Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

rodrig58 Beautiful music signed Bruce Langhorne. Otherwise, the film does not say much. Because it's not happen much. And what is happening, is not at all justified. Why is shot Dan Griffen (Robert Pratt), the young companion of Harry Collings (Peter Fonda) and Arch Harris (Warren Oates)? Nobody knows. Then, why is taken prisoner Arch Harris? I wonder if the writer Alan Sharp knew. I doubt it. Warren Oates is a very good actor. But here he does not have much to do. Peter Fonda is just the son of his father(Henry Fonda, for those who don't know) and the brother of his sister(Jane Fonda). I think he wanted to look like Clint Eastwood in those movies with dollars, but without being a Western. All the fault of the same Sergio Leone. But, how many people know or realize that?

Jackson Booth-Millard I would never have found this film if it wasn't for it featuring in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, it had good reviews and a good leading cast, so I hoped it would be worth it, directed by Easy Rider producer, writer and star Peter Fonda. Basically saddle tramps Harry Collings (Peter Fonda) and Arch Harris (Warren Oates) have been wandering through the American Southwest for seven years, and have grown weary. Alongside younger companion Dan Griffen (Robert Pratt) they stop in the middle of nowhere in the ramshackle town of Del Norte, which is run by the corrupt McVey (Severn Darden). Harris and Griffen discuss travelling to California for work, but Collins informs them abruptly he will be returning to his wife who he left behind years ago. Griffen leaves the two in a bar temporarily to go and buy supplies, but he is shot dead, out of pure meanness, by town thugs, Collings and Harris escape, but return at night and McVey is crippled by Collings shooting him. Collings rides hundreds of miles back to his old house, his wife Hannah (Verna Bloom) gives him a cold welcome, but to be allowed to stay he offers his services as a "hired hand", she agrees and quickly puts him to work. Gradually distrust and unease caused from years of being apart slips away, Collings and Hannah become close again, Collings is willing to settle down for the first time, but Harris wants to leaves and "see the ocean". McVey and his gang of hooligans return and interrupt, they kidnap Harris, forcing Collings to leave Hannah again to save his friend, a subsequent brutal shootout between him and the gang takes place, all the villains are killed, but Collings is fatally wounded, and Harris rides alone back to Hannah's house. Also starring Robert Pratt as Dan Griffen, Ted Markland as Luke, Owen Orr as Mace, Gray Johnson as Will, Rita Rogers as Mexican Woman and Al Hopson as Bartender, and Dallas's Larry Hagman as Sheriff (depending which version you are watching). Fonda is good both acting and directing, Oates does well, and Bloom makes an impression in her time on screen, I will admit I agree this is not the traditional film in the genre, there are less gun filled sequences, horse chases and general action, it is certainly more talky than anything else, but it is interesting in its own right, a worthwhile western. Good!

christopher-underwood Released two years before Terence Mallick's first film, Badlands and the same year as McCabe and Mrs. Miller, this is an exceptional film and if it has alluded me for over 40 years, there are probably others for whom this magical experience awaits. Maybe one too many sunsets, but they are amazing, and one too many double dissolves, but they seem like perfection and this brilliantly photographed, performed and directed movie seizes ones attention from the very start, without credits, and holds it until the enigmatic ending. Great script, very well handled by Fonda, Oates and Bloom and if the story is slight, it is powerful, thoughtful and ever engaging. Beautiful.

ravingdave0 There has never been a score for a motion-picture so spare, so haunting, so unforgettably disquieting as this one. Amazingly, it was composed and performed by one man, Bruce Langhorne, who recorded and layered the tracks in his home studio, playing every instrument himself: a 1920 Martin guitar; an Appalachian dulcimer; a fiddle; a five-string banjo; a wooden soprano recorder; a Honer Marine Band harmonica, along with a Farfisa organ and the nearly-forgotten Echoplex.At this writing, August 23, 2007, Langhorne is very ill from a stroke and Diabetes complications and without medical insurance. Director Jonathan Demme has an online site for donations to help defray Langhorne's medical expenses: a Google search for "Demme"+"Langhorne" will guide you there. I am neither a friend nor family member, only a fan of the incredibly talented musician Bob Dylan dubbed "Mr. Tambourine Man".