Directed by:
Henry HathawayScreenplay:
John Michael HayesCinematography:
Lucien BallardComposer:
Alfred NewmanCast:
Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Raf Vallone, Janet Margolin, Pat Hingle, Howard Da Silva, Martin Landau, Paul Fix (more)VOD (2)
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Based on the characters in Harold Robbins' THE CARPETBAGGERS, this is the story Nevada Smith (Steve McQueen), a half-breed Native American whose parents are viciously murdered by a gang of toughs led by Tom Fitch (Karl Malden). Nevada sets out to kill the gang after being taught to use weapons by Jonas Cord, Sr. (Brian Keith). Nevada kills the first of the gang in a knife fight and commits a crime to get into the prison where the second outlaw is being held and kills him, but that's just the beginning of his difficult journey of vengeance. (official distributor synopsis)
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The vendetta-obsessed white/Indian teenager is played by wrinkle-covered Arian McQueen who must have been getting on for forty. No joke - the filmmakers were completely serious. The movie is so full of unintentionally bizarre moments when Steve is visually the same age as (or even older than) his colleagues on-set, but they behave toward him like a little brat with milk still dribbling down his chin. It would have been excellent as a five-minute sketch by Monty Python, but it just doesn’t work as an unnecessarily long regular western about revenge which, apart from what I wrote here, has nothing of interest about it.
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