What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?
Aug 22, 2019 17:57:56 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Aug 22, 2019 17:57:56 GMT
Nevada Smith 1966, directed by Henry Hathaway, based on a character and a chapter in Harrold Robbins novel "The Carpetbaggers", starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Raf Vallone, Janet Margolin, Pat Hingle, Howard Da Silva, Martin Landau, Paul Fix, Gene Evans, Josephine Hutchinson and others.
Western. When his (McQueen) father and mother are killed by three men (Malden, Kennedy, Landau) over gold, Nevada Smith (called Max Sand most of the movie) sets out to find them and kill them. The young man is taken in by a gun merchant (Keith). The gun merchant shows him how to shoot, to shoot on time, and to shoot straight. Everything that Nevada does goes to killing those three men. He learns to read and write just to learn their location. He pays people to tell him where they're at. He even goes to prison to kill one of them.
This is a good character driven western that divides it's time telling linked stories how Max Sand transforms into the more mature Nevada Smith, and the both good and the bad people he meets on the way. I've read some objections about McQueen's age as the character was supposed to be 16 y/o, though in the movie his age is only refered as "so young", but as the whole revenge probably takes several years to conclude, he ages gradually. He is indeed illiterate and immature, and don't know much about the world outside his mother and father's territory, in the beginning.
Director Hathaway was such a seasoned director he had no problem moving forward at a reasoble speed, taking time for the dramatic stops needed for the story to develop further. McQueen is surrounded by a great cast of actors and actresses, that only hightens the entertainment vallue.
Good solid entertaining western, that is just that, entertainment.
I had some problem in placing this tale in time, since some music sounded a bit too modern, in an early saloon scene a female unseen singer sings "Careless Love", a song I thought was written by W.C. Handy. In the movie's middlepart that takes place in Louisiana, some Dixieland music can be heard that sounded like it belonged to the 1910s.
Those are just minor matters I sometimes notices that amuses me, that doesn't take away anything from the movie in itself.
Western. When his (McQueen) father and mother are killed by three men (Malden, Kennedy, Landau) over gold, Nevada Smith (called Max Sand most of the movie) sets out to find them and kill them. The young man is taken in by a gun merchant (Keith). The gun merchant shows him how to shoot, to shoot on time, and to shoot straight. Everything that Nevada does goes to killing those three men. He learns to read and write just to learn their location. He pays people to tell him where they're at. He even goes to prison to kill one of them.
This is a good character driven western that divides it's time telling linked stories how Max Sand transforms into the more mature Nevada Smith, and the both good and the bad people he meets on the way. I've read some objections about McQueen's age as the character was supposed to be 16 y/o, though in the movie his age is only refered as "so young", but as the whole revenge probably takes several years to conclude, he ages gradually. He is indeed illiterate and immature, and don't know much about the world outside his mother and father's territory, in the beginning.
Director Hathaway was such a seasoned director he had no problem moving forward at a reasoble speed, taking time for the dramatic stops needed for the story to develop further. McQueen is surrounded by a great cast of actors and actresses, that only hightens the entertainment vallue.
Good solid entertaining western, that is just that, entertainment.
I had some problem in placing this tale in time, since some music sounded a bit too modern, in an early saloon scene a female unseen singer sings "Careless Love", a song I thought was written by W.C. Handy. In the movie's middlepart that takes place in Louisiana, some Dixieland music can be heard that sounded like it belonged to the 1910s.
Those are just minor matters I sometimes notices that amuses me, that doesn't take away anything from the movie in itself.