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| United Artists | Release Date: October 25, 1978 |
Starring:
Basil Hoffman, George Grizzard, James Caan, James Kline, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Jim Davis, Macon McCalman, Mark Harmon, Richard Farnsworth
Summary:
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage, they eventually find love.
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Handsome but overly studied. [09 Mar 1986, p.5]
So self-conscious about its themes that nothing in the storytelling occurs naturally.
[Pakula] has made the dreary mistake of reducing a half-dead genre to its basic elements, stripping away color, detail, humor--everything that makes it possible to regard a Western as a pleasure rather than an ordeal. [13 Nov 1978, p.128]
Each new attempt to revive the Western seems to plunge the patient into a deeper coma. Arriving on the heels of Jack Nicholson's Goin' South, Alan J. Pakula's cataleptic Comes a Horseman suggests a conspiracy to kick the poor old Western while it's down. [25 Oct 1978, p.D13]
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