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Silverado on DVD (1985)

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Average rating: 67%
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3.5
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Starring: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Linda Hunt, Brian Dennehy, John Cleese, Kevin Costner, Rosanna Arquette, Danny Glover, Jeff Goldblum
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Studio: SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 127 mins
Certificate: PG
Collections: 100 Wild Westerns
Genres: Action/Adventure
Languages: English
Dubbed: French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released: 13/09/1999

Brief synopsis of 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.

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Rating of 4 stars out of 5 Radio Times

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.

Rating of 1 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Interesting but not wholly successful attempt to revive in one movie various Western myths and legends; a little more conscious humour might have helped.

Variety

"...Entertaining....There is much to applaud in Lawrence Kasdan's elaborate production....Rarely has the West appeared so alive..."

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Rated - 4 starsTOP MOVIE !!!

A customer from GLASGOW , 04/03/2006

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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Rated - 4 starsI apologise to the last reviewer

Raymond Walker from LOchwinnoch, Scotland , 27/08/2005

Are you joking? This is great fun, yes you must suspend belief; but when did you not have to in a western?

I loved the odd casting, apart from glenn; all against type.

Ah its a goodie watch it, dont pay attention to details its the real western just enjoy it as a good romp and then youll love it.

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Rated - 5 starsSilverado ...why dont you come to your senses

eric roberts from falkirk , 15/10/2004

Made by Lawrence Kasdan the man who wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark and like that film great fun.

Smart dialogue, real laughs and everyone on top form.

Never mind your gritty, realistic, colourless western nonsense of series like Deadwood this is just old fashioned good night in at the pictures.

If you like the cowboy films then fill your boots with this pards.

Yee Hah

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Rated - 5 starsone of the truly great westerns of modern film

A customer from London UK , 06/05/2005

this film has such great foreshadowing, fab script, great actors and acting - a legend in its own time

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Rated - 4 starsI apologise to the last reviewer

Raymond Walker from LOchwinnoch, Scotland , 27/08/2005

Are you joking? This is great fun, yes you must suspend belief; but when did you not have to in a western?

I loved the odd casting, apart from glenn; all against type.

Ah its a goodie watch it, dont pay attention to details its the real western just enjoy it as a good romp and then youll love it.

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Rated - 3 starsAn old fashioned western

neworder from Shropshire , 25/01/2005

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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