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16 May 1980 (USA)
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"All the world likes an outlaw. For some damn reason they remember 'em." - Jesse James
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The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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(8 articles)
Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 9 September 2009, 12:07 AM, PDT)
David Carradine Funeral Details
(From The Insider. 14 June 2009, 1:40 AM, PDT)
(From The Hollywood Interview. 9 September 2009, 12:07 AM, PDT)
David Carradine Funeral Details
(From The Insider. 14 June 2009, 1:40 AM, PDT)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Carradine | ... | Cole Younger |
 | Keith Carradine | ... | Jim Younger |
 | Robert Carradine | ... | Bob Younger |
 | James Keach | ... | Jesse James |
| Stacy Keach | ... | Frank James |
 | Dennis Quaid | ... | Ed Miller |
 | Randy Quaid | ... | Clell Miller |
| Kevin Brophy | ... | John Younger |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | George Arthur |
 | Christopher Guest | ... | Charlie Ford |
 | Nicholas Guest | ... | Bob Ford |
 | Shelby Leverington | ... | Annie Ralston |
| Felice Orlandi | ... | Mr. Reddick |
| Pamela Reed | ... | Belle Starr |
 | James Remar | ... | Sam Starr |
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99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
Australia:M |
Spain:18 |
West Germany:16 (nf) |
South Korea:15 |
USA:Approved |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:18 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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The film stars four sets of actual brothers: the Carradines, the Keachs, the Quaids and the Guests.
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Continuity: When Bob Younger is thrown from his horse in Northfield, Minnesota, and in the next two shots of him as he struggles to his feet under fire, he is holding a revolver in each hand. When the shot next cuts to him, he is frantically working and firing a Winchester 1866 (Yellow-boy) rifle. Presumably this came from the boot in his horse's saddle, but he has had barely a second in which to retrieve it.
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Jim Younger:
[before the Northfield Raid] Maybe we need to send a couple of people down there and look things over before we just ride in there.
Jesse James: Clell's already scouted it out. What's wrong with you, Jim? Talkin' soft is something I'd expect from Cole or Frank.
Cole Younger: I gave up tryin' to talk sense to you a long time ago, Jesse.
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Jesse James: Clell's already scouted it out. What's wrong with you, Jim? Talkin' soft is something I'd expect from Cole or Frank.
Cole Younger: I gave up tryin' to talk sense to you a long time ago, Jesse.
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Referenced in The Making of 'Kill Bill: Volume 2' (2004) (TV)
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I'm a Good Old Rebel
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As Sam Peckinpah's 'The Getaway,' Walter Hill's 'The Long Riders' almost elevates cinema violence into an art form…
Visually, 'The Long Riders' contains much that is stunning, even mesmerizing: the green Missouri scenic landscapes; the train robbery sequence; the stagecoach heist; the crossing of a wild river; but there is no question that it is the scene of the gang's disastrous foray into Northfield, Minnesota - that highlight this film… These specific episodes give 'The Long Riders' its rhythm, power, spectacle, and excitement…
With his slow motion 'terror shootout,' Hill seems to impress his viewers by showing them an inventive montage of high-level gory violence… But Hill's most wonderful sequences are those that were the most reserved: the wonderful moment when Frank is cutting the hardest wood with a forest ax and his brother Jesse, walking with his fiancée, attempting to settle down and raise a family…
Hill may have a reputation for being a tough guy, but his best screen moments (in "Hard Times", "The Warriors", "Streets of Fire") are the ones in which he allows his romantic tendencies to slip through, when he gives his characters the dignity that means so much to them… Hill tries to debunk the American myth that Western gunfighters were "heroes," and to show these embittered guys for the 'rough men that they really were.'
Hill's real intention is to present us with a gang of four families of brothers, and get us to accept them on their own terms, in their own brutal world… The men of 'The Long Riders' are at their most dastardly at the beginning of the film when Ed Miller (Dennis Quaid) indiscriminately shoots an innocent clerk, but for the rest of the film - one by one - Hill reveals their better, more 'human' sides… We further get to appreciate them as we compare them to the awful men around them; next to the Pinkertons killing a simple-minded 15 year old boy, they come out best, the 'good guys.'
To Hill, good and bad aren't on opposite sides of the coin; they share the edge…