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8 October 1975 (USA) moreTagline:
Jeff Brides is Lewis Tater, the Iowa farmboy who blazed a trail across the barren wastes of Hollywood and Vine in MGM's comedy surprise "Hearts of the West."Plot:
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
A neglected, but not-to-be missed film from the mid-seventies. more (10 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jeff Bridges | ... | Lewis Tater | |
| Andy Griffith | ... | Howard Pike | |
| Donald Pleasence | ... | A.J. Neitz | |
| Blythe Danner | ... | Miss Trout | |
| Alan Arkin | ... | Kessler | |
| Richard B. Shull | ... | Stout Crook | |
| Herb Edelman | ... | Polo (as Herbert Edelman) | |
| Alex Rocco | ... | Earl | |
| Frank Cady | ... | Pa Tater | |
| Anthony James | ... | Lean Crook | |
| Burton Gilliam | ... | Lester | |
| Matt Clark | ... | Jackson | |
| Candice Azzara | ... | Waitress (as Candy Azzara) | |
| Thayer David | ... | Bank Manager | |
| Wayne Storm | ... | Lyle |
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102 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoFilming Locations:
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California, USAFun Stuff
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Howard Pike: If a person saying he was something was all there was to it, this country'd be full of rich men and good-looking women. Kings and queens... you know what I mean? Too bad it isn't that easy. In short, when someone else says you're a writer, that's when you're a writer... not before. moreFAQ
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This film is pure and timeless gold, as out of character with its time as it is with present times. Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, Blythe Danner and Andy Griffith are perfectly cast in a comedy that spoofs both American innocence and American cynicism about that innocence. If "The Great Gatsby" is a classic story of the American Dream gone wrong, "Hearts of the West" is a classic rendering of the American Dream gone right in spite of itself.
This film is deceptively artful (e.g., the coherence provided by the leitmotif of the bad guys' increasingly dusty and dented automobile). Its "simplicity" is the "simplicity" of all great comedy, which deals with the essences as well as the particular manifestations of situations. (Moliere would have liked this one!) It's a film that makes you want to rewind it immediately and watch it again.
Five minutes into "Hearts of the West," I decided I had to own a copy. Funny, redemptive, and to be watched again and again. The laughs will not stale.
What I wonder is this: did Howard Zieff also intend it as a critique of the mindset and films of the mid-seventies? Because it is that.
Don't miss this one. It will brighten even the dreariest day!