of the Mexican revolution, this movie fills an unusual niche in the filmography of the three main actors, none of whom have done anything like it before or since.
Peck plays Ambrose Bierce, a man whose personality was "...as flinty as the soil of his native New England..."--and probably then some. Although portrayed as cantakerous and feisty and even mean-spirited in the movie, Bierce apparently had a soft spot for the idea of a grass-roots Mexican revolution, and left the U.S. to throw his lot as well as his not inconsiderable reputation behind it. After that, nothing is known about what became of Bierce, although the movie presents one theory about how he may have died, by getting involved with a tragic love triangle between a beautiful but estranged American woman (played by Jane Fonda), and a young Mexican general fighting for the revolution, played by Jimmy Smits. All the fireworks are certainly not all on the battlefield in this movie, and the tension between the three gradually but inexorably increases until the explosive climax. Overall, it's an unusual movie with fine performances by all three artists, and the only time that I know of that all three worked together. |
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