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4.8/10   53 votes
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Writers:
Harry Essex (writer) &
Oscar Saul (writer)
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Release Date:
28 January 1976 (Mexico) more
Tagline:
Bill Cosby comes to the big screen in a stunning switch from his TV and comedy portrayals to a starkly dramatic role!
Plot:
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Bill Cosby ... Caleb Revers
Gloria Foster ... Ivy Revers
Leif Erickson ... Sheriff Mossman
George Spell ... Billy Revers
Douglas Turner Ward ... Lee Christmas
John Anderson ... Stretch
Henry Silva ... Caine
Dub Taylor ... Atkins
Yaphet Kotto ... Nate Hodges

Shelley Morrison ... Rosita
Richard Bull ... Thornhill
Robert Lawson ... Lawson
Jason Clark ... Red
Fred Graham ... Blockers
Jack Owens
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ride a Dark Horse
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Runtime:
Spain:98 min | USA:98 min
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few movies have truly human characters, 20 December 2005
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Author: Lee Skalla from United States

The most impressive thing about this film, to me, was it's realism. Many films have the pretense of reality, but very few movies have truly human characters. The only one you can become emotionally invested in is, of course, the boy. Everyone else is perfectly flawed. The Hero is, at times, a coward. The villains all seem to be driven by motives that one can easily understand. And under the same influences, one might be inclined to follow the same paths they chose. As in life, there are few truly righteous or evil people. Some, but very few. Most of us are somewhere in between. In short,"Man and Boy" is teaching us this lesson through the eyes of a young boy looking for a hero. Dose he find one? You be the judge.

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