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Post by pimpinainteasy on Feb 11, 2019 6:08:02 GMT
a solid western from MARTIN RITT, based on an ELMORE LEONARD novel.
a white man (newman) who was brought up by the native indians inherits land. he has to travel in a stagecoach filled with people who hate him to reach the land. when some bandits try to rob the money held by one of the passengers, the apache white man swings into action to save the people who hate him.
no prizes for guessing where LEONARD's sympathies lie. this story is a scathing indictment of the weak and the middle class. and a celebration of the marginalized (newman) and men with raw strength (richard boone's bully character). boone has one of the best scenes in the film when he bullies another passenger out of a ticket at the waiting room.
the scenes inside the stagecoach have great dialog as the characters each other up. the characters are quite well fleshed out. though its a shame that a great actor like MARTIN BALSAM had to play such a weak second fiddle to NEWMAN. DIANE CILENTO plays a matronly but attractive woman who has different ideological face offs with NEWMAN's character. BARBARA RUSH is a racist dissatisfied wife to a cowardly scholar. MARGARET BYE is the femme fatale. the characters are quite well fleshed out for a film that is a little more than 90 minutes long.
the final tense face off with the coach passengers hiding in a shack on a hill and the bandits down below is the film's highlight.
(8/10)
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 11, 2019 10:10:33 GMT
great dialogue
great characters
great movie
9.5/10
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 11, 2019 12:40:28 GMT
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Post by kijii on Feb 11, 2019 14:51:30 GMT
a solid western from MARTIN RITT, based on an ELMORE LEONARD novel.
a white man (newman) who was brought up by the native indians inherits land. he has to travel in a stagecoach filled with people who hate him to reach the land. when some bandits try to rob the money held by one of the passengers, the apache white man swings into action to save the people who hate him.
no prizes for guessing where LEONARD's sympathies lie. this story is a scathing indictment of the weak and the middle class. and a celebration of the marginalized (newman) and men with raw strength (richard boone's bully character). boone has one of the best scenes in the film when he bullies another passenger out of a ticket at the waiting room.
the scenes inside the stagecoach have great dialog as the characters each other up. the characters are quite well fleshed out. though its a shame that a great actor like MARTIN BALSAM had to play such a weak second fiddle to NEWMAN. DIANE CILENTO plays a matronly but attractive woman who has different ideological face offs with NEWMAN's character. BARBARA RUSH is a racist dissatisfied wife to a cowardly scholar. MARGARET BYE is the femme fatale. the characters are quite well fleshed out for a film that is a little more than 90 minutes long.
the final tense face off with the coach passengers hiding in a shack on a hill and the bandits down below is the film's highlight. (8/10)
Great flick...I found it interesting while going through my Martin Ritt phase.
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 11, 2019 17:57:57 GMT
"ey hombre! You give me a bellyache!"
This is an all time favorite movie bar none...!!!!
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Feb 11, 2019 21:16:37 GMT
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 18, 2019 6:32:34 GMT
Hombre is probably both one of the most underrated Westerns of the 1960s and one of the most underrated movies in Paul Newman's filmography. It also reflects its mid-to-late sixties moment quite potently, both in terms of changing racial sensibilities and newfangled definitions of heroism. Martin Ritt's even-handed direction is effective, as is the caliber of Elmore Leonard's writing, but the movie is most notable for Newman's severely callous, alienated, and misanthropic performance—one of the most remarkable of his long career. Bracketed with Lee Marvin's stunning turn in Point Blank from that same year, along with some of Clint Eastwood's and Steve McQueen's menacingly laconic performances from that time period, Newman in Hombre signaled that the times were, indeed, a-changing. Simply put, the old morality and sentimentality were no longer sufficient, even in the Western genre.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 18, 2019 14:51:30 GMT
8/10.
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 18, 2019 15:11:59 GMT
Neat 1960's dialogue for 1880's story:
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"Because I can cut it, lady!"
"Guess I brought my dirty laundry down by mistake."
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Still a great movie.
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 18, 2019 16:35:34 GMT
Hombre: "Hey Grimes! How are you gonna get back down that hill?"
Grimes: "Now wait a minute, I came up here with a flag of truce!" (as Grimes proceeds to run back down the hill, Hombre puts several bullets in him)
Priceless…!!!
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Feb 20, 2019 6:45:12 GMT
Hombre is probably both one of the most underrated Westerns of the 1960s and one of the most underrated movies in Paul Newman's filmography. It also reflects its mid-to-late sixties moment quite potently, both in terms of changing racial sensibilities and newfangled definitions of heroism. Martin Ritt's even-handed direction is effective, as is the caliber of Elmore Leonard's writing, but the movie is most notable for Newman's severely callous, alienated, and misanthropic performance—one of the most remarkable of his long career. Bracketed with Lee Marvin's stunning turn in Point Blank from that same year, along with some of Clint Eastwood's and Steve McQueen's menacingly laconic performances from that time period, Newman in Hombre signaled that the times were, indeed, a-changing. Simply put, the old morality and sentimentality were no longer sufficient, even in the Western genre. well written. |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Feb 20, 2019 7:14:31 GMT
"I got a question. How you figurin' to get back down that hill?"
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Post by Staccato on Feb 20, 2019 16:06:57 GMT
I like it too.
The film reunited Barbara Rush and Cameron Mitchell from Ritt's "No Down Payment" (1957).
Rush is particularly fine.
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