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The Long Riders [DVD] [1980]

Staring: David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Dennis Quaid, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine
Director: Walter Hill
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Product Details
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050070006513
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dubbed, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: MGM Entertainment
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: 2001-06-11
Running Time: 95
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1980-05-16

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Editorial Review
Amazon.co.uk Review
This terrific Walter Hill Western follows the careers of the James and Younger brothers--and uses the nifty idea of casting actual clans of acting siblings in the roles. Thus, the James brothers are played by James and Stacy Keach; the Youngers by David, Keith, and Robert Carradine; the Millers by Randy and Dennis Quaid; and the Fords by Christopher and Nicholas Guest. Hill, working with an evocative Ry Cooder score, creates a film that is at once breathtakingly exciting and elegiac in its treatment of these post-Civil War outlaws. The Keaches in particular bring a surprising dignity to the roles of Frank and Jesse James, while David Carradine is a hoot as Cole Younger--and the Quaids mimic real life (as it was for them then) in their battles as the Miller brothers. Bloody, to be sure, but also bloody good. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews

outstanding western epic, 2009-04-22
A good few risks were taken when making this. Real life brothers were used to dipict the four sets of brothers which the film, in the main, revolves around.

Stacey and James Keech play Frank and Jesse James. David, Keith and Robert Carodine, play Cole, Jim and Bob Younger. Dennis and Randy Quaid play Ed and Clel Miller. The on screen chemistry really does work, as all performing rather convincingly in their roles. Within the gang, Jesse James and Cole Younger, who don't always see eye to eye, are cold and calculating.

The film follows the fortunes of this famous gang of bank robbers as they try to stay one step ahead on the Pinkertons. Some of the action is quite brutal, other parts are quite spectacular. The famous Belle Star is the romantic interest for Cole Younger (David Carodine), for which the consequence is a showdown with her new husband, Sam Starr, a giant knife wielding indian. You certainly will not forget this scene in a hurry.

There are shootouts a plenty, in particular the one near the end of the film, where the gang fall into a trap set by the town authorities.

So, in the main, spectacular, exciting and very realistic. The Guest Brothers play the slimy and treacherous Bob and Charlie Ford.

Good movie...but why the cuts?!, 2007-10-12
I`ve watched this movie in its entirety several times in the last few months; and I`ve skipped forward and watched the Northfield sequence so many times I`ve lost count. I would recommend you get a copy of this underrated and unique Western.

Just one quibble, though. I discovered only recently, when the movie was shown on tv, that the scene where Bob Younger(Robert Carradine) and horse stumble and fall has been deleted on the DVD - and also, the scene in which the horses crash through the second pane of glass and stumble and fall, has been shortened, presumably because the censors deem it politicaly incorrect to show the horses being injured. It`s somewhat ironic, then, that a national television channel can show the movie without cuts, and yet the DVD has been cut. (And what about the Grand National, where horses inevitably get injured and have to be `put down`, and all for the sake of sport...which is shown live on tv every year...) Every time I watch that part of the movie, I find it so frustrating that it`s been cut. There may be other cuts as well, because that was the only part of the (original, uncut)movie I watched when it was shown on tv.

...Ouch!, 2008-05-26
Well....smack my backside with five planks o'Carolina pine (Messrs Keach & Carradine). This folks is what happens when you get a bunch of mediocre tv actors who never really had what it took to carry a movie on the big screen and put them in a movie on the big screen.

I expected so much more from this. What with the ensemble of brothers and all. But the quality just isn't there. Of course the Quaids are great but they're barely given a chance. This is clearly a labour of love for the Keach's, they executive produced it, co-wrote it and spend much of the time vying for center stage with the Carradines (!?!). Having seen the Wagner and Pitt films on this subject matter recently (see reviews) I have to say that this comes in a poor third. I couldn't make out if the Northfield shootout was an amateurish homage to Peckinpah or a bad imitation as a last ditch attempt to somehow improve the piece.

If you're a fan of the line-up then this'll be your tv heaven. If not -it'll be a hellish experience that'll take some time to recover from. ....I'm over it now. ....But don't say I didn't warn you. Adios.

You'll love the sequel, 2010-03-12
I totally agree with the laudatives on "the Long Riders".....and also the few minor restrictiions. Similarly to some viewers in this forum, I've seen it several times, and plan to do so in future.
I wanted to point out that those who loved this movie MUST also see "The Assassination of J.James by the Coward R.Ford", an introspective/active development of how the Ford brothers were led from admiration for J.James to his assassination.
You'll love it.

Enjoyable but it lacks pace and something memorable, 2009-04-21
The Long Riders is a film about the James-Younger gang who were outlaws in Missouri after the American Civil War. It is an enjoyable film but having heard about it and read reviews of it calling the film an underrated modern classic it was disappointing. The action sequences are very good but the film itself struggles due to a cast that don't seem to be able to create interesting characters, a storyline which lacks pace and direction plus it continually jumps around all over the place. All in all a promising idea which is let down badly in its execution.