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Hombre (1967)

5/17/2015

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Grimes:

Russell:


Well now...what d'ya suppose hell's gonna look like?

We all die...just a question of when.



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In the 1960s, Paul Newman was on a roll with movies beginning with the letter “H.” First came Hud in 1963, then Harper in 1966. One year later, Newman was back with Hombre, a tough, somber western which ranks with the best that decade has to offer.

Newman tamps down his usual cocky charm to play the laconic “hombre” of the title, a white man raised among the Apache. As a boy he was “rescued” and taken in by a kind man named Russell, who named him John Russell and taught him the white man’s ways.  But John Russell preferred the Apache way of life and returned to live with them, working first for the reservation police, then as a free agent, which is where we first meet him, watching stoically as he and some fellow Apaches try to trap some wild mustangs to sell to raise money for the poverty-stricken tribe.

Russell is told by old friend and stagecoach owner Mendez (Martin Balsam) that the elder Russell has died, and left him a boarding house in his will. Attractive, salty landlady Jessie (Diane Cilento) has hopes that new owner Russell will keep the business going, but after a quick inspection, Russell informs her that he’s had an offer on the place and he’s going to sell. That leaves Jessie and the other tenants of the boarding house without a place to stay. When Indian agent Favor (Frederic March) and his high-falutin’ wife, Audra (Barbara Rush), pay a premium to get a quick stage out of town, many of the now-homeless tenants pack up and join in, including unhappy newlyweds Billy Lee (Peter Lazar) and Doris (Margaret Blye), Mendez, and Jessie herself, after her long-time lover, Braden (Cameron Mitchell), the local sheriff, flatly refuses to make an honest woman of her.  The last two passengers are Russell and big, swaggering Cyrano Grimes (Richard Boone). 


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Grimes is bad news all around, and the long, dusty stagecoach journey ends abruptly in a hold up. Seems Favor has absconded with government funds intended for the Apaches, and Grimes and his men got wind of it. Tired of his nowhere life as a sheriff, Braden has thrown his lot in with Grimes, as well as a couple of other scumbags, Dean (David Canary) and Early (Skip Ward). Grimes takes Mrs. Favor as a hostage, but before his cronies can ride off with the loot, Russell hops atop the stagecoach, grabs his hidden rifle and opens fire, swiftly killing Braden (so much for that career as an outlaw, buddy!) and Dean. There’s a nice shot here of all the passengers lying flat on the dirt after the brief firefight, a simple yet realistic touch, one of many that pepper the film.

Russell grabs the money and heads for the hills, while the rest of the passengers hastily scramble after him. “Why do we keep following you?” Jessie asks Russell at one point. “Because I can cut it, lady,” he replies. The remainder of the film becomes a cat-and-mouse game between Russell and the other passengers and the pursuing Grimes, now assisted by a friendly, but very dangerous, Mexican bandido (Frank Silvera).
It all eventually comes down to a dramatic finale, with Russell having to make a choice: to remain on the sidelines and let innocent people die, or to put his life on the line for someone else.

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Martin Balsam (left) and Peter Lazer
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Newman anchors the film with a quiet authority. Tanned and lean, his aquiline features well-suited to the part,  Newman effectively captures the careful,  watchful, preternaturally calm Apache spirit residing in the white man’s body. His Russell is a fascinating central figure, straddling two cultures, a lifetime of hard-won skills and truths reflected in his manner and actions, practical and unsentimental at all times. He never wastes time on social niceties, though is seldom rude. He avoids confrontation and taking unnecessary risks, but will move with swift, decisive, and deadly force when required.  The stranded passengers follow his lead not because of what he says, but of what he does. Because, as he tells Jessie, he can cut it.

Hombre is a grim movie in many respects, but there’s quite a lot of wry wit in the dialogue and genuine, amusing surprise in some of Russell’s actions. For example, after the stagecoach robbery goes wrong for the baddies, and Russell takes off for the hills with the money and the passengers in tow, he suggests the best course of action is to end the conflict now, by a surprise ambush. He sets Mendez behind some rocks with the shotgun and he further uphill with his rifle, and they lie in wait in the hot sun. Mendez has no stomach for an ambush and shoots too early, alerting Grimes and his men. Russell does what damage he can, though, including shooting and wounding Grimes’ tough Mexican compadre. This leads to a fun exchange between the two men, starting off with the unnamed bandito giving a little speech to show his respect: “Hey, hombre! A compliment on your shooting! You put a hole in me! Whew. I never had a bellyache like this since I'm a little boy. Hey amigo! Friend! I am going to give you back this bullet."
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Or take the scene near the end, when Russell and the others are holed up in an old mining shack. Grimes comes up for a parley and to utter some threats. In a typical western, the scene would finish with some brave rejoinder from the hero, and then the heavy would retreat down the hill, unmolested, their final showdown postponed till later.

Not in Hombre.


Russell:


Grimes:



Jessie:

Hey. I got a question. How are you planning to get back down that hill?

Now you wait a minute! I'm getting back down the same way I came up! (Begins running and stumbles back down the hill. Russell shoots him twice before he is pulled into cover.)


[as Grimes crawls away after being shot]
Cicero Grimes, meet John Russell.


In other words, Russell doesn’t play by normal “white men” rules. This is no game to him, only life-and-death struggle and cold, utter practicality.

Diane Cilento gives a terrific performance in one of the better-written roles for an actress I’ve seen in a western. A native Australian, married to Sean Connery at the time, Cilento is utterly convincing as a sexy, no-nonsense sort of frontier woman, who’s been there and bears the scars of experience, but still retains her femininity, humor and humanity. She sparks immediately with Newman’s Russell, and the two circle each other throughout the film. Despite her initial dislike, she grows to grudgingly respect and even become attracted to the taciturn Russell.

Jessie:


Russell:

Jessie:


Russell:

Jessie:

Russell:

Jessie:




Russell:

Jessie:


You haven't moved a muscle in the last hour and a half. You don't get tired. You don't get hungry. You don't get thirsty. Are you real?

More or less.

I've known a lot of men, but I never met one like you. There's always been something that could rattle them or shake them up a little.

You, maybe?

I've done it to a couple in my time.

Where are they now?

Oh, they're all gone. I've been wedded and bedded, and loved and let down. It hasn't always been nice. At least it's been natural. And you? Do you toss a girl over the back of your horse and ride off into the pinon trees?

You asking for a demonstration?


I think I'm asking for trouble.

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Despite her excellent work here and in other films, such as Tom Jones and The Wicker Man, Cilento’s career never quite took off like it should have, a shame really. With her red hair, big, expressive eyes, and tough attitude, she’s a striking presence in Hombre and it’s on her face that the film’s emotional last beat focuses on.

Big Richard Boone
is letter perfect as the main villain, with his grizzled exterior and baleful glare masking a keen intellect and a tired, tattered courtliness of manner. He could do this kind of badman role in his sleep, but instead invests Grimes with a kind of resigned implacability. This is a man who is used to getting his own way, by threat of violence or the actual use of it. Frank Silvera is given less to do, as the "vaquero who's more than a fair hand" with a gun, but does it with style and gusto. David Canary exits early but is properly unsavory as the henchman who has an earlier run-in with Russell. Cameron Mitchell's turn is even slighter, but he does get one well-written speech early on, lamenting his go-nowhere prospects as a two-bit sheriff in a one-horse town. (Reportedly his role was originally much bigger but he had a falling out with Newman and the producers, though I can’t find any substantiation for this, other than to observe that it does seem a case of casting way above the pay grade for the role as is in the finished film).

The rest of the cast is uniformly strong. Frederic March brings a nice loquaciousness and tarnished dignity to the duplicitous Mr. Favor, and Barbara Rush, at 40 here no longer an ingénue but still every inch the lady, delivers a nice line in glacial hauteur. Martin Balsam is likely no one’s first choice to play a Mexican (although it’s implied that he, too, might be a half breed), but does typically good, soulful work as the one man who knows Russell’s character and what he’s capable of.  Peter Lazer and Margaret Blye (the latter a long way from the glamour of playing Michael Caine’s girlfriend in The Italian Job) are somewhat incidental to proceedings but just fine as the bickering young couple. Fans of the short-lived TV series The Dakotas (recently released by the good folks at the Warner Archive Collection) might get a kick out of a brief cameo by Larry Ward, and Val Avery is also on hand as a stationmaster / barkeep.

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Barbara Rush and Frederic March
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Cameron Mitchell
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David Canary
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Frank Silvera

Before making his career as a master of crime fiction, Elmore Leonard wrote several lean and mean western stories and novels, several of which were adapted into films. The Budd Boetticher – Randolph Scott western The Tall T (also featuring Richard Boone as the bad guy) and 3:10 to Yuma (both 1957) are the most famous. Hombre was the first of Leonard’s western novels to be adapted, followed not long after by the also excellent Valdez is Coming (1971), with Burt Lancaster. In addition, Tom Selleck starred in Last Stand at Saber River (1997) for TNT, back when they were in the business of making quality TV movies (including a bunch of westerns).

I haven’t read the Hombre novel, but I wouldn’t be surprised, given Leonard’s facility for quotable dialogue, if Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. (both married when they wrote the screenplay for this film) didn’t lift whole snatches of conversation from the book, so sharp is the dialogue. The script is a model of precise storytelling through character interaction, and gets a lot of mileage from the various “normal” characters bouncing off the more extreme ones, like Russell and Jones.

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Hombre isn't an "Indian issues" movie per se. It doesn't push its politics too hard, those themes merely a mournful background note. But it's all there, subtly woven throughout the story and script: the casual racism and distaste many of the white characters express about the Apache, the corrupt figure of Indian agent Favor a reflection of the U.S. government's often dishonest, negligent treatment and exploitation of a conquered people. It might be a typical example of Hollywood liberal guilt, to have blue eyed Paul Newman act as the indignant spokesman for Native American rights - at least , that's the way it would play in a movie made today.  Hombre makes some pointed jabs here and there, but it never comes off as heavy-handed, merely honest. One such exchange occurs early on, as Russell gets tired of Mrs. Favor's snobbish disdain of the Apaches and their downtrodden state, reduced to scrabbling for scraps of food on the San Carlos reservation:

Mrs. Favor:

Russell:


Mrs. Favor:


Russell:

Mrs. Favor:

Russell:
I can't imagine eating a dog and not thinking anything of it.

You ever been hungry, lady? Not just ready for supper. Hungry enough so that your belly swells?

I wouldn't care how hungry I got. I know I wouldn't eat one of those camp dogs.

You'd eat it. You'd fight for the bones, too.

Have you ever eaten a dog, Mr. Russell?

Eaten one and lived like one.

Martin Ritt directs with a confident hand. There's plenty of nice location work, mostly around the dry scrub and hills of Arizona, and though Hombre isn't a movie filled with a lot of  sweeping vistas and soaring camera-work, in keeping with its sober, thoughtful tone, nevertheless the cinematography (by legendary DP James Wong Howe) is precise, unobtrusive yet elegant. This is far more of a character-based western than an action film, though the action, when it comes, is effective (other than one strange edit, in the scene where Newman shoots Canary in the face, where it’s painfully obvious someone slopped some red paint on the frame rather than bother with doing proper special effects blood squib work on location. A similar problem can be seen in a shoot-out early in the otherwise flawless The Professionals).

While it doesn't seem to get much critical acclaim or fan attention, I find Hombre to be an absolutely top-notch western in all respects, with a tight story, crackling script, fine acting and good production values. I’d be highly surprised if its final image - of an actual vintage photograph, depicting a little white boy, aged somewhere between 7 and 10, standing with swollen-faced defiance among his Apache peers, his expression unreadable – doesn’t haunt you long past when the credits roll.


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Blu-Ray/ DVD Note: The above images were taken from the 2007 Fox DVD release, which is quite affordable and has a very handsome widescreen transfer. In May 2015, Twilight Time released one of its limited Blu-Ray editions of this film. By all accounts, it features a stunning hi-def transfer. Twilight Time BDs are expensive, but the quality is generally very high, and Hombre is worth every penny.
21 Comments
armando
5/17/2015 07:51:12 am

great western

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Jeff
5/17/2015 05:25:04 pm

Yes it is!

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john k
5/17/2015 09:51:37 pm

Lovely review Jeff,I will certainly get the Blu-Ray upgrade of this one.
Nice to see you name-drop THE DAKOTAS,Larry Ward's career had stalled by
the time HOMBRE was made;a real pity as he was so good in that wonderful
television series.
Likewise,Cameron Mitchell has very little to do in HOMBRE.
You also mentioned VALDEZ IS COMING a film that for me promised a lot
more than it delivered,ambiguous ending and all. VALDEZ had the potential to be
a real classic,but sadly fades in comparison to HOMBRE.

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Jeff
5/18/2015 08:45:01 pm

Thank you kindly for the comments, John! Glad you admire this western also.

Re: THE DAKOTAS, I'm very encouraged by your and other western fans high praise for this series and am looking forward to watching the show myself soon. I'm keeping an eagle eye out for the next Warner Archive sale, so I can buy and it have it waiting for me during my next visit Stateside this August. I haven't seen Larry Ward in much beside HOMBRE so am curious to see his persona as the nominal lead on THE DAKOTAS.

Interesting comments about VALDEZ IS COMING. I regard the film more highly than you though I will concede it is not in the same league as HOMBRE. Unlike the Newman film, VALDEZ's supporting cast is not as effective. Burt Lancaster makes a strange, blue-eyed Mexican but gives an interesting and sincere performance. I like Susan Clark, and she starred in a number of really good late 60s/early 70s films, such as COOGAN'S BLUFF, COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT and THE MIDNIGHT MAN (also featuring Lancaster). Barton Heyman nearly steals the show as the henchman who comes to respect Valdez. But Richard Jordan (whom I normally like) goes borderline hysterical a few times too many, and Jon Cypher is just one note rage as the main villain, Frank Tanner. The script is also not as good as the one for HOMBRE, either. But I really enjoy VALDEZ nonetheless, and really enjoy seeing the humble Valdez channel his inner badass and start laying the smack down on Tanner and his men. The ambiguous ending you mention is also memorable.

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Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) link
5/18/2015 06:47:44 pm

Great review Jeff - must admit, saw this as a teenager and just got bummed out by the downbeat aspects and in a way have yet to get over it - I think 30 years later it is time to try again! You have inspired me - thanks chum.

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Jeff
5/18/2015 08:48:37 pm

Thanks, Sergio! I'm certain that the downbeat aspects you refer to are what has kept HOMBRE from enjoying a wider fame and popularity. Over the years I've come to terms with the ending and feel it's fitting for this particular film, though I can easily see how it would hamper the enjoyment for you and others. I do hope you give it another look sometime, it's such a well done film, and deserves more attention.

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john k
5/31/2015 11:45:53 pm

Very surprised that this fine piece has only received 6 replies.
I may be wrong but I have always thought HOMBRE was considered a highly regarded film as opposed to being considered a genuine classic Western.
Certainly after seeing the magnificent transfer on the Twilight Time Blu-Ray here is a film that
needs a serious re-appraisal.
I never saw the DVD but can only state that the Blu-Ray is sensational,sharp rich colours one of
the finest Blu Rays I have seen so far.
Newman's John Russell owes something to previous misanthropic/alienated loners played by
James Stewart in some of the Mann Westerns and Randolph Scott in some of the Boetticher
pictures.
Newman bring a Zen like knowingness to the role-the only other actor at the time who could
have played it in a similar way would have been Steve McQueen.
One would have thought after nearly fifty years that HOMBRE would have had a much higher
reputation,and I for one am amazed that it is not considered a classic Western...it certainly
deserves to be.
I am glad that I held out for the Blu-Ray which I can recommend without reservation.



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Jeff
6/1/2015 09:02:14 pm

Thank you, John, for your additional comments on HOMBRE - much appreciated! The lack of comments in general is perhaps due to my irregular posting schedule this year. This might have caused the site to slip off the radar of some regular readers. I am a little surprised to not have heard from Colin yet...I'm very curious as to his opinion of this wonderful film.

Great observation about Newman's "Zen knowingness"...you're right, Steve McQueen is probably one of the few contenders who might have brought the same sort of aloof, ironic detachment to the role.

Thanks also for the further info on the Twilight Time blu-ray. What screen caps I've seen do indeed look amazing, exceedingly sharp and detailed. I usually balk at TT's high price point, but this is one title I'll likely have to pony up the cash for.

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john k
5/31/2015 11:56:32 pm

Jeff,as you name-dropped Susan Clark,I thought that I would celebrate Clint's 85th Birthday
last night by watching the Blu-Ray of COOGAN'S BLUFF.
The lovely Susan was certainly one of Clint's finest female leads and I wish they had made more
pictures together.

With the aforementioned outstanding picture quality on HOMBRE I hope it is not too long before
more Twentieth Century Fox CinemaScope Westerns make it to Blu-Ray.
Top of my wish list are THE LAST WAGON,THE PROUD ONES and THE BRAVADOS.
The latter title for me, is a flawed film but I would still love to see it in high definition.

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Jeff
6/1/2015 09:10:34 pm

John, watching COOGAN'S BLUFF is a fine way to ring in Clint's 85th birthday! I enjoy that film a whole lot, and though Susan Clark is perhaps not best served by the script in that one, she makes for a very attractive romantic interest. I think she's given more to work with in some of her other pictures from that era, like COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT and VALDEZ IS COMING (which I know you're less of a fan of). She makes a fine femme fatale in THE MIDNIGHT MAN, too...where is a DVD version of that enjoyable and well-cast mystery, I wonder? I haven't seen SKIN GAME in a loooong time, so can't remember how memorable she was in that. Have you seen SHOWDOWN (1973), John? Looks interesting but it's a title I haven't heard of.

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john k
6/1/2015 11:58:45 pm

Jeff, I saw SHOWDOWN at the time and remember enjoying it then.
I would jump at a Blu-Ray of that film.
As you may have gathered I continue to hold out for Blu-Ray editions of certain A
Westerns.
All I remember about SHOWDOWN was that it gave an interesting version of a
changing West. I remember it being a handsome looking film.
How could it be anything else with photography by Ernest Laszlo and art direction from
Henry Bumstead and Alexander Golitzen.Mr Bumstead and Mr Golitzen were
responsible for the "look" of many Clint Eastwood pictures.
Alexander Golitzen art directed many great Universal Pictures including many of their
Fifties Westerns and Creature Features.
Speaking of Mr Golitzen I recently got the German Blu Ray of Tourneur's wonderful
CANYON PASSAGE where he also served as associate producer.
I described the Blu-Ray over at Toby's blog as a "gourmet feast for the eyes"
Funnily enough just this morning I received the German Blu-Ray of THE INCREDIBLE
SHRINKING MAN also art directed by Alexander Golitzen.
Mr Golitzen indeed had a far ranging career from true classics like FOREIGN
CORRESPONDENT to "cult" classics like CURSE OF THE UNDEAD.

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Jeff
6/2/2015 10:25:42 pm

Thanks as always, John, for all the insightful info re: SHOWDOWN and Mssrs. Bumstead and Golitzen. I'll try to get my mitts on a copy of SHOWDOWN at some point. Thanks for reminding me to dig CANYON PASSAGE out from the pile of unwatched DVDs...I've heard nothing but good things about that one.

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Colin link
6/2/2015 08:31:20 pm

Sorry it's taken me so long to get round to commenting on this excellent article on a film I have a lot of time for.

I love the way Newman and Boone really inhabit their characters, both had quite different acting styles but they complement each other here. Newman's stillness and detachment is spot on and it makes the redemptive actions at the end all the more powerful when you bear in mind how far he had to travel emotionally to reach that point.

You mention intellect when you wrote about Boone, and I like that as I think the intelligence of the man always shone through, whatever role he played - it adds a great deal to his characterization, a smart villain is invariably more interesting to watch than a dumb thug.

You said you haven't yet read the novel and I do hope you get the chance to remedy that. It's a fine book, as is all Leonard's western writing, and I recommend it unreservedly.

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Jeff
6/3/2015 08:47:09 pm

Thank you, Colin! It's great to hear your thoughts on this film. I'm gratified to see that you also rate it highly. Agree with you all the way re: the intelligent, carefully-crafted performances of Newman and Boone. Earlier in his career, Boone's innate intelligence and sensitivity was front and center; in his later roles, he grew a bit rougher around the edges, his performances occasionally more broad...but you could always see that gleam in his eyes.

Thanks also for the feedback on Leonard's novel. I have read a number of his western short stories, and they are uniformly excellent. I'm certainly curious to read the HOMBRE novel, if only to compare and contrast it with the film. I hear that the Jessie character, for one, does not appear in the book. That's one clear, welcome addition that the screenwriters brought to the project, at the very least.

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Colin link
6/3/2015 09:06:15 pm

Jeff, further to Leonard's work, I'd also recommend Valdez is Coming, the adaptation of which has been spoken of above. as a very good read. It's been a while now but I also remember The Law at Randado being quite strong too.

Jeff
6/6/2015 03:59:09 pm

Thanks for those recommendations, Colin! I've also been eying the paperback of FORTY LASHES LESS ONE from time to time. Plan to pick up some of these novels, plus some more Louis L'amour books, come my next trip back home this August.

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Rick link
6/7/2015 09:16:45 am

While it's not a personal fave, HOMBRE is a well-done Western and you've done a marvelous job highlighting the first-rate cast. I was always puzzled, too, as to why Diane Cilento didn't have a bigger career. Richard Boone, so awesome as Paladin, makes a perfect villain. Who would have thought that David Canary would become one of the most enduring daytime TV stars?

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Jeff
6/9/2015 12:06:59 am

Thanks for that, Rick! I know HOMBRE won't make many people's top ten westerns lists, due to its downbeat nature, perhaps, but it is undeniably well done. While I'm glad David Canary found lasting work on daytime TV soaps, he'll always be Candy on BONANZA to me.

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Jerry Elder
11/27/2015 06:19:02 pm

Great review of a great movie. Many Thanks, Jerry

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Jeff
11/29/2015 03:28:07 am

Thank you kindly, Jerry - glad you enjoyed it!

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El G
12/31/2016 03:12:53 am

Hombre has subtleties and poignant character development that should not be overlooked. It is a fine Western, and should be considered as one of the finest of its era. Russell is stoical, honorable, and code driven, and his leadership by example is ironic given the human failings of the other characters. In the vein of the samurai, he lives by a code. Diane Cilento is pure in her femaleness, yet frontier strong and equally as pragmatic. "Cause I can cut it Lady", has to be one of the best one liners in any western!

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