Biography: Slim Pickens |
Though he spoke most of his movie dialogue in a slow Western drawl, actor Slim Pickens was a pure-bred California boy. An expert rider from the age of four, Pickens was performing in rodeos at 12. Three years later, he quit school to become a... more
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Cast: Steve McQueen Richard Farnsworth
Tags: Western Revisionist Western Biopic
Length: 98min
Steve McQueen's penultimate film deals with a fascinating western legend, founded on an insightful script by Thomas McGuane and Bud Shrake. Unfortunately, the film was done in by the five directors --Don Siegel, Elliot Silverstein, James Guercio,...
Cast: Amy Irving Dyan Cannon
Tags: Drama Showbiz Drama
Length: 120min
After displaying his easygoing charm in a number of television appearances and a showy supporting role in The Electric Horseman, Willie Nelson scored his first leading role in this omantic comedy-drama in which he (appropriately enough) plays a...
The Sweet Creek County War (1978)
Tags: Western
Length: 99min
In this western, a sheriff gets tired of upholding the law and retires to a quiet ranch. Unfortunately, he ends up saving his homesteader neighbors from a corrupt Wyoming land grabber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Tags: Animal Picture Family Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 126min
Joe Camp, the writer and director of Benji, tried his hand with another breed of animal in this comedy. A U.S. Cavalry unit in Texas is having a hard time dealing with horses who aren't acclimated to the hot, dry weather, so it becomes the subject of...
Cast: Jackie Gleason Terence Hill William Redfield Jonathan Kaplan
Tags: Road Movie Adventure Comedy
Length: 91min
An Italian mechanic (Terence Hill) finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected...
Length: 98min
Set in the rugged but beautiful Alaskan wilds, this fact-based outdoor adventure chronicles the struggles of a family to survive and for a young boy to overcome a physical disability to win a dog-sled race. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: John Wayne John Williams Bruce Dern Roscoe Lee Browne
Tags: Modern Western Western
Length: 128min
In one of John Wayne's more interesting late Westerns, "The Duke" plays Will Anderson, a crusty veteran cattleman preparing a 400-mile drive to get a herd of steers to market. Shortly before the trip is scheduled to begin, Will's crew quits when they...
Cast: Sissy Spacek
Tags: Road Movie Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance Odd Couple Film
Length: 90min
Veteran art director Gordon Wiles occasionally wielded the directorial megaphone in both films and television with mixed results. Ginger in the Morning is an aggressively "small" picture, its success or failure totally reliant on the rapport between...
Tags: Action
Length: 89min
In this action film, trucker Carrol Jo Hummer (Jan-Michael Vincent) borrows money to purchase a truck of his own, only to discover that part of his "payment plan" includes smuggling goods on his trips. When Carrol refuses to participate in the...
Cast: Gene Wilder Harvey Korman Madeline Kahn Richard Pryor Mel Brooks Cleavon Little Slim Pickens
Tags: Western Odd Couple Film Comedy Western Parody/Spoof Comedy
Length: 105min
Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching...
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