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The Jack Bull (1999) (TV)
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17 April 1999 (USA)
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After being wrongfully denied justice, a horse trader seeks his own justice on a treacherous rancher. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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A great Western
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Cusack | ... | Myrl Redding | |
| John Goodman | ... | Judge Tolliver | |
| L.Q. Jones | ... | Henry Ballard | |
| Miranda Otto | ... | Cora Redding | |
| John C. McGinley | ... | Woody | |
| John Savage | ... | Slater | |
| Rodney A. Grant | ... | Billy | |
| Kurt Fuller | ... | Conrad | |
| Rex Linn | ... | Shelby Dykes | |
| Jay O. Sanders | ... | Atty. Gen. Metcalfe | |
| Drake Bell | ... | Cage Redding | |
| Nick Gillie | ... | Ollie (as Nicholas E. Gillie) | |
| Duncan Fraser | ... | Edsel Fraser | |
| Ken Pogue | ... | Judge Wilkins | |
| Glenn Morshower | ... | Col. Jeffries (as Glen Morshower) |
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Rated R for some Western violence.
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116 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Anachronisms: At the end of the movie, Myrl is hanged using the Julian gallows and the state was celebrating Statehood. Wyoming was admitted to the United States on 10 July 1890. The gallows used to hang Mryl was invented by Cheyenne architect, James P. Julian in 1892, two years after statehood.
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Cora Redding:
Besides, I know more about politickin'.
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Version of Michael Kohlhaas (1967)
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Ring them Bells
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It's not too often now that a great Western comes around, and even a rarer occurence in the theater, so now we look to the TV cable channels for them. This is the case for HBO's The Jack Bull. Headlined by John Cusack and written by his father, the movie centers on a man's quest to have the man he left in charge of two fine horses to restore them to health after he neglects them badly. His quest leads him to chase the man across Montana and leads him into conflict with not only the man he is chasing and his hired hands but the entire governmental organization of Montana, as they prepare for statehood. A fine turn by Cusack and a storyline that doesn't condescend to the viewer make The Jack Bull a great example of the modern Western.