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Staring:
Paul Newman,
Fredric March,
Richard Boone,
Diane Cilento,
Cameron Mitchell
Director:
Martin Ritt
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List Price: $14.98
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Fox
EAN: 0024543042112
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-05-22
Running Time: 111
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1967-03-21 |
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Description
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
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 very good film, 2010-07-04
good story . great cast . well written , acted and edited . great letterboxed aspect ratio . english subtitles . highly recommended .
I was there!, 2010-05-11
I was in Tucson and the cast and crew were living in a hotel owned by my family. I got to see the filming and the cast was all at my house for a party. All nice people. I never saw the film until recently and I liked it. James Wong How and his wife Sanora became close friends and he started my interest in photography... which I still do to this day. I just last week found a business card from Auther Newman with written instructions to allow us on the set at Old Tucson to observe the filming. Forgot I had it. Great film!
Nice viewing., 2010-08-28
My wife and I have watched a lot of Clint Eastwood western movies, and we've enjoyed them very much. For a little diversion we picked up a few Paul Newman westerns and "Hombre" was one of them. We watched it a few nights ago and it was excellent.
In this movie, Paul Newman plays a a white man that was raised by the Indians. Of course he doesn't fit either society. He's a blue-eyed white man but experiences all the prejudice directed toward Indians. In one part of the movie, he is forced to ride outside a stage coach rather than inside with the other passengers. It's rather pathetic. Then after the stage is held up the passengers find themselves dependent on this man they have shown contempt for. It's an interesting proposition. Very worthwhile and thought provoking. The acting and supporting cast are first rate. The scenery and cinematography are fine. It's an excellent movie. Nice viewing.
Gary Peterson
Native Newman, 2010-04-25
Before Get Shorty ushered in a golden age of big screen Elmore Leonard adaptations, he'd always bemoaned how Hollywood brought his stories to the screen. It seems to me several of his westerns -- 3:10 to Yuma, Valdez is Coming and Joe Kidd, are really pretty good. Perhaps best of all from this period may be the 1967 film of his novel Hombre which is a taut and timeless character Western.
The picture starts out with raised-by-Apaches white man John Russell, played by Paul Newman, returning to "civilization" in order to settle accounts when his wealthy benefactor has died. Paul's decked out in a long black wig and en route he sucker-punches David Canary in a rundown cantina where Canary is humiliating some native Americans. Once he's settled business in town, and newly shorn, Paul promptly leaves. To do that he must ride out on a special stage run by Martin Balsam and commissioned for prominent Indian affairs government figure Fredric March and his high-class wife Barbara Rush. Also waiting to catch the stage is the earthy, boarding-housekeeper played by Diane Cilento (Mrs. Sean Connery at the time) who Newman has put out of work when he sold her house.
Into the station walks Richard Boone and one close-up is pretty much all you need to read malevolence in his every thought and gesture. He's heading out of town as well, and starts to bully Newman to give up his seat. When a nice-guy soldier sticks up for Paul, Boone turns his attention on him, and through sheer force of his brute affect, the soldier gives up his own ticket without a gun being pulled or a punch thrown. Paul just sits there, and we now know that he'll employ heroics to go to bat for the Apache, but he doesn't care any for the white man.
The stage arrives and the second half of the story starts -- anything more would be a spoiler. But you're left wondering -- who are these two guys and what are they about? You can't imagine a greater pair of antagonists than Paul with his effortless ease and charm (even when he's being laconic) and Boone who is a big ugly sucker you can't take your eyes off. The others in the cast are also good -- especially legendary stage and screen star March and Cilento who shares some marvelously written exchanges with Newman that get at the heart of this Indian's beef with The Man.
Even while the accent may be on characterization here, when the action starts you'll tax the edge of your seat. The climax is thrilling and topped off by a classic final line delivered by Balsam. I can't believe that Leonard had a problem with this picture. It's sensational.
This Western deserves to be reconsidered as a classic -- it certainly stands up with some of Newman's best work from this period.
"Hombre" - Great story and movie, 2010-05-22
Elmore Leonard is one of my favorite story tellers and "Hombre" is one of his best. With his always interesting characters brought to life by a cast of great actors, I highly recommend this film.
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