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22 August 1975 (Sweden)
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"Posse" begins like most Westerns. It ends like none of them. It will knock you off your horse.
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A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious criminal. He succeeds...
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By-the-numbers western (forget about any deep meanings)...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kirk Douglas | ... | Howard Nightingale | |
| Bruce Dern | ... | Jack Strawhorn | |
| Bo Hopkins | ... | Wesley | |
| James Stacy | ... | Harold Hellman | |
| Luke Askew | ... | Krag | |
| David Canary | ... | Pensteman | |
| Alfonso Arau | ... | Pepe | |
| Katherine Woodville | ... | Mrs. Cooper | |
| Mark Roberts | ... | Mr. Cooper | |
| Beth Brickell | ... | Carla Ross | |
| Dick O'Neill | ... | Wiley | |
| William H. Burton | ... | McCanless | |
| Louie Elias | ... | Rains | |
| Gus Greymountain | ... | Reyno | |
| Allan Warnick | ... | Telegrapher |
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92 min
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This movie was the first role for 'James Stacy' following his 1973 motorcycle accident involving a drunk driver, which resulted in the loss of Stacy's left arm and left leg. Kirk Douglas created the role especially for Stacy.
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Continuity: Howard Nightingale breaks his fall with hands that are supposedly cuffed behind his back.
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Jack Strawhorn:
Every day above ground is a good day.
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Kirk Douglas' second stab at film directing garnered him some favorable reviews, however this western with political flourishes is full of hot air rather than excitement. A US Marshal, beloved by the residents of a small dirt town, plans the ambush of a gang of bank robbers; their leader (Bruce Dern), who gets away, would be the feather in his cap for the Marshal, who is also running for State Senator. Though this is probably the only time in movie history a crook escaped from prison using a broomstick (!), this screenplay from Christopher Knopf and William Roberts is loaded down with the usual western clichés (mostly visual, though we are not spared the muttering old coot who works the printing press). With an extremely weak cast and unattractive locales, Douglas has only himself as an actor and the picture's marginal technical merits to fall back on. Some saw this as a political allegory; if so, it isn't a very incisive one, nor an entertaining or important one. *1/2 from ****