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- Great riding, gorgeous scenery, full characters
- When Comes The End Of This Movie?
- Comes a Horseman
- Dark and hauting western.very underated
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Comes a Horseman
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Jane Fonda ,
Jason Robards ,
George Grizzard , and
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ASIN: B00005LOL4
Release Date: 2001-09-04 |
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Richard Farnsworth received an Oscar nomination for this 1978 film, directed by the late Alan J. Pakula. He plays an aging ranch hand in the late 1940s, working for Jane Fonda. She's being pressured by her greedy neighbor, Jason Robards, to sell him her land--this after he has had her father murdered to expedite the sale. Robards wants the land because he knows it's full of oil, but he's not about to tell her that. Rather, he relentlessly strong-arms her and the rest of his neighbors, resorting to violence and killing when he doesn't get his way, knowing he's already bought the cooperation of the law. But Fonda, aided by returning World War II veteran and cowpuncher James Caan, stands up to Robards, setting off an almost biblically violent confrontation. Comes a Horseman was sumptuously photographed by Gordon Willis, who captures the true sweep of the wide open spaces, and strong acting overcomes what charitably could be described as a stately pace. As for Farnsworth, he brings a tastily understated quality to the role of the old cowpoke who knows he's signed on for his last roundup but has the grit to stick it out. --Marshall Fine
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Jane Fonda and James Caan give stirring performances as an unlikely couple forced to fight for possession of their land in this sweeping and "enormously beautiful" (Newsweek) modern-day western. Comes A Horseman is an unforgettable saga of unrelenting action, adventure and romance on the American frontier. When a lovely widow (Fonda) is pressured to sell her failing cattleranch to her unscrupulous and powerful ex-lover (Jason Robards), she enlists the aid of an antagonistic neighbor (Caan) in a desperate attempt to restore the ranch's fortunes. With great skill and determination, the duo struggle to rope enough cattle to pay off their debts...but their problems are just beginning. Driven by a deep-felt rage against their adversaryand a growing affection for each otherthey stand tall against stampedes, betrayal and sabotage...and triumph with shotguns blazing in a dramatic climax of nerve-shattering intensity.
Customer Reviews:
Slow and predictable..........2007-08-24
...but great cinematography. This film is beautiful to look at, but you can't help but know what's going to happen before it happens. Robards character is nothing more than a big baby who literally throws hissy-fits when he doesn't get his way. The idea that this man is free to just kill who he wants whenever he wants-including bankers-is a little extreme. In the climatic scene-you can help but wonder how on earth this man thought he was going be able to get away with what he was doing? Getting rid of Julia no longer benefited him. He didn't owe the land. The bank did. And getting rid of the banker doesn't get rid of the bank. Silly. Still I liked Dodger, though you knew his number was up the minute he showed on the screen. I can't really recommend the movie, because I wasn't overly impressed with any other performance and the script was written by someone who apparently sleep walks.
Great riding, gorgeous scenery, full characters.......2007-08-18
The story is about a sweeping passion that you don't see much anymore --the grab for land, the insistence that a way of life stays the same.
This movie is additionally noteworthy because it garnered the late actor Richard Farnsworth an Academy Award nomination for his part as the steady and honest "Dodger." Farnsworth turns in a fine performance that is plainly and comfortably delivered.
Fonda does a great job playing the part of a tough, unsentimental, and unlikeable but tenacious hard scrabble landowner --a rarity in today's wanna-be-liked movie making machinery. Caan matches her character with an easy going but as hard driving manner, and Robards is an example of menace by long stare. The pacing of the movie is slower than anything made today, so wrap your head round 1978 and just take it in.
One of the greatest reasons to watch this movie is the horsemanship. There's some hard riding here, exemplary riding of the sort you don't see as much these days. Farnsworth had a wonderful riding style, straight and graceful. When you see him in the saddle, you miss him. Iconic, you realize how much he carried all the Westerns made from 1937 and on. This is one of those movies where the three leads seem to be easy with horses.
For sure, there were things that could have been done to give it more authenticity. But that's not how they did the Western in 1978. So to complain about it now is futile. This would make a great movie to remake if only they could find some actors who really knew how to ride like Farnsworth, Fonda & Caan.
Awards 1978:
Richard Farnsworth, Best Supporting Actor Winner--National Board of Review,
National Society of Film Critics; USA, Best Actor Nominee, Academy Awards, USA.
Jane Fonda --Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Award
Dennis Lynton Clark--Best Movie Script, Wester Writers of America
Western Horseman Magazine
Cowboys & Indians Magazine
The Cowboy Kind Book with a Forward by Richard Farnsworth
The Straight Story Movie with Richard Farnsworth, for which he garned a Best Actor Nomination
The Grey Fox starring Richard Farnsworth
When Comes The End Of This Movie?.......2006-09-23
This is a very tedious movie about a female rancher played by Jane Fonda who is trying to eek out a living. At the same time she is trying to atone for fornicating with THE BAD GUY which broke her daddy's heart.So she kinda has her hands full. Then James Cann arrives all shot up and she has to be a nurse too!Then the two of them along with their elderly ranch hand try to drive cattle and make a good sale.This movie is only redeemed by the wonderful performance of veteran actor Richard Farnsworth who I understand started his career as a stuntman. J.R. Ewing's Daddy is also in thus movie with the unlikely name of "Julie".
Comes a Horseman.......2004-09-25
COMES A HORSEMAN is a romance wrapped in a western. The local cattle baron (Jason Robards) wants to drive out rancher Jane Fonda, who has hired on local wrangler James Caan to help her make it through one more hard year. Complicating things in this World War II era tale is the oil company that wants everybody's land.
With some truly beautiful wide angle photography, a plethora of establishing shots and a dearth of tight close ups, COMES A HORSEMAN is an more an actor's than an editor's movie that works as well as it does because it has an excellent cast at the top of their game. Director Alan Pakula often pulls the camera back and allows his actors room to discover their character and the meaning of the scene.
I only had two problems with this movie. I felt the ending, the final confrontation between bad guy Robards and good gal Fonda, was a bit contrived . The other problem was a puzzler - weren't their any doctors in cattle country America in 1945? A couple of characters get busted up pretty badly in the course of things and they're dumped into a bed with a damp handkerchief on the forehead with nary a doctor in sight. It didn't bother me much when Caan was laid up without professional medical care, but I hated to see poor Dodger (Richard Farnsworth) treated in such a manner.
Dark and hauting western.very underated.......2002-10-18
This is another fine example of a very underated film release during late 70s ,starring the legendary James Caan , the always superb Jane Fonda and jason Robard in a truly great villian role.They dont make this kind of film anymore.Buy the DVD and judge yourself.Dont expect to see a slam bang action western,there is a fist fight and gun fight but fast and stylishly done by the director.A cinematic masterpiece
Average customer rating:
- Slow and predictable...
- Great riding, gorgeous scenery, full characters
- When Comes The End Of This Movie?
- Comes a Horseman
- Dark and hauting western.very underated
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Comes a Horseman
Starring:
James Caan ,
Jane Fonda ,
Jason Robards ,
George Grizzard , and
Richard Farnsworth
Director:
Alan J. Pakula
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Last Stand at Saber River
ASIN: 6304429681
Release Date: 1997-04-01 |
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Richard Farnsworth received an Oscar nomination for this 1978 film, directed by the late Alan J. Pakula. He plays an aging ranch hand in the late 1940s, working for Jane Fonda. She's being pressured by her greedy neighbor, Jason Robards, to sell him her land--this after he has had her father murdered to expedite the sale. Robards wants the land because he knows it's full of oil, but he's not about to tell her that. Rather, he relentlessly strong-arms her and the rest of his neighbors, resorting to violence and killing when he doesn't get his way, knowing he's already bought the cooperation of the law. But Fonda, aided by returning World War II veteran and cowpuncher James Caan, stands up to Robards, setting off an almost biblically violent confrontation. Comes a Horseman was sumptuously photographed by Gordon Willis, who captures the true sweep of the wide open spaces, and strong acting overcomes what charitably could be described as a stately pace. As for Farnsworth, he brings a tastily understated quality to the role of the old cowpoke who knows he's signed on for his last roundup but has the grit to stick it out. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews:
Slow and predictable..........2007-08-24
...but great cinematography. This film is beautiful to look at, but you can't help but know what's going to happen before it happens. Robards character is nothing more than a big baby who literally throws hissy-fits when he doesn't get his way. The idea that this man is free to just kill who he wants whenever he wants-including bankers-is a little extreme. In the climatic scene-you can help but wonder how on earth this man thought he was going be able to get away with what he was doing? Getting rid of Julia no longer benefited him. He didn't owe the land. The bank did. And getting rid of the banker doesn't get rid of the bank. Silly. Still I liked Dodger, though you knew his number was up the minute he showed on the screen. I can't really recommend the movie, because I wasn't overly impressed with any other performance and the script was written by someone who apparently sleep walks.
Great riding, gorgeous scenery, full characters.......2007-08-18
The story is about a sweeping passion that you don't see much anymore --the grab for land, the insistence that a way of life stays the same.
This movie is additionally noteworthy because it garnered the late actor Richard Farnsworth an Academy Award nomination for his part as the steady and honest "Dodger." Farnsworth turns in a fine performance that is plainly and comfortably delivered.
Fonda does a great job playing the part of a tough, unsentimental, and unlikeable but tenacious hard scrabble landowner --a rarity in today's wanna-be-liked movie making machinery. Caan matches her character with an easy going but as hard driving manner, and Robards is an example of menace by long stare. The pacing of the movie is slower than anything made today, so wrap your head round 1978 and just take it in.
One of the greatest reasons to watch this movie is the horsemanship. There's some hard riding here, exemplary riding of the sort you don't see as much these days. Farnsworth had a wonderful riding style, straight and graceful. When you see him in the saddle, you miss him. Iconic, you realize how much he carried all the Westerns made from 1937 and on. This is one of those movies where the three leads seem to be easy with horses.
For sure, there were things that could have been done to give it more authenticity. But that's not how they did the Western in 1978. So to complain about it now is futile. This would make a great movie to remake if only they could find some actors who really knew how to ride like Farnsworth, Fonda & Caan.
Awards 1978:
Richard Farnsworth, Best Supporting Actor Winner--National Board of Review,
National Society of Film Critics; USA, Best Actor Nominee, Academy Awards, USA.
Jane Fonda --Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Award
Dennis Lynton Clark--Best Movie Script, Wester Writers of America
Western Horseman Magazine
Cowboys & Indians Magazine
The Cowboy Kind Book with a Forward by Richard Farnsworth
The Straight Story Movie with Richard Farnsworth, for which he garned a Best Actor Nomination
The Grey Fox starring Richard Farnsworth
When Comes The End Of This Movie?.......2006-09-23
This is a very tedious movie about a female rancher played by Jane Fonda who is trying to eek out a living. At the same time she is trying to atone for fornicating with THE BAD GUY which broke her daddy's heart.So she kinda has her hands full. Then James Cann arrives all shot up and she has to be a nurse too!Then the two of them along with their elderly ranch hand try to drive cattle and make a good sale.This movie is only redeemed by the wonderful performance of veteran actor Richard Farnsworth who I understand started his career as a stuntman. J.R. Ewing's Daddy is also in thus movie with the unlikely name of "Julie".
Comes a Horseman.......2004-09-25
COMES A HORSEMAN is a romance wrapped in a western. The local cattle baron (Jason Robards) wants to drive out rancher Jane Fonda, who has hired on local wrangler James Caan to help her make it through one more hard year. Complicating things in this World War II era tale is the oil company that wants everybody's land.
With some truly beautiful wide angle photography, a plethora of establishing shots and a dearth of tight close ups, COMES A HORSEMAN is an more an actor's than an editor's movie that works as well as it does because it has an excellent cast at the top of their game. Director Alan Pakula often pulls the camera back and allows his actors room to discover their character and the meaning of the scene.
I only had two problems with this movie. I felt the ending, the final confrontation between bad guy Robards and good gal Fonda, was a bit contrived . The other problem was a puzzler - weren't their any doctors in cattle country America in 1945? A couple of characters get busted up pretty badly in the course of things and they're dumped into a bed with a damp handkerchief on the forehead with nary a doctor in sight. It didn't bother me much when Caan was laid up without professional medical care, but I hated to see poor Dodger (Richard Farnsworth) treated in such a manner.
Dark and hauting western.very underated.......2002-10-18
This is another fine example of a very underated film release during late 70s ,starring the legendary James Caan , the always superb Jane Fonda and jason Robard in a truly great villian role.They dont make this kind of film anymore.Buy the DVD and judge yourself.Dont expect to see a slam bang action western,there is a fist fight and gun fight but fast and stylishly done by the director.A cinematic masterpiece
Average customer rating:
- Slow and predictable...
- Great riding, gorgeous scenery, full characters
- When Comes The End Of This Movie?
- Comes a Horseman
- Dark and hauting western.very underated
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Jane Fonda ,
Jason Robards ,
George Grizzard , and
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The Electric Horseman
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Broken Trail
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Crossfire Trail
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Last Stand at Saber River
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Release Date: 1997-04-01 |
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Richard Farnsworth received an Oscar nomination for this 1978 film, directed by the late Alan J. Pakula. He plays an aging ranch hand in the late 1940s, working for Jane Fonda. She's being pressured by her greedy neighbor, Jason Robards, to sell him her land--this after he has had her father murdered to expedite the sale. Robards wants the land because he knows it's full of oil, but he's not about to tell her that. Rather, he relentlessly strong-arms her and the rest of his neighbors, resorting to violence and killing when he doesn't get his way, knowing he's already bought the cooperation of the law. But Fonda, aided by returning World War II veteran and cowpuncher James Caan, stands up to Robards, setting off an almost biblically violent confrontation. Comes a Horseman was sumptuously photographed by Gordon Willis, who captures the true sweep of the wide open spaces, and strong acting overcomes what charitably could be described as a stately pace. As for Farnsworth, he brings a tastily understated quality to the role of the old cowpoke who knows he's signed on for his last roundup but has the grit to stick it out. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews:
Slow and predictable..........2007-08-24
...but great cinematography. This film is beautiful to look at, but you can't help but know what's going to happen before it happens. Robards character is nothing more than a big baby who literally throws hissy-fits when he doesn't get his way. The idea that this man is free to just kill who he wants whenever he wants-including bankers-is a little extreme. In the climatic scene-you can help but wonder how on earth this man thought he was going be able to get away with what he was doing? Getting rid of Julia no longer benefited him. He didn't owe the land. The bank did. And getting rid of the banker doesn't get rid of the bank. Silly. Still I liked Dodger, though you knew his number was up the minute he showed on the screen. I can't really recommend the movie, because I wasn't overly impressed with any other performance and the script was written by someone who apparently sleep walks.
Great riding, gorgeous scenery, full characters.......2007-08-18
The story is about a sweeping passion that you don't see much anymore --the grab for land, the insistence that a way of life stays the same.
This movie is additionally noteworthy because it garnered the late actor Richard Farnsworth an Academy Award nomination for his part as the steady and honest "Dodger." Farnsworth turns in a fine performance that is plainly and comfortably delivered.
Fonda does a great job playing the part of a tough, unsentimental, and unlikeable but tenacious hard scrabble landowner --a rarity in today's wanna-be-liked movie making machinery. Caan matches her character with an easy going but as hard driving manner, and Robards is an example of menace by long stare. The pacing of the movie is slower than anything made today, so wrap your head round 1978 and just take it in.
One of the greatest reasons to watch this movie is the horsemanship. There's some hard riding here, exemplary riding of the sort you don't see as much these days. Farnsworth had a wonderful riding style, straight and graceful. When you see him in the saddle, you miss him. Iconic, you realize how much he carried all the Westerns made from 1937 and on. This is one of those movies where the three leads seem to be easy with horses.
For sure, there were things that could have been done to give it more authenticity. But that's not how they did the Western in 1978. So to complain about it now is futile. This would make a great movie to remake if only they could find some actors who really knew how to ride like Farnsworth, Fonda & Caan.
Awards 1978:
Richard Farnsworth, Best Supporting Actor Winner--National Board of Review,
National Society of Film Critics; USA, Best Actor Nominee, Academy Awards, USA.
Jane Fonda --Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Award
Dennis Lynton Clark--Best Movie Script, Wester Writers of America
Western Horseman Magazine
Cowboys & Indians Magazine
The Cowboy Kind Book with a Forward by Richard Farnsworth
The Straight Story Movie with Richard Farnsworth, for which he garned a Best Actor Nomination
The Grey Fox starring Richard Farnsworth
When Comes The End Of This Movie?.......2006-09-23
This is a very tedious movie about a female rancher played by Jane Fonda who is trying to eek out a living. At the same time she is trying to atone for fornicating with THE BAD GUY which broke her daddy's heart.So she kinda has her hands full. Then James Cann arrives all shot up and she has to be a nurse too!Then the two of them along with their elderly ranch hand try to drive cattle and make a good sale.This movie is only redeemed by the wonderful performance of veteran actor Richard Farnsworth who I understand started his career as a stuntman. J.R. Ewing's Daddy is also in thus movie with the unlikely name of "Julie".
Comes a Horseman.......2004-09-25
COMES A HORSEMAN is a romance wrapped in a western. The local cattle baron (Jason Robards) wants to drive out rancher Jane Fonda, who has hired on local wrangler James Caan to help her make it through one more hard year. Complicating things in this World War II era tale is the oil company that wants everybody's land.
With some truly beautiful wide angle photography, a plethora of establishing shots and a dearth of tight close ups, COMES A HORSEMAN is an more an actor's than an editor's movie that works as well as it does because it has an excellent cast at the top of their game. Director Alan Pakula often pulls the camera back and allows his actors room to discover their character and the meaning of the scene.
I only had two problems with this movie. I felt the ending, the final confrontation between bad guy Robards and good gal Fonda, was a bit contrived . The other problem was a puzzler - weren't their any doctors in cattle country America in 1945? A couple of characters get busted up pretty badly in the course of things and they're dumped into a bed with a damp handkerchief on the forehead with nary a doctor in sight. It didn't bother me much when Caan was laid up without professional medical care, but I hated to see poor Dodger (Richard Farnsworth) treated in such a manner.
Dark and hauting western.very underated.......2002-10-18
This is another fine example of a very underated film release during late 70s ,starring the legendary James Caan , the always superb Jane Fonda and jason Robard in a truly great villian role.They dont make this kind of film anymore.Buy the DVD and judge yourself.Dont expect to see a slam bang action western,there is a fist fight and gun fight but fast and stylishly done by the director.A cinematic masterpiece
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