Another Man, Another Chance (1977)
"Un autre homme, une autre chance" (original title)

A photographer, who has been hired to photograph the wild west of America where he has lived his entire life, tells his client of a photograph he has that was taken one hundred years ago by... See full summary »

Director:

Claude Lelouch

Writer:

Claude Lelouch

Stars:

James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
James Caan	...	David Williams / Photographer
Geneviève Bujold	...	Jeanne Leroy née Perriere (as Genevieve Bujold)
Francis Huster	...	Francis Leroy
Susan Tyrrell	...	Alice
Jennifer Warren	...	Mary Williams
Rossie Harris	...	Simon Williams
Linda Lee Lyons	...	Sarah Leroy
Jacques Villeret	...	Customer
Fred Stuthman	...	Mary's Father
Diana Douglas	...	Mary's Mother
Michael Berryman	...	1st Bandit
Dominic Barto	...	Wounded Man
Richard Farnsworth	...	Stagecoach Driver (as Dick Farnsworth)
George Flaherty	...	Sheriff Carter
Robert Tessier	...	Blacksmith

Storyline

A photographer, who has been hired to photograph the wild west of America where he has lived his entire life, tells his client of a photograph he has that was taken one hundred years ago by his French great-grandmother that epitomizes what he is trying to capture. The story behind the photographer's heritage and that photograph... In the early 1870s, photographer Francis Leroy and who would eventually becomes his wife, Jeanne Leroy née Perriere, a baker's daughter and an aspiring photographer in her own right, move from Paris, where strife has taken hold due to Napoleon's loss in the Franco-Prussian War, to the American west, where the light is more conducive for their photography work. The move is despite not knowing about life at their destination and not knowing how to speak English. Veterinarian David Williams and his wife Mary Williams love each other, but their wants in life are incompatible with each other, David who loves his work treating real animals on farms and ranches, ...

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Plot Keywords:

photography | franco prussian war

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Genres:

Western

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

France USA

Language:

English French Spanish

Release Date:

28 September 1977 (France)

Also Known As:

Another Man, Another Chance

Filming Locations:

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Les Films 13, Les Films Ariane, Chartoff-Winkler Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

136 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Goofs

After David treats one of the bad guys at their camp, another one warns him about not saying where he really was. The voice doesn't match what this bad guy said.

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Quotes

David Williams: I guess if you're gonna spend your life with yourself, you might as well to learn to be good company.

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Connections

Featured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Classics from the Vault: Great Performances That Oscar Ignored (2011)

User Reviews

Wonderful

I am studying sound design and this movie blew me away. Watched it late night only because of the excellent James C. The most striking thing is when ever there is a violent scene, the director choose to fade out and loose all natural sound and simply play a simple but striking piece of piano. It distances you from the horror of the violence, it seemed to me to be as if I was being sheltered from the full effect. Powerful and poetic this was a revisionist western way ahead of its peers and only to be matched by Clint Eastwood's High plains drifter and Beguiled.