Draw! (1984) (TV)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Steven Hilliard Stern

Writer:

Stanley Mann (writer)

Release Date:

15 July 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Western

Plot:

In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis. |

Plot Keywords:

Duel | Gunfight | Sex

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Kirk Douglas	...	Harry H. Holland aka Handsome Harry Holland
James Coburn	...	Sam Starret
Alexandra Bastedo	...	Bess, Harry's Girlfriend in Bell City / member of acting troupe
Graham Jarvis	...	Deputy Wally Blodgett
Derek McGrath	...	Reggie Bell
Jason Michas	...	Moses, young town boy
Len Birman	...	Ephraim
Maurice Brand	...	Mr. Gibson
Graham McPherson	...	Eugene Lippert, Editor Bell City Gazette
Vladimír Valenta	...	Mordecai Hurwitz, General Store
Linda Sorenson	...	Teresa
Gerard Parkes	...	Circuit Judge Fawcett
Richard Donat	...	Sheriff Harmon
Frank Adamson	...	Lenny, Bartender Bell's Saloon
Stuart Gillard	...	Doctor West

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Company:

Astral Film Production Ltd.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Bess and Harry are playing poker in the hotel room, Bess is holding 6 cards in her hand, not 5. Then she puts her cards down and says, "Full house!"

A Curvacious Hostage

Imagine Kirk Douglas's character of Lomax from The War Wagon years later presumably after he'd spent that much reduced share from that robbery and you've got Handsome Harry Holland. Kirk is still a charmer, but now is just a bit tired of putting up with some of the people he has to deal with.

Case in point where he wins a hand at poker where the sniveling son of the town's richest man, Derek McGrath, acts like a real sore loser. His crybaby attitude sets in motion the whole plot where Douglas who only wants to cash McGrath's IOU at the bank winds up killing the sheriff who drew on him. Douglas is shot in the leg also in the same fracas and traveling actress Alexandra Bastedo takes him up to her room.

With McGrath stirring up the populace and Douglas's reputation the only thing to do is send for feared lawman James Coburn who's dealt with Douglas in the old days. Coburn who is now a sodden alcoholic does sober up for the occasion and of course finds he has more in common with Douglas than the 'law and order' citizens of the town.

Those old pros Douglas and Coburn are the main reason to see Draw!. That and the considerable feminine charms of Alexandra Bastedo who really does make the best of being held 'hostage' by Douglas in her room.