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Will Penny
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Director:
Writer:
Tom Gries (writer)
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Release Date:
10 April 1968 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Tagline:
The Brute in Everyman Was Also in Him - And the Love and the Violence
Plot:
Aging cowboy Will Penny gets a line camp job on a large cattle spread and finds his isolated cabin is already occupied by a husbandless woman and her young son. Full summary » | Add synopsis »
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Awards:
1 win See more »
NewsDesk:
(5 articles)
Gd Spradlin obituary
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 16 August 2011, 7:27 AM, PDT)

Walter Seltzer obituary
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 5 April 2011, 4:06 PM, PDT)

Behind The Scenes With Charlton Heston On "Will Penny"
 (From CinemaRetro. 30 July 2010, 3:31 PM, PDT)

User Reviews:
Superb film. See more (47 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)

Charlton Heston ... Will Penny
Joan Hackett ... Catherine Allen

Donald Pleasence ... Preacher Quint

Lee Majors ... Blue

Bruce Dern ... Rafe Quint

Ben Johnson ... Alex (Flat Iron Ranch foreman)

Slim Pickens ... Ike Walterstein

Clifton James ... Catron

Anthony Zerbe ... Dutchy
Roy Jenson ... Boetius Sullivan

G.D. Spradlin ... Anse Howard
Quentin Dean ... Jennie

William Schallert ... Dr. Fraker
Lydia Clarke ... Mrs. Fraker
Robert Luster ... Shem Bodine
Dal Jenkins ... Sambo
Matt Clark ... Romulus Quint
Luke Askew ... Foxy
Anthony Costello ... Bigfoot
Gene Rutherford ... Rufus Quint
Chanin Hale ... Girl

Jon Gries ... Horace (button) (as Jon Francis)
Stephen Edwards ... Town boy
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Directed by
Tom Gries 
 
Writing credits
Tom Gries (writer)

Produced by
Fred Engel .... producer
Walter Seltzer .... producer
 
Original Music by
David Raksin 
 
Cinematography by
Lucien Ballard 
 
Film Editing by
Warren Low 
 
Art Direction by
Roland Anderson 
Hal Pereira 
 
Set Decoration by
Robert R. Benton  (as Robert Benton)
Ray Moyer 
 
Makeup Department
Charles Blackman .... makeup artist
Nellie Manley .... hair styles supervisor
Hedy Mjorud .... hair stylist (as Hedvig Mjorud)
Wally Westmore .... makeup supervisor
 
Production Management
C. Kenneth Deland .... unit production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Daniel McCauley .... assistant director (as Daniel J. McCauley)
 
Art Department
Gene Lauritzen .... construction coordinator (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
John R. Carter .... sound recordist (as John Carter)
John Wilkinson .... sound recordist
 
Visual Effects by
Paul K. Lerpae .... special photographic effects
 
Stunts
Calvin Brown .... stunts (uncredited)
Joe Canutt .... stunt coordinator (uncredited)
Ross Dollarhyde .... stunts (uncredited)
Jerry Gatlin .... stunts (uncredited)
Rock A. Walker .... stunts (uncredited)
Jack Williams .... stunts (uncredited)
Joe Yrigoyen .... stunts (uncredited)
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
John A. Anderson .... wardrobe: men
Ruth Stella .... wardrobe: women
 
Editorial Department
Jack Wheeler .... assistant editor
 
Music Department
Ruby Raksin .... orchestrator
Van Cleave .... orchestrator (as Nathan Van Cleave)
 
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Runtime:
108 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 See more »
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Certification:
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1968) | UK:12 (2003) | UK:A (1967) (cut) | USA:Approved (Certificate #21512) | Sweden:15 | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG
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Did You Know?

Trivia:
Charlton Heston has often said of all the films he's made, this is his favorite.See more »
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: During the fight between Will Penny and the Quint family, one of the brothers throws a knife into Penny's chest. A wire attached to the knife a very obvious.See more »
Quotes:
Blue:[to Dutchy] Hell, one job's all I need. Sharin' a blanket don't make us married.See more »
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Unforgiven (1992)See more »
Soundtrack:
Lonely Rider, TheSee more »

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45 out of 56 people found the following review useful.
Superb film., 16 November 2003
Author: eaglejet98

Will Penny is an absolutely superb film. I find no flaws in it. A story about rough men and hard times, its plot and characters stand on their own merits, not the cowboy setting. The scenery is perfect; the great west during a harsh winter after a long cattle drive. We feel like we are there.

The initial pace of the screenplay is slow and plodding. But this is intentional. It gives us a feel for the dreariness of a common cowboy's bleak life in the late 19th Century. Later the pace picks up.

Charlton Heston is convincing as a tired, aging, wrangler who really doesn't have much to show for his life. Joan Hackett is just plain enough looking to be real but attractive enough to become the love interest. A great actress, she passed away prematurely.

Donald Pleasence and Bruce Dern are frighteningly convincing as a homicidal religious zealot and his psychopathic son. They personify the cults of violent people that occupy the back recesses of society and only come out to work evil on the rest of us. These two are very scary.

Heston and Hackett's love is believable and so is the gun play. Yet there is no gratuitous sex or violence.

Will Penny is well produced and thoroughly entertaining.

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