. Frank Silvera. I like this idea about the similarity between detective fiction and western fiction. These plans failed to materialize when Lancaster got involved in the 1970 movie Airport. What kind of man is that? By creating an account, you agree to the The only one he shows mercy to is Davis, after the gunman screams, "I cut you loose! The film is a blast to watch. The revenge plot as I conceive it from many Westerns and the examples I mentioned, require that the revenge be taken on the guilty and that the guilty ones recognize that their fate is the result of an act of vengeance. Coming Soon. Burt Lancaster plays a Mexican in this one. . Cast & Crew Read More Edwin Sherin Director Burt Lancaster [Bob] Valdez Susan Clark Gay Erin Frank Silvera Diego [Luz] Jon Cypher Frank Tanner It's one of those vendetta entertainments that often frequent the multiplexes in the 60's and 70's when the rules, thanks in large part to Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch", were starting to be broken. Towards the end Valdez and the lady ride at each other, the horses clashing and falling. Valdez is coming! Other examples would be Paul Newman as "Hombre" (1967) and Chuck Connors as "Geronimo" (1962). This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of serviceapply. Ive never been able to read Leonards crime fiction, but Ive not tried his westerns. John Koestler's kids are central to why some still want the Knowing ending explained. Appalling! His adventures are solitary statements. how original. Aging town constable Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) is tricked into killing an innocent African-American man by powerful rancher Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher), whose hired gun R.L. Burt Lancaster gives a great, artistic and very reserved performance as a very tired, lonely man who looks unassuming but should just not be messed with. With her in restraints, Valdez proceeds to systematically do away with the men Tanner sends after him with his long-range Sharps rifle. Dont worry, it wont take long. This is just a crackerjack movie, compelling from start to finish without losing a carefully crafted artistry that any movie lover would appreciate. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Weekly Recommendation Thread, Suggested Reading page, or ask in r/suggestmeabook. Valdez confronts her and she admits that it was she who killed her own husband in order to be with Tanner, not the other way around. Valdez wins and Tanner loses everything. He was a highly successful black actor/director in the 1950s and 1960s who - because of his light-skinned appearance - transcended race and ethnicity in his performances. "Valdez" was actor Jon Cyper"s big-screen debut. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres, or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Valdez believes it would be a fair gesture to raise $200 for the widow, $100 from Tanner and the rest from others in town. Posters are sourced from TMDb and Posteritati, and appear for you and visitors to your profile and content, depending on settings. Instead, a Regiment would have been commanded by a Colonel. Amazon Prime released the final batch of The Man in the High Castle Season 4 episodes on November 15, bringing the series to an end with a closing scene that left many fans confused as dozens of . Now he has two hostages. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Soundtracks submission guide. (765) 6.7 1 h 30 min 1971 PG-13. But, then, its not as though you should actually have to *buy* a copy of the book, anyway. No, it ends just like that. The dialogue is cool and captures that nonchalance that is so characteristically Elmore Leonard. This is not a spaghetti western!!! Director: Edwin Sherin Writers: Roland Kibbee (screenplay), David Rayfiel (screenplay) If I were try to come up with a strict list of requirements, Cask would probably fail because the injuries to the narrator are never shown or even specified, and not knowing for what revenge is being taken dulls its edge considerably. Similarly, in their respective big-screen debuts, Hector Elizondo is good as Tanner's second-in-command, and Richard Jordan of "Raise the Titanic" has a supporting role. A sure must for any serious Western fan. He finds an oasis blocked by two trees that he repeatedly tries to ram with the ends of the cross. This film reminded me somewhat of Charles Bronson's first big box office hit, "Chato's Land". All right, you pay for the man and you get your woman.. Rating: PG-13. Unfortunately for Tanner, he has picked on the wrong man: Valdez is a wily, experienced Indian fighter and a marksman with a rifle. What was wonderful was how well these writers captured the essence of Elmore Leonard: the clarity, the boiled-down-to-its-primary-ingredient precision, the humor to be found in the worst possible circumstances, the ability to flip a familiar phrase around to make it new and better. Regardless, the film is several notches above the usual Western. They take the form of detective stories, but turn self-referential and obscure, like postmodernist fiction, if Im using that term correctly. The putting him against the wall and tying him to the cross had made it something else. 25 Jun 2021. *****. The band of thugs, unlike the group chasing Chato, were up to the job of killing Valdez, but found their quarry to be more elusive than they had bargained for. For some reason, friends that are fans of both Burt Lancaster and/or westerns have not seen this movie. Occasionally, a film arrives with little or no fanfare and surprises many who expected just another film. this is why the genre is dying. He isn't a nice villain. The photograph of Valdez with the 7th Cavalry has a several errors. He was shown from underneath, like a giant with a shotgun in each hand. Privacy Policy When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do . He said to himself, What are you doing here alone? Even if his books look calm as Sunday on the outside, inside they're wild as mountain scenery. How often we are wrong. His work seems devoid of arcane mechanics, and it lends itself to imitation the way Van Gogh seems easy for students to copy: the brushstrokes are clear and distinct and bold. Valdez Is Coming. And I think there's nothing more important in writing than getting it right, the way people sound. This is true: just a few weeks back, I happened to pick up another novel from Elmore Leonard called 'Valdez is coming'. In this movie, Valdez appears as a part-time shotgun rider on the Hatch & Hodges stagecoach. Its been a while since I read Auster, but I dont think his books constitute satisfying detective stories. Although the Title, in 2016, could be a Warning coming out of a Donald Trump Rally, in 1971 it was from the Pen of Elmore Leonard's Social Consciousness along with Soul Traveler and Actor Burt Lancaster. It seems odd that the alien race chose to save Caleb and Abby and raise two strange human children, but it was so the human race could start again. I suspect, though, that youre just calling your course premises into question with your concern over the novels racial (and, it might be added, sexual) language. RL, in his only moment of kindness in the film, releases Valdez from his ropes after an incident when Bob tried to break the wood roped to his arms. When rancher Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher) hoodwinks local lawman Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) into shooting an innocent man, Valdez is remorseful and tries to take up a collection for the widow. Not very artful and undermined by some flat characterizations and run-of-the-mill elements; but Lancaster is very good and there are some inspired moments. Lancaster is interesting to watch as he plays the idealistic outsider up against the bigoted majority. It shouldnt happen but its happening. This is a moderated subreddit. At first, Rosemary resists, but when she hears the baby cry, her mothering instincts kick in, and she rocks the cradle. The desert-like terrain of this isolated region of Spain resembles the U.S. southwest and parts of Sonora, Mexico, though the vegetation is not the same. Hot off of reading the Elmore Leonard novel last night, I decided to give the film adaptation a watch since it's still fresh in my memory. While a Leonard character is telling plot stuff, the very shape and rhythm of the words as Leonard has framed them reveal the character's biography. Theres also a lot about its contexts that I dont know, and of course this is not the kind of novel thats available in a helpfully annotated edition! Show All, 91mins I dont know if the three short novels that make up Paul Austers New York Trilogy are considered anti-detective novels. Whatever else I take off depends on how lucky I get.". Some have noted similar elements in Sylvester Stallone's sole palatable Rambo item First Blood (war veteran unjustly marginalized and humiliated seeks bloody revenge - although in the genre context it probably owes a debt to the contemporary Western Lonely are the Brave as well). But the whole definition of pulp remains a problem that isnt going to get solved in the context of my class, thats for sure, since (as previously noted) the official description simply conflates pulp and genre fiction. The money is to go to the black man's pregnant Apache woman. [1] Plot [ edit] With all the computer generated garbage being put in theaters today, it's good to be able to turn on the western channel and see some real acting again. Taken from an Elmore Leonard novel, Lancaster stars as an aging half-Mexican town Constable who seeks justice for an Indian widow. Valdez Is Coming features a grim, unadorned romanticism. Valdez recovers and summons up his days in the U.S. Cavalry in order to fight them. I wonder it the way that Portis is anti-western works with certain detective fiction. Gay's lover is Frank Tanner(Jon Cypher), the leader of a band of cutthroats who lead the crusade to take out the black man who was mistaken for being the one who killed Gay's husband. Valdez is a low-key, obsequious sort until events force him to kill a man who was unjustly suspected of murder. His language goes to a purpose: in this case, the way that everything about Western society its race relations, its class disparities, its sexual hierarchies all descend inevitably into the singular outcome of righteous bloodshed. This is what I get for watching a movie based solely on the poster. Valdez Is Coming boldly recreates America's western frontier, a place where life was sometimes cheap. To ensure that Tanner will pay he takes as hostage his trophy girlfriend, the beautiful Gay Erin (Susan Clark), the widow of the aforementioned dead man that sparked the ongoing tragedy. The men are ordered to shoot, but R.L. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), There Was More To It: Elmore Leonard, Valdez Is Coming. But R.L. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Davis (Richard Jordan) shot up the hovel where the wrongly accused man and his Indian wife were trapped. The film opens with a town gathering in the desert led by local Frank Tanner (John Cypher) to which the stage coach carrying Valdez arrives. That being said, Lancaster is the best part of this western. When Valdez persists, in kindness and gentle-care, Frank to pay $100, he is is attacked and roped to a wooden cross..they send him into the desert this way to perish. It walks the line between the tone of Spaghetti westerns and American revisionist westerns while setting its own pace. The genius of Elmore Leonard is that he got it right, and then improved on it. This is an insult to Frank who is a racist pig who loathes the sight of "greaser" Valdez. a mexican sheriff versus a racist posse? It isnt the language that made me think it could be considered more pulpy than True Grit more that it seems more unabashedly thrilling, if that makes sense. Largely made. That Leonard grew up in Detroit and not Santa Fe or Laramie or Yuma is a bit disconcerting, because it seems impossible that he could write so well of those people without having been one of them his whole life. Some movies should only be seen once, some such as this one, many times. The resulting confrontation was instigated by thoroughly nasty land baron Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher), who turns out to be a very bad guy indeed. Ive suppressed the plot of Wuthering Heights and havent yet read Collins, but I did consider and reject the other two. Elmore Leonard, The Actor's and Dialogue Writer's Friend, The Unloved, Part 111: Devil in a Blue Dress, Female Filmmakers in Focus: Cauleen Smith on Drylongso, True Lies Fails to Capture the Charm of the James Cameron Original, Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part Two: Reality, Manodrome, The Adults, Inside, Golda. Just confirm how you got your ticket. All entries copyright Rohan Maitzen. Please reference Error Code 2121 when contacting customer service. He crotch filled the center of the frame. That Mr. Leonard seemed so pleased with how his style was translated to the screen is a great credit to those writers. Learn more. (director: Edwin Sherin; screenwriters: from a novel by Elmore Leonard/Roland Kibbee/David Rayfiel,; cinematographer: Gbor Pogny; editors: James T. Heckert/George Rohrs; music: Charles Gross; cast: Burt Lancaster (Bob Valdez), Susan Clark (Gay Erin), Frank Silvera (Diego), Jon Cypher (Frank Tanner), Richard Jordan (R.L. www.ultimatemovierankings.com/burt-lancaster-movies/. western, outlaw, cowboy, shootout or gunfight western, cowboy, outlaw, wild or frontier violence, action, guns, cops or killing historical, epic, battle, historic or fought racism, african american, powerful, hatred or slavery But dialog that tells one story for the actor while the actor is telling another story is the richest of gifts for a performer. Inside, she was wild as mountain scenery.". Selbst wenn er dann am Ende einen nach dem anderen umlegt, was brigens wirklich Spa macht, kauft man ihm das immer noch nicht so richtig ab. Valdez is freed by one of Tanner's henchmen (Richard Jordan) and, after convalescing, begins waging a one-man war against Tanner, picking off his men with his trusty Sharps rifle. After he survives a jaunt through the desert, the old Valdez digs into his trunk and dresses up like the sage cavalry scout that he once was and comes to collect. This western is gritty, tough, bloody, and believable. is not allowed, Heathcliff wont work. The closest I came was meeting the writers of the show, two of whom were coincidentally named (Taylor) Elmore and Leonard (Chang). It turns out Only Good Ones is in the collection of Leonards stories I do have (The Tonto Woman and other stories) thanks for the heads-up about its relationship to Valdez is Coming, as I hadnt really intended to read the whole volume. 3) Hogwarts Legacy Game Review. Tanner not only refuses, but has his hired Mexican gunslingers nail Valdez to a cross and made to walk back home across the desert. 9) Top 10 Thai BLs Copyright Fandango. Exciting formulaic revenge Western (made in Spain) as directed by Edwin Sherin (helmed The Great White Hope on Broadway) in his debut feature film that is adapted from a novel by Elmore Leonard. So he goes to Tanner to appeal to him to pony up half of the needed dough ($100) but Tanner and his men laugh at Valdez and humiliate him instead, tying him to a cross. Thinking further in the 19th century, Poes Hop-Frog and The Cask of Amontillado largely fit my idea of the revenge plot. Report this film, smh another WOKE western. 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