A superb historical film which explores the myth and reality of the tough trappers who roamed the unconquered West in the 1850s. Tenderfoot Jeremiah learns to fish, trap beaver, tell one Indian from another and stay alive. And all shot on location in fantastically beautiful desolate Utah snowscapes.
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RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND (1965)
CertificationPG Our Rating
'Ride In The Whirlwind' was a cheapie shot back-to-back with 'The Shooting' and scripted by Jack Nicholson telling the story of three cowboys mistaken for outlaws and hunted by a band of vigilantes until two are dead and the third becomes a killer in self-defence. A gritty, stylised cult western.
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THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (1964)
Certification15 Our Rating
To spark up or not to spark up? This rambling, flamboyant, incoherent ‘head movie' should be approached with caution by anyone who hasn't got any drugs in their system. In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story. On a trip to Madrid a Belgian soldier takes a short cut across the mountains, a land of robbers, body snatching gypsies and devils, and stays at an inn named the Venta Quemada....Luis Buñuel (who seldom viewed movies more than once) liked t
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THE SHOOTING (1967)
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The story follows Willett Gashade, an ex-bounty hunter who returns home searching for his brother, only to discover that he has disappeared. He is met by Coley, a frazzled cowboy and along with a beautiful but tempestuous woman the eclectic trio set out across the Utah desert. Along the way Gashade is reluctantly joined by the menacing presence of bounty hunter Billy Spear and as the tension escalates so violence becomes inevitable. Monte Hellman reinvented the Western genre with 'The Shooting',
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