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Silverado
1985
As the result of a chance meeting, four cowboys on horseback are drawn together to defeat a corrupt frontier sheriff and his vicious posse. An enjoyable high-spirited western. Starring Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Brain Dennehy and Rosanna Arquette, and written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan (THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST). Academy .. Read more
| Starring | Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Linda Hunt, Brian Dennehy |
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| Director | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Silverado
As the result of a chance meeting, four cowboys on horseback are drawn together to defeat a corrupt frontier sheriff and his vicious posse. An enjoyable high-spirited western. Starring Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Brain Dennehy and Rosanna Arquette, and written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan (THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST). Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound, Best Original Score.
| Starring | Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Linda Hunt, Brian Dennehy, John Cleese, Kevin Costner, Rosanna Arquette, Danny Glover, Jeff Goldblum |
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| Director | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 7 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 12 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Wild Westerns |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish Blu-ray: Dutch, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, French, German, English, Danish, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 13 Sep 1999 Blu-ray: 14 Sep 2009 Production year: 1985 |
| Format | DVD |
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Billed as the movie that was going to revive the ailing western, this film merely performed a little resuscitation before Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven proved there was life in the old genre yet. Just as Steven Spielberg plundered the Saturday serial for his Raiders trilogy, so Lawrence Kasdan rustled ideas from virtually every B-western ever made. While this makes for an invigorating adventure, it's also rather untidy. Nevertheless, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover and Scott Glenn make attractive heroes, Brian Dennehy is a hissable villain and John Cleese enjoys his cameo as an English lawman. Pity the thundering hooves didn't drown out Bruce Broughton's lousy score.
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Interesting but not wholly successful attempt to revive in one movie various Western myths and legends; a little more conscious humour might have helped.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
TOP MOVIE !!!
Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the town of Silverado, held in thrall by crooked sheriff Brian Dennehy and his behemoth 'deputies.' The four disparate heroes--Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn and Danny Glover--prepare to do battle against Dennehy for personal reasons ranging from mercenary to altruistic. Sidelines characters include duplicitous, dandified gambler Jeff Goldblum, frontier widow Rosanna Arquette and gimlet-eyed saloon owner Linda Hunt. The film is stolen hands-down by Kevin Costner, playing an irresponsible young gunslinger who never speaks when hootin' and hollerin' will do. A classic, High Noon-style showdown caps this rousing retro western.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
An old fashioned western
A good old fashioned western here, where all the good guys come through unscathed in the end, despite some of them suffering horrendous injuries in the course of the film, and all the bad guys (who seem to multiply as the film goes on) get their just desserts.
John Cleese puts in a cameo as Basil Fawlty wearing a sheriff's badge, and there are good performances from the heroic gang of four, of whom Kevin Kline stands out. One of the last of a wonderful genre. -
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High Noon for westerns
- 19 Mar 2004
"High Noon" has been voted the greatest western of all time in a new poll. The 1952 classic film, in which a sheriff is forced to face a deadly enemy but finds that his own town refuses to help him, was voted top of a poll including classic films starring Clint Eastwood and John Wayne. Gary Cooper's portrayal of lawman Will Kane won him an Oscar. Clint Eastwood got five of his films into the top 20, including Sergio Leone's classic "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" writes... Read more
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Silverado
As the result of a chance meeting, four cowboys on horseback are drawn together to defeat a corrupt frontier sheriff and his vicious posse. An enjoyable high-spirited western. Starring Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Brain Dennehy and Rosanna Arquette, and written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan (THE ...
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