Movie star John Wayne developed a strong understanding of what audiences wanted to see from him in the roles that he chose. However, he also kept a finger on the pulse of the type of films that his peers starred in, and he certainly wasn’t afraid to speak his mind about them. Wayne didn’t care for a Gary Cooper movie that he called a “mockery of America’s highest award for valor.”
John Wayne prioritized movie morals John Wayne | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Wayne held the belief that the movie industry should be a “family business” of sorts. He detested the notion of a ratings system that allowed adult feature films with extreme violence and sexuality to hit silver screens to rely on human curiosity to make money.
The Oscar-winning actor refused to accept notable roles in movies such as High Noon and Blazing Saddles because of their morals.
John Wayne prioritized movie morals John Wayne | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Wayne held the belief that the movie industry should be a “family business” of sorts. He detested the notion of a ratings system that allowed adult feature films with extreme violence and sexuality to hit silver screens to rely on human curiosity to make money.
The Oscar-winning actor refused to accept notable roles in movies such as High Noon and Blazing Saddles because of their morals.
- 3/3/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When producer Mike Frankovich set out to make "The Shootist," he did not initially pursue John Wayne for the role of J.B. Brooks, a lawman-turned-gunfighter who discovers he is dying from cancer. Given the elegiac tone of Glendon Swarthout's novel, and Wayne's real-life battle with cancer, you'd think he would've been at the top of Frankovich's list. Alas, Wayne's health was in steep decline; he'd struggled through the shoot of 1975's "Rooster Cogburn," and was likely not up to the task of one last leading-man part. But when top Hollywood stars like Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, George C. Scott, and Gene Hackman passed on the project, the universe seemed to be telling the producer there was only one man for this particular job.
Frankovich finally caved and offered the part to Wayne, who not only accepted but proved to be a boon to the film's casting prospects.
Frankovich finally caved and offered the part to Wayne, who not only accepted but proved to be a boon to the film's casting prospects.
- 10/12/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
John and Matthew are watching every single live-action film starring Meryl Streep.
#46 —Altha Carter, a minister’s wife who gives comfort to three disturbed women.
John: The Homesman is one of the best films Meryl Streep has ever had the good fortune to be in, and yet, she’s on screen for no more than five minutes. Set circa 1850 in the Nebraska territory, Tommy Lee Jones’ adaptation of Glendon Swarthout’s novel is a gorgeous and unsettling theatrical follow-up to his 2005 stunner The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Hilary Swank stars as Mary Bee Cuddy, a self-sufficient spinster who volunteers to transport three insane women from their town to a church in Hebron, Iowa that cares for mentally ill patients...
#46 —Altha Carter, a minister’s wife who gives comfort to three disturbed women.
John: The Homesman is one of the best films Meryl Streep has ever had the good fortune to be in, and yet, she’s on screen for no more than five minutes. Set circa 1850 in the Nebraska territory, Tommy Lee Jones’ adaptation of Glendon Swarthout’s novel is a gorgeous and unsettling theatrical follow-up to his 2005 stunner The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Hilary Swank stars as Mary Bee Cuddy, a self-sufficient spinster who volunteers to transport three insane women from their town to a church in Hebron, Iowa that cares for mentally ill patients...
- 11/15/2018
- by Matthew Eng
- FilmExperience
Heading for Spring Break somewhere? Long before Girls Gone Wild, kids of the Kennedy years found their own paths to the desired fun in the sun, and most of them came back alive. MGM’s comedic look at the Ft. Lauderdale exodus is a half-corny but fully endearing show, featuring the great Dolores Hart and the debuts of Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss and Jim Hutton.
Where the Boys Are
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1960 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date July 25, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Jim Hutton
Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Frank Gorshin, Barbara Nichols, Chill Wills.
Cinematography: Robert Bronner
Art Direction: Preston Ames, George W. Davis
Film Editor: Fredric Steinkamp
Original Music: Pete Rugolo, Neil Sedaka, George Stoll, Victor Young
Written by George Wells from a novel by Glendon Swarthout
Produced by Joe Pasternak
Directed by Henry Levin
Ah yes, in 1960 first-wave Rock...
Where the Boys Are
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1960 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date July 25, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Jim Hutton
Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Frank Gorshin, Barbara Nichols, Chill Wills.
Cinematography: Robert Bronner
Art Direction: Preston Ames, George W. Davis
Film Editor: Fredric Steinkamp
Original Music: Pete Rugolo, Neil Sedaka, George Stoll, Victor Young
Written by George Wells from a novel by Glendon Swarthout
Produced by Joe Pasternak
Directed by Henry Levin
Ah yes, in 1960 first-wave Rock...
- 7/26/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
★★★★☆ The Homesman (2014) is a rare and genuine entry into the Western film canon. It's lyrical. It's heartfelt. It's gruesome. Most importantly, it endows humanity to its cast of characters who are found bearing the brunt of a gritty life on the frontier of North America. Adapted from the Glendon Swarthout novel of the same name, this film marks Tommy Lee Jones' fourth outing as director and his third Western. Despite his firm directorial hand, its concerns are with the weight of grief and persevering nature of women in duress. After a particularly harsh winter in the Nebraska Territory, independent spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) finds herself tasked with the transport of three mentally and spiritually broken wives back to Iowa.
- 3/23/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
As that classic media intro says, “return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear”, for this new release is set in the old West. This was a classic backdrop for so many films, going back over one hundred years to The Great Train Robbery, but the Western has become a rarity in the last decade or so. Recent attempts at big budget revivals like Cowboys & Aliens and last Summer’s reboot of The Lone Ranger were box office sinkholes. But happily, more modestly budgeted independent films have taken up the reins. One of the stars that seems quite at ease on horseback is Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones, so it was no great surprise that his feature film directing debut nine years ago was a modern-day Western, The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada. For his film making return Jones has gone back, nearly a century and a half, to...
- 11/28/2014
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – In Tommy Lee Jones’ passion project “The Homesman,” the wild west provides a vivid setting for a battle in man’s endless war against women, as the film firmly occupying a genre strictly known for cowboys and pioneer machismo. It’s a sorrowful western from actor/writer/director Jones that often shines in its twilight, hoping to slightly reconcile the maltreatment unleashed on half of the world’s most powerful species.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Living outside standard domestic criteria of a developing America in the mid 1800s is Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank), a woman without a spouse or a child, who only takes care of herself and her giant farm. When three extremely psychologically-disturbed women are in need of transport to a hospital up north where they can receive help, Mary Bee volunteers to take on the journey, despite the town initially requiring that a man lead the expedition.
Meanwhile,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Living outside standard domestic criteria of a developing America in the mid 1800s is Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank), a woman without a spouse or a child, who only takes care of herself and her giant farm. When three extremely psychologically-disturbed women are in need of transport to a hospital up north where they can receive help, Mary Bee volunteers to take on the journey, despite the town initially requiring that a man lead the expedition.
Meanwhile,...
- 11/23/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Fancy some misery? How about a big hefty dollop of it, complete with hangings, rape and one too many graphic baby deaths? Then, the fourth movie Tommy Lee Jones has directed in his illustrious career, is right up your alleyway. Based on the Glendon Swarthout novel, The Homesman follows three women who have been driven mad by their pioneer way of life. With various degrees of bat shit craziness between them, they are to be transported across the country by Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) and George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones). This journey is not without incident as in between bouts of howling, snarling and some brief (thankfully) flashbacks, our hapless, unlikely couple find themselves trading a horse to buy safe passage from a bunch of Indians and Briggs get’s drunk…twice. The Homesman is as bleak as the barren wasteland it’s set in, with little and nothing...
- 11/22/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
The Homesman
Written for the screen by Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley A. Oliver
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones
France/USA, 2014
“That’s all there is, there ain’t no more.”
Set during the pioneer era, The Homesman subverts the usual trajectory of westerns set in this time by instead focusing on a journey from what will eventually become Nebraska territory in the West to more Eastern Iowa, wherein defeat via the frontier is a primary concern, whether it be a defeat of the mind, body, soul, or all together. Director Tommy Lee Jones’s last theatrically released film was The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), a contemporary neo-western with shades of Sam Peckinpah in its flavour. The Homesman may have the set dressing of a more traditional, old-school genre entry, but this film, adapted from Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel, is much more offbeat than one might expect.
Written for the screen by Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley A. Oliver
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones
France/USA, 2014
“That’s all there is, there ain’t no more.”
Set during the pioneer era, The Homesman subverts the usual trajectory of westerns set in this time by instead focusing on a journey from what will eventually become Nebraska territory in the West to more Eastern Iowa, wherein defeat via the frontier is a primary concern, whether it be a defeat of the mind, body, soul, or all together. Director Tommy Lee Jones’s last theatrically released film was The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), a contemporary neo-western with shades of Sam Peckinpah in its flavour. The Homesman may have the set dressing of a more traditional, old-school genre entry, but this film, adapted from Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel, is much more offbeat than one might expect.
- 11/22/2014
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Depression, madness and sympathy in 19th-century Nebraska make for a confident, insightful film
• Tommy Lee Jones on The Homesman: ‘It’s a consideration of American imperialism’
Tommy Lee Jones’s terrifically confident frontier western has inspired a variety of responses since its first appearance at festivals earlier this year. It has been suspected of misogyny – and then defended as feminist. Neither is quite accurate, although ideological responses have probably been amplified by critical shock at a certain late-breaking narrative development. The performances are great. Director Jones also stars as George Briggs, and awards himself plenty of closeups and big scenes. Briggs is a boozy, ornery old devil in mid-19th-century Nebraska. He fatefully encounters Mary Bee Cuddy: a respectable, courageous and heartbreakingly lonely unmarried woman superbly played by Hilary Swank. Like the decent woman that she is, Mary Bee has volunteered for the grim job of caring for three...
• Tommy Lee Jones on The Homesman: ‘It’s a consideration of American imperialism’
Tommy Lee Jones’s terrifically confident frontier western has inspired a variety of responses since its first appearance at festivals earlier this year. It has been suspected of misogyny – and then defended as feminist. Neither is quite accurate, although ideological responses have probably been amplified by critical shock at a certain late-breaking narrative development. The performances are great. Director Jones also stars as George Briggs, and awards himself plenty of closeups and big scenes. Briggs is a boozy, ornery old devil in mid-19th-century Nebraska. He fatefully encounters Mary Bee Cuddy: a respectable, courageous and heartbreakingly lonely unmarried woman superbly played by Hilary Swank. Like the decent woman that she is, Mary Bee has volunteered for the grim job of caring for three...
- 11/20/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Tommy Lee Jones; Screenwriters: Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley A Oliver; Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, William Fichtner; Running time: 123 mins; Certificate: 15
Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in a far-out western, taking a radically different view on the macho politics of expansion with Hilary Swank co-starring as one of many unsung female pioneers. In one sense, it's a western in reverse as they're both headed back east with a wagon-load of women who have become unhinged by life in the dustbowl. But there's an eerie, haunting feel to the action that leaves a question mark hanging over what Jones is really trying to say about the female condition.
Swank must have seized upon the chance to play Mary Bee Cuddy and trade on the androgynous image that earned her Oscars for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby. Again, she's...
Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in a far-out western, taking a radically different view on the macho politics of expansion with Hilary Swank co-starring as one of many unsung female pioneers. In one sense, it's a western in reverse as they're both headed back east with a wagon-load of women who have become unhinged by life in the dustbowl. But there's an eerie, haunting feel to the action that leaves a question mark hanging over what Jones is really trying to say about the female condition.
Swank must have seized upon the chance to play Mary Bee Cuddy and trade on the androgynous image that earned her Oscars for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby. Again, she's...
- 11/18/2014
- Digital Spy
Hilary Swank already felt a strong connection to the frontier woman she plays in The Homesman - for which she's getting Oscar buzz - but she initially didn't realize that the story hit surprisingly close to home. Long after the actress, 40, wrapped her highly touted stint playing Mary Bee Cuddy - a single, independent woman living in the harsh, dangerous world of Nebraska's Great Plains in the 1850s - she discovered that a member of her own family experienced circumstances similar to one particular scene in the film. Swank's father Stephen recently shared accounts of their family history with her,...
- 11/17/2014
- by Scott Huver, @thehuve
- PEOPLE.com
Hilary Swank already felt a strong connection to the frontier woman she plays in The Homesman - for which she's getting Oscar buzz - but she initially didn't realize that the story hit surprisingly close to home. Long after the actress, 40, wrapped her highly touted stint playing Mary Bee Cuddy - a single, independent woman living in the harsh, dangerous world of Nebraska's Great Plains in the 1850s - she discovered that a member of her own family experienced circumstances similar to one particular scene in the film. Swank's father Stephen recently shared accounts of their family history with her,...
- 11/17/2014
- by Scott Huver, @thehuve
- PEOPLE.com
Just as he did with The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and The Sunset Limited, Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones takes on a variety of different duties with The Homesman. Based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout, Jones co-wrote, co-produced and directed the movie, and he also stars in it as George Briggs, a claim jumper who makes the acquaintance of the un-married, middle-aged Mary Bee Cuddy (Hillary Swank).
The movie takes place back in the 1850s, as Mary is escorting three women who show signs of insanity across the country. Realizing that she can’t transport these women on her own, she invites George along for the extra protection. Together, they make the oddest of couples as their journey proves to be very long and dangerous. However, it also turns out to be very transformative for them both.
On the surface, The Homesman looks like a western, but it...
The movie takes place back in the 1850s, as Mary is escorting three women who show signs of insanity across the country. Realizing that she can’t transport these women on her own, she invites George along for the extra protection. Together, they make the oddest of couples as their journey proves to be very long and dangerous. However, it also turns out to be very transformative for them both.
On the surface, The Homesman looks like a western, but it...
- 11/14/2014
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
This weekend’s onslaught of smaller new films will have awards contenders and big names to jostle with at the box office. Awards hopefuls Foxcatcher and The Homesman begin their theatrical runs in limited New York and L.A. rollouts, with the former a likely winner in the first weekend when the numbers come in Sunday. The films from Sony Pictures Classics and Roadside Attractions, respectively, tell particularly American stories, though from very different eras. The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart took time off in 2013 to work on his directorial debut. Open Road’s Rosewater, starring Gael García Bernal, will begin its theatrical rollout this weekend. It will be the biggest opener of this weekend’s cadre of specialty newcomers, playing in several hundred locations in the U.S. and Canada. Actor Chris Lowell also makes his filmmaking launch with Beside Still Waters. The project had smooth sailing until it came time for distribution,...
- 11/14/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Jumping Claims: Jones’ Attempt at Revisionist Western Withers Under its Own Intentions
Try as it might, The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones’ first directorial effort since his 2005 film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, fails to deliver an accurate rendering of the miserable plight of women in the Old West. While some are sure to embrace the superficial revisionist attempt at providing us with a feminist subtext, Jones actually manages to accomplish the opposite with a film that only highlights a male perspective’s well-meaning but misguided interpretation of a story about women. As it completely sells out on its main female protagonist, it’s clear that the project is merely a vanity piece where a multitude of characters are only utilized to compliment his presence, as well as a moment of convenient (and false pathos).
A thirty one year old spinster, Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) is a rare example...
Try as it might, The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones’ first directorial effort since his 2005 film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, fails to deliver an accurate rendering of the miserable plight of women in the Old West. While some are sure to embrace the superficial revisionist attempt at providing us with a feminist subtext, Jones actually manages to accomplish the opposite with a film that only highlights a male perspective’s well-meaning but misguided interpretation of a story about women. As it completely sells out on its main female protagonist, it’s clear that the project is merely a vanity piece where a multitude of characters are only utilized to compliment his presence, as well as a moment of convenient (and false pathos).
A thirty one year old spinster, Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) is a rare example...
- 11/12/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Times were rough when America was just starting out, and Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman (based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout) does not shy away from this fact, but despite the difficult situations The Homesman tackles, it never strips the country of its natural beauty. Bathing each frame in a warm glow of primal golds, The Homesman makes it clear from the start that home and community are what the characters are truly fighting for. Taking the director’s reins for a second time, Jones delivers a film that is surprisingly beautiful and humorous, but The Homesman falters when it comes to the narrative’s pacing and character development. Dealing with disease, famine and isolation, it’s not so surprising when three women in a developing town in rural Nebraska start to go mad. Their community and their faith hold them together, so when the town’s reverend (John Lithgow) decides that the women should...
- 11/12/2014
- by Allison Loring
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This is a reprint of our review from the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Eight years ago (gosh, was it really that long?), Tommy Lee Jones made his long-awaited feature directorial debut with the contemporary neo-western “The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada.” The film premiered at Cannes, and proved a big hit there, winning a Best Actor trophy for Jones, and a Best Screenplay prize for “Babel” scribe Guillermo Arriaga. But the film never quite found an audience outside the Croisette, and perhaps for that reason, the only thing that Jones has made in the meantime was a modest HBO adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Sunset Limited.” Until now, anyway. The actor-director is back at Cannes with “The Homesman,” an adaptation of the novel by Glendon Swarthout, and while ‘Three Burials’ certainly nodded at the Western, this is the full-fat version, full of settlers and pioneers and wagons and Indians. It...
- 11/12/2014
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
While age is nothing but a numerical label, one has to admire Tommy Lee Jones for actively seeking out passion projects this far into his career. After a storied legacy that includes an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and even an Emmy, Jones could simply sit back and let the offers roll in, but that’s not how this hard-working Hollywood maverick rolls. The Homesman is only Jones’ second directorial feature, adapted from Glendon Swarthout’s novelization, yet it’s a confident period piece harnessed through years of experience both on and behind the all-seeing camera lens. It’s a simple story about how cruel Western territories could be back in the gun-slinging-cowboy days, playing directly into Jones’ gruff and straight-shooting nature, but The Homesman also reveals a societal culture that’s incredibly foreign to today’s equal-opportunity world. Heavy on drama and light on shoot-outs, Jones certainly has an intriguing second effort on his hands,...
- 11/10/2014
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
The Homesman Roadside Attractions and Saban Films Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Tommy Lee Jones Screenwriter: Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley A. Oliver, based on Glendon Swarthout’s novel Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Mirando Otto, Sonja Richter, Hailee Steinfeld, James Spader, Meryl Streep Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 11/4/14 Opens: November 14, 2014 Say what you will about the problems of American aviation—miserable leg room, terrible food (if food is even served), cancellations, bad scheduling, delays—if you were around in 1854 you’d say “Where is Jet Blue now that we need it (and we’ll accept it with all [ Read More ]
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- 11/10/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Becoming a man of "true grit" earned John Wayne his only Oscar back in 1970. Could the same broken heroism push Tommy Lee Jones into the Oscar conversation? Adapted from Glendon Swarthout's novel and directed by the actor-turned-filmmaker, "The Homesman" pairs Jones with two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank for a dangerous western mission with a layer of gender politics. Shacked up with three mentally unstable women, Mary Bee Cuddy (Swank) employs George Briggs (Jones), a claim jumper she finds dangling from a tree in a noose, to escort the band of lone ladies from the Nebraska Territories to a new home in Iowa. In 1854, it's a mission only a fool would take. Our first official look at "The Homesman" has the makings of a solid western, gruff dialogue and deadly circumstances turned mesmerizing by "Argo" and "Babel" cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto's lush vistas. Jones and Swank have that Rooster Cogburn/Mattie Ross appeal,...
- 9/15/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
Having received a warm reception at Cannes 2014 in May, The Homesman will be hitting theaters stateside in a prime awards season spot - November 14th.
In his Variety’s review, critic Peter Debruge wrote, the film is a “sturdy cross-country Western.”
The Homesman stars Academy Award-winners Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank, with a supporting cast featuring Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Tim Blake Nelson, Academy Award-nominees John Lithgow and Hailee Steinfeld, James Spader and Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep.
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her.
The unlikely pair and the three women (Grace Gummer,...
In his Variety’s review, critic Peter Debruge wrote, the film is a “sturdy cross-country Western.”
The Homesman stars Academy Award-winners Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank, with a supporting cast featuring Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Tim Blake Nelson, Academy Award-nominees John Lithgow and Hailee Steinfeld, James Spader and Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep.
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her.
The unlikely pair and the three women (Grace Gummer,...
- 9/13/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Tommy Lee Jones-directed frontier film The Homesman will be the centerpiece pic at this year's Hamptons International Film Festival, it was announced Tuesday. The Hamptons screening will mark the East Coast premiere for the title, which debuted at Cannes. The Homesman is based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-nominee Glendon Swarthout about three women living on the edge of the American frontier who are pushed to the brink and saved by Hilary Swank's Mary Bee Cuddy, who transports them by covered wagon to Iowa, where a waiting minister and his wife (Meryl Streep) have offered to take
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- 8/26/2014
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Haim Saban’s nascent distributor led by Bill Bromiley has struck up a one-off partnership with Roadside Attractions on the Cannes competition entry as the parties plot an awards run.
Tommy Lee Jones’ second outing as feature director will open on November 7 and stars Jones and Hilary Swank alongside Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Hailee Steinfeld and James Spader.
Saban Films will manage sales across all other Us distribution platforms, pursuant to what is believed to be its long-term focus of digital rights exploitation and day-and-date releases. EuropaCorp handles international sales.
Bromiley and his team are in talks with a studio partner to handle North American theatrical distribution going forward on an anticipated annual slate of eight to 10 films.
The Homesman marked Saban Films’ first acquisition and took place on the Croisette. Saban Films will put up the P&A and Roadside will take care of the disitrbution logistics and consult with Saban on marketing...
Tommy Lee Jones’ second outing as feature director will open on November 7 and stars Jones and Hilary Swank alongside Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Hailee Steinfeld and James Spader.
Saban Films will manage sales across all other Us distribution platforms, pursuant to what is believed to be its long-term focus of digital rights exploitation and day-and-date releases. EuropaCorp handles international sales.
Bromiley and his team are in talks with a studio partner to handle North American theatrical distribution going forward on an anticipated annual slate of eight to 10 films.
The Homesman marked Saban Films’ first acquisition and took place on the Croisette. Saban Films will put up the P&A and Roadside will take care of the disitrbution logistics and consult with Saban on marketing...
- 6/20/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Haim Saban’s nascent distributor led by Bill Bromiley has struck up a one-off partnership with Roadside Attractions on Cannes competition entry The Homesman as the parties plot an awards run.
The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones’ second outing as feature director, will open on November 7 and stars Jones and Hilary Swank alongside Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Hailee Steinfeld and James Spader.
Saban Films will manage sales across all other Us distribution platforms, pursuant to what is believed to be its long-term focus of digital rights exploitation and day-and-date releases. EuropaCorp handles international sales.
Bromiley and his team are in talks with a studio partner to handle North American theatrical distribution going forward on an anticipated annual slate of eight to 10 films.
The Homesman marked Saban Films’ first acquisition and took place on the Croisette. Saban Films will put up the P&A and Roadside will take care of the disitrbution logistics and consult...
The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones’ second outing as feature director, will open on November 7 and stars Jones and Hilary Swank alongside Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Hailee Steinfeld and James Spader.
Saban Films will manage sales across all other Us distribution platforms, pursuant to what is believed to be its long-term focus of digital rights exploitation and day-and-date releases. EuropaCorp handles international sales.
Bromiley and his team are in talks with a studio partner to handle North American theatrical distribution going forward on an anticipated annual slate of eight to 10 films.
The Homesman marked Saban Films’ first acquisition and took place on the Croisette. Saban Films will put up the P&A and Roadside will take care of the disitrbution logistics and consult...
- 6/20/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Haim Saban announced today that after launching Saban Films last week the company has acquired North American distribution rights to Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman, starring Jones and Academy Award winner Hilary Swank, with a supporting cast featuring Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Academy Award nominee Hailee Steinfeld, James Spader and Academy Award winner Meryl Streep.
The story centers around a claim jumper and a pioneer woman who team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.
In his Cannes review, Todd McCarthy’s (THR) writes: “In what’s probably her best big screen role since Million Dollar Baby, Swank is obliged to keep Mary Bee’s emotions in tight check, but the pain her valiant character bottles up emerges in piercing flashes to lasting effect. Jones’ scalawag is a man on the run from everything he’s ever done in his life, and...
The story centers around a claim jumper and a pioneer woman who team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.
In his Cannes review, Todd McCarthy’s (THR) writes: “In what’s probably her best big screen role since Million Dollar Baby, Swank is obliged to keep Mary Bee’s emotions in tight check, but the pain her valiant character bottles up emerges in piercing flashes to lasting effect. Jones’ scalawag is a man on the run from everything he’s ever done in his life, and...
- 5/22/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Diana Drumm is reporting from Cannes for the The Film Experience.
Based on the award-winning novel (that Paul Newman was attached to for years) by Glendon Swarthout (“The Shootist”), The Homesman is a bizarre, unwieldy Western about 31 year-old spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) and questionable character Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones) who are driving three insane women (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter) back East for treatment, or at least respite from their literally-maddening frontier lives.
Or for a convoluted, reference-laden way to generalize it all, think of The Homesman as an inverse of the Robert Taylor-starring not-quite-classic Westward The Women (1951) meets the Glenn Close-starring made-for-tv movie Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991) with the madness and mismatches of Quills (2000, Briggs being the less couth, toned down subversive Marquis) divided by the stunning Western cinematography of Brokeback Mountain (2005, via Oscar nominee Rodrigo Prieto). Apologies, my brain is flooded with movies.
Based on the award-winning novel (that Paul Newman was attached to for years) by Glendon Swarthout (“The Shootist”), The Homesman is a bizarre, unwieldy Western about 31 year-old spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) and questionable character Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones) who are driving three insane women (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter) back East for treatment, or at least respite from their literally-maddening frontier lives.
Or for a convoluted, reference-laden way to generalize it all, think of The Homesman as an inverse of the Robert Taylor-starring not-quite-classic Westward The Women (1951) meets the Glenn Close-starring made-for-tv movie Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991) with the madness and mismatches of Quills (2000, Briggs being the less couth, toned down subversive Marquis) divided by the stunning Western cinematography of Brokeback Mountain (2005, via Oscar nominee Rodrigo Prieto). Apologies, my brain is flooded with movies.
- 5/20/2014
- by Diana D Drumm
- FilmExperience
Based on a novel by Glendon Swarthout, Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman is set in the 1850s American mid-West, and follows the journey of George Briggs (Jones) and Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) as they head east with three women in tow. These three women have been driven mad by the harshness of their lives, by bereavement and by heartbreak.
Mary Bee is a God-fearing woman who has a homestead as neat as a pin, money in the bank and plans for the future. What she lacks is a companion to share all of this, but when she openly courts her neighbour, he turns her proposal down because: “You’re plain as a pail and you’re bossy”. This bossy and single woman volunteers to take her three demented neighbours back to more civilised climes when the men are far from willing to step up. Coming across Griggs with a noose around his neck,...
Mary Bee is a God-fearing woman who has a homestead as neat as a pin, money in the bank and plans for the future. What she lacks is a companion to share all of this, but when she openly courts her neighbour, he turns her proposal down because: “You’re plain as a pail and you’re bossy”. This bossy and single woman volunteers to take her three demented neighbours back to more civilised climes when the men are far from willing to step up. Coming across Griggs with a noose around his neck,...
- 5/19/2014
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cannes - Charged with devising a character name that immediately conveys staunch feminine pluck and perseverance, I'm not sure any writer could do much better than Mary Bee Cuddy -- the disarming heroine of Tommy Lee Jones' handsome, elegiac neo-western "The Homesman," until she rather unsettlingly isn't. Just listen to the way those pithy syllables roll (or march, rather) off the tongue: a Mary Bee Cuddy can only be as square and grounded and business-meaning as a pair of sensible shoes. As played by the eternally purposeful Hilary Swank, moreover, she's an anchor of sincerity in a film in a film that needs one, shifting as it often does from loutish comedy to sticky sentimentality in the turn of a wagon-wheel. Only superficially, then, is "The Homesman" the directorial follow-up you'd expect to Jones's debut feature "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," a similarly handsome, burnished and serious-minded western...
- 5/18/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
As an actor, Tommy Lee Jones has a face and temperament made for westerns, so it's no surprise that his scant credits behind the camera are almost exclusively limited to the genre. Released nearly a decade ago, "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" took a sullen approach to an offbeat revenge tale while drawing on literary and real-world reference points. However, that film is downright muted compared to Jones' latest effort, "The Homesman." Adapting Glendon Swarthout's novel, Jones constructs a hodgepodge of western pastiches and revisions without settling into a unified groove. It ranks as one of the strangest projects of the 66-year-old Jones' career—as well as the most unorthodox entry in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Curiously funny when it's not tragic or bluntly sentimental, "The Homesman" is one of the weirdest American westerns since Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man," though hardly as cohesive. Jones'...
- 5/18/2014
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Eight years ago (gosh, was it really that long?), Tommy Lee Jones made his long-awaited feature directorial debut with the contemporary neo-western “The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada.” The film premiered at Cannes, and proved a big hit there, winning a Best Actor trophy for Jones, and a Best Screenplay prize for “Babel” scribe Guillermo Arriaga. But the film never quite found an audience outside the Croisette, and perhaps for that reason, the only thing that Jones has made in the meantime was a modest HBO adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Sunset Limited.” Until now, anyway. The actor-director is back at Cannes with “The Homesman,” an adaptation of the novel by Glendon Swarthout, and while ‘Three Burials’ certainly nodded at the Western, this is the full-fat version, full of settlers and pioneers and wagons and Indians. It’s also a much less fully-formed and complete picture than its predecessor,...
- 5/18/2014
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
The rough lot handed to women in the Old West remains a footnote in the cinematic history of cowboy days, but it figures front and center in The Homesman. Tommy Lee Jones’ adaptation of the late Glendon Swarthout’s flavorful 1988 novel is both lyrical and shocking, weirdly funny and grimly serious. Fronted by fine and wise performances by Hilary Swank as a self-sufficient unmarried pioneer charged with transporting three insane women back East and by Jones himself as a shiftless claim-jumper obliged to help her, this beautifully crafted film intrigues as a story never told before and ratchets
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- 5/18/2014
- by Todd McCarthy
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Welcome back to Cannes Check, In Contention's annual preview of the films in Competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 14. Taking on different selections every day, we'll be examining what they're about, who's involved and what their chances are of snagging an award from Jane Campion's jury. Next up, one of the starrier entries in the lineup: Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman." The director: Tommy Lee Jones (American, 67 years old). Well, you know -- it's Tommy Lee Jones. The Texas-born, Harvard-educated actor began his acting career on Broadway, and landed his first film role in the 1970 smash "Love Story" before beginning a five-year stint on the soap opera "One Life to Live." His big-screen breakthrough came in the 1980 Oscar winner "Coal Miner's Daughter"; he picked up an Emmy for one of several TV movies he made in the decade, and his first Oscar nod in 1992 for "JFK.
- 5/9/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Ever since the Cannes International Film Festival knocked down a few walls between itself and the West in 2001 with festival director Thierry Frémaux coming on board to liven up the Croisette with more of a Hollywood acceptance, the connection between the annual May event and the awards season has become more pronounced. Films like Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge!," Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel" and David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence" all started their Oscar trajectories in the south of France, while others like Paul Greengrass' "United 93," Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and "Midnight in Paris" and Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" got high profile beginnings out of Competition. A coveted Palme d'Or win sometimes leads to a significant boost in the Oscar season, even if no recipient of the festival's...
- 4/18/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Croisette regulars veterans Jean Luc Godard, Ken Loach and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne will compete alongside Competition first-timers Alice Rohrwacher, Xavier Dolan and Damian Szifron at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced the Official Selection of the 67th edition on Thursday (17) at a packed press conference at the Normandie Cinema on the Champs Elysées in Paris.
“Anyone who makes a film of more than one hour in duration, has the right to submit a film to Cannes… this year we received some 1,800 films in total – all of which were screened,” said Fremaux.
He announced 49 titles in total from 28 countries and hinted a further two or three could be announced ahead of Cannes. [Click here for the full list.]
Fremaux, who tied up the line-up at 1am local time ahead of the announcement, said films were arriving later and later for consideration due to digitisation of filmmaking.
“It used to be that January was late,” he said. “Now...
Artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced the Official Selection of the 67th edition on Thursday (17) at a packed press conference at the Normandie Cinema on the Champs Elysées in Paris.
“Anyone who makes a film of more than one hour in duration, has the right to submit a film to Cannes… this year we received some 1,800 films in total – all of which were screened,” said Fremaux.
He announced 49 titles in total from 28 countries and hinted a further two or three could be announced ahead of Cannes. [Click here for the full list.]
Fremaux, who tied up the line-up at 1am local time ahead of the announcement, said films were arriving later and later for consideration due to digitisation of filmmaking.
“It used to be that January was late,” he said. “Now...
- 4/17/2014
- ScreenDaily
Tommy Lee Jones has directed two TV movies (most recently The Sunset Limited) and one great theatrical feature, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Now he has finished another film, which adapts Glendon Swarthout’s novel The Homesman. Jones’ movie will likely premiere at Cannes, and has a French release planned for May. The first Homesman trailer […]
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- 4/15/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
The first trailer for writer/director Tommy Lee Jones' sophomore theatrical feature "The Homesman," an all-American Western starring Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep and Jones himself, has landed. Watch below. Adapted from the Glendon Swarthout's 1988 novel about a man-of-the-land and a pioneer woman who team up to escort three troubled women from Nebraska to Iowa, this is Jones' directorial followup to "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" (2005) and it costars James Spader, Hailee Steinfeld, Tim Blake Nelson, William Fichtner and Jesse Plemons. Written by Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald and Wesley Oliver, "The Homesman"'s stateside release date is forthcoming.
- 4/15/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Today we have the first international trailer for Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman" drama, co-starring Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep, James Spader, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, and Hailee Steinfeld. Check it out below. Plot: The story focuses on an untrustworthy man and a spinster school teacher, who team up to transport three women deemed crazy via ox-drawn wagon across the Western plains. The new film is written and directed by Jones, and is based on a novel by Glendon Swarthout. A release date has yet to be announced. Trailer:...
- 4/15/2014
- WorstPreviews.com
Tommy Lee Jones returns to the director's chair to helm and star in the western "The Homesman". Meryl Streep, Hailee Steinfeld, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, William Fichtner and Jesse Plemons co-star. No release date has yet been announced.
An adaptation of Glendon Swarthout's novel, Jones plays a claim jumper who is given a daunting task by a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) to escort three crazed young women (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto and Sonja Richter) from Nebraska to Iowa.
An adaptation of Glendon Swarthout's novel, Jones plays a claim jumper who is given a daunting task by a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) to escort three crazed young women (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto and Sonja Richter) from Nebraska to Iowa.
- 4/15/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
I love that Tommy Lee Jones is carrying a torch for the western genre. He gave us "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" nearly a decade ago and 10 years prior, his directorial debut was the TV movie "The Good Old Boys." Now he's saddling back up (so to speak) with "The Homesman," and like "Three Burials," we can probably expect it to debut at Cannes next month. The film, based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout ("The Shootist"), stars Jones as a claim jumper who teams up with a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) to escort three insane women from Nebraska to a sanitarium in Iowa. During the unkind days of the Old West, souls and minds were broken aplenty. It's the kind of story you don't often hear about in the genre, which makes me excited to see what Jones has done with it. This looks to be a tale of a misfit making good,...
- 4/14/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
I've been anxiously awaiting this trailer so let's hitch our Yes No Maybe So wagon to Hilary Swank's as she transports three crazies across the country to Iowa in the western The Homesman. We knew from interviews and a cursory knowledge of the novelist Glendon Swarthout only a handful of things before seeing this trailer.
Oh nos. Nathaniel is talking about me again.
1. Six of Swarthout's other books have been adapted for the screen, most famously the ür spring break girls-gone-wild movie Where the Boys Are (1960) and The Shootist (1976) starring John Wayne
2. "The Homesman" refers to the job title that Swank's farmer character Mary Bee Cuddy signs on to perform, carting insane women across the country
3. Meryl Streep's role is small and she has no scenes with Swank (according to Swank herself) but her character has some part in collecting the three women in the wagon
4. It's directed...
Oh nos. Nathaniel is talking about me again.
1. Six of Swarthout's other books have been adapted for the screen, most famously the ür spring break girls-gone-wild movie Where the Boys Are (1960) and The Shootist (1976) starring John Wayne
2. "The Homesman" refers to the job title that Swank's farmer character Mary Bee Cuddy signs on to perform, carting insane women across the country
3. Meryl Streep's role is small and she has no scenes with Swank (according to Swank herself) but her character has some part in collecting the three women in the wagon
4. It's directed...
- 4/14/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The first trailer for Tommy Lee Jones' latest, The Homesman , is now online and viewable in the player below. The international trailer arrives courtesy of EuropaCorp . Writing alongside Kieran Fitzgerald and Wesley A. Oliver, Jones brings to the screen the novel by Glendon Swarthout with an ensemble cast that also includes Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep, James Spader, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, David Dencik, Hailee Steinfeld and Jesse Plemons. The Homesman , which is currently without a domestic release date, sees an untrustworthy man and a spinster school teacher team up to transport three women deemed crazy via ox-drawn wagon across the Western plains.
- 4/14/2014
- Comingsoon.net
The Homesman
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Writers: Kieran Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley A. Oliver
Producers: Luc Besson, Peter Brant, Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, David Dencik, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, William Fichtner
If we technically don’t include his two made for television films, this would be Tommy Lee Jones’ second, much anticipated outing — almost a decade since he delivered the exquisite The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, a thinking man’s slow-burner Western where hardened faces (both genders) converge with justice served piping hot. Jones takes on multiple duties once again for The Homesman and his cinemtagrpaher happens to be the great Rodrigo Prieto.
Gist: Based on Glendon Swarthout’s novel, this is about a claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Writers: Kieran Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley A. Oliver
Producers: Luc Besson, Peter Brant, Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, David Dencik, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, William Fichtner
If we technically don’t include his two made for television films, this would be Tommy Lee Jones’ second, much anticipated outing — almost a decade since he delivered the exquisite The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, a thinking man’s slow-burner Western where hardened faces (both genders) converge with justice served piping hot. Jones takes on multiple duties once again for The Homesman and his cinemtagrpaher happens to be the great Rodrigo Prieto.
Gist: Based on Glendon Swarthout’s novel, this is about a claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.
- 2/5/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Box Office Busts! week concludes at Trailers from Hell with TV writer-producer Alan Spencer introducing Stanley Kramer's 1971 film "Bless the Beasts and Children."After a run of distinguished films during the sixties, socially committed producer-director Kramer’s downhill slide accelerated with this somewhat prescient but pretentious adaptation of Glendon Swarthout’s well-regarded novel about emotionally disturbed teens at a summer camp who try to prevent a buffalo slaughter. This gimmicky trailer, a faux interview between actor Bill Mumy and a supposed rep of the NRA, would have been more convincing had they cast an actor less familiar than busy character type Douglas Kennedy as the spokesman.
- 8/23/2013
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
The beach party film featuring bikini-clad girls and beefcake guys became a B-movie Californian genre in the 1960s and ultimately led up to TV's vacuous Baywatch. It's generally thought to have been launched in 1960 with MGM's highly popular Where the Boys Are, based on a sober, sociological novel by Glendon Swarthout about a quartet of female midwestern students spending their spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It had a title song by Connie Francis and was produced by the prolific Joe Pasternak, now best remembered for saying of Esther Williams, "Wet she was a star."
Camille Paglia regards Where the Boys Are as a significant and truthful comment on changing social and sexual mores in the 1960s, and Harmony Korine's brash homage to Pasternak's film has attracted similar, if rather more equivocal tributes. Korine made his name as screenwriter on Larry Clark's dubious 1995 film Kids about the spread...
Camille Paglia regards Where the Boys Are as a significant and truthful comment on changing social and sexual mores in the 1960s, and Harmony Korine's brash homage to Pasternak's film has attracted similar, if rather more equivocal tributes. Korine made his name as screenwriter on Larry Clark's dubious 1995 film Kids about the spread...
- 4/8/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales is among many classic Westerns shot in Kanab.
The annual Western Legends Roundup will take place on August 26-28 in Kanab, Utah, where many classic Westerns were filmed. The town also boasts major sets still standing from the Clint Eastwood film The Outlaw Josey Wales. Additionally, many favorite stars from Western films and TV series will be appearing including James Drury, Peter Brown, Clint Walker, Ed Faulkner and Glendon Swarthout, screenwriter of John Wayne's The Shootist. The weekend is jam-packed with many activities that will appeal to retro movie lovers. Click here for details...
The annual Western Legends Roundup will take place on August 26-28 in Kanab, Utah, where many classic Westerns were filmed. The town also boasts major sets still standing from the Clint Eastwood film The Outlaw Josey Wales. Additionally, many favorite stars from Western films and TV series will be appearing including James Drury, Peter Brown, Clint Walker, Ed Faulkner and Glendon Swarthout, screenwriter of John Wayne's The Shootist. The weekend is jam-packed with many activities that will appeal to retro movie lovers. Click here for details...
- 8/22/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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