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Staring: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Cameron Mitchell
Director: Martin Ritt
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: NEWMAN,PAUL
EAN: 0024543042112
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-06-04
Running Time: 111
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1967-03-21

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John Russell (Paul Newman), a white man raised by a band of Arizona Apaches, is forced to confront the society he despises when he sells the boarding house his father has left him. While leaving town by stagecoach, several bigoted passengers insist he ride outside with the driver (Martin Balsam). But when outlaws leave them all stranded in the desert, Russell may be their only hope for survival! Diane Cilento, Frederic March, Richard Boone and Barbara Rush co-star in this action-packed Western classic.

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Paul Newman is the blue-eyed "savage," a white man raised by the Indians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, in Elmore Leonard's take on Stagecoach. It's not exactly Grand Hotel on wheels. The hypocrites, crooks, and racists Newman travels with cast him out of their polite company in the coach, then turn to him for salvation when outlaws hold up the stage and hunt them through the desert. It's hard to "like" Newman's cold, hard survivor, but you can't help but respect his cunning and his unsentimental directness. Fredric March is sweaty with corruption as a crooked Indian agent, and Richard Boone smiles his deadly charm as a lusty bad man. While this 1966 Western wears its social politics on its dusty sleeves, director Martin Ritt tempers the revisionist moral of the tale with a stripped-down ruthlessness befitting the rugged, unforgiving landscape. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

Excellent!, 2010-02-12
Excellent Western for Paul Newman.

Good script, good acting.

Yeah, this is one of those films you can watch over and over.

BAH, 2009-11-03

THE MOVIE MIGHT HAVE BEEN VERY GOOD BUT THE SOUND ON MY COPY

FROM CESIAED WAS SO BAD I THREW IT OUT.

A Film I Never Tire of Watching, 2009-11-06
From the start, John Russell is person who keeps to himself. A white man raised by Indians, waits to board a stagecoach. Soon things start happening and we begin to see Russell's character display a quiet discipline, but always with a minimum of words. The stagecoach carrying him and a few others gets robbed and they are stranded in the hot, dry and desolate wild country. The heart of the story is how the small group of stranded folks react to Russell as he makes decisions on how they are going to survive in this hostile land, with limited food and water. The ending is a classic and very well handled. A grisley Richard Boone is cast as the main bad guy along with David Canary and a Mexican. Boone's character's line to Russell during a standoff is great: "Well now, Just what do you think Hell is gonna be like?" I always find that after watching "Hombre", the story and images stay with me for quite a while. Hombre is one of Elmore Leonard's early books and this movie stays pretty close to what was written. Highly Recommended!

A powerful character-driven story and a bravo Newman performance, 2009-09-19
"Hombre" is basically an examination of how various types of people respond to intolerable stress and pressures. Paul Newman plays the lead role of an Anglo man who was raised from childhood as an Apache, but later adopted by a well-meaning Anglo who took him away from his Apache family. Newman considers himself to be an Apache for all of his later adaptation to Anglo society, and he is embittered by the treatment of the Apaches by the encroaching Anglos. The story involves a stagecoach ride across the desert in which the party is repeatedly subjected to choices. Each member of the group reacts differently, and Newman portrays his character with elan and insight. The supporting cast is excellent as well.

This one moves too slowly for some viewers, no doubt, but really every scene in the film contributes to the story, and this one held my interest throughout. Newman's formidable acting skills carry the film and this one should be enjoyed by anyone who likes Westerns, Paul Newman, or just a good character-driven story.

Decent first half, becomes relentlessly stupid in the 2nd half, 2009-10-19
If you like movies which don't make any sense, then you may like Hombre. However, if you prefer movies with logical plots, peopled with characters who behave like real human beings, you may not. There is some good dialogue, and the first half was a good setup for something...but when you find out what it is, you'll wonder why the bad guys couldn't have executed their plan a lot more simply. Add to that the fact that the good guys rarely kill the bad guys who want them dead when they have the chance (I guess we're supposed to think that this makes them "good" when all it makes them is stupid), and that bad guys get gut shot in the desert, have no water, but survive, along with several other totally illogical, impossible or idiotic beats, you'll wish you spent 2 hours doing laundry instead of watching this moronic tripe. Richard Boone is an enjoyable villain, but Newman, with his eastern accent, is unbelievable as a white man who lived most of his life with Apaches.

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