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Title: Le ruffian (1983)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Lino Ventura | ... | Aldo | |
| Bernard Giraudeau | ... | Gérard | |
| Claudia Cardinale | ... | La 'baronne' | |
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Béatrix Van Til | ... | Éléonore |
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Pierre Frag | ... | John |
| August Schellenberg | ... | Neslon Harting | |
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James Ernest Davis | ... | An Indian (as James E. Davis Jr.) |
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Danyl Wahayenni-Martin | ... | An Indian |
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Rick Alkerton | ||
| Robert Bouchard | |||
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Broan Bowron | ||
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Mike Bradford | ||
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Donald Brown | ||
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Lorne Carry | ||
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William Collins | ||
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Release Date:
12 January 1983 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
CAD 5,300,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Starts absolutely masterful and then nosedives hard, sadly.
The amazing Lino Ventura plays a rough prospector in the rocky mountains, at least we're lead to believe that. After a stunningly directed and framed violent and exciting prologue full of beautiful landscape photography scored with a Ennio Morricone soundtrack the movie transforms into an awkward garbled mess that doesn't really know what it wants to be.
I have rarely seen a movie nosedive this hard. I would have loved if the movie had stayed a rough wilderness survival adventure piece with a solo Lino Ventura fighting nature and bandits.
But as it is I can only recommend everyone watch the movie until Lino Ventura arrives in the city and immediately destroy the DVD or Blu-Ray they're watching, to keep the great impressions of the first arc and spare themselves the sour note of a completely blundered premise.