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The Long Riders
1980 - R - 1:40
MGM/UA Home Video
Western
Directed by Walter Hill
Starring:
David Carradine
Keith Carradine
Robert Carradine
James Keach
Stacy Keach
Dennis Quaid
Randy Quaid
Christopher Guest
Nicholas Guest
It's never been done before! Four theatrical families of the 1980's recreate the most wanted criminal families of the 1860's: Stacy and James Keach, David, Keith and Robert Carradine, Randy and Dennis Quaid, and Christopher and Nicholas Guest - united here in Walter Hill's portrayal of the Jesse James gang. The fraternal cast breathes a fiery new life into these folk heroes in a film that "excites in the way that movies used to when we were younger" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker), where the action comes in a rapid-fire succession of thrilling moments: the bandits' lightning attacks on banks, trains and stagecoaches; their hairbreadth escapes from the law; Jessie's jubilant wedding celebration (set to Ry Cooder's rousing country music); and the tragic Great Northfield, Minnesota, raid (intensified by Ric Waite's spectacular cinematography). "The best directed American movie of the year" (David Denby, New York) is also "heroic folk romance as well as it has ever been done...This picture will be remembered" (Pauline Kael).
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