Hombre
by Martin Ritt
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Actor: Cameron Mitchell, Diane Cilento, Fredric March, Paul Newman, Richard BooneDirector: Martin Ritt
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Hombre
DVD Review: A good western
Summary: 5 Stars
A good western with an excellent cast. A very touching story of a man who, having lived on an Apache reservation for a long time, must return to live among white men again. I particularly like the way they shot the brief night scenes. I find that the lighting was done remarkably well in those occasions. And Paul Newman is excellent as always.DVD Review: Katie's comments
Summary: 5 Stars
DVD "Hombre" (Paul Newman)
I thought the movie was good, it was sad. Paul Newman played it very well. It explained what the Indians had to go through when they lived on a reservation. And how wrong the white people were to take away all their dignity. Hombre lived on the reservation when he was a child. And how hard he had to become, when he became a man. If you live or if you die, it was just a way of life for him. This a reality movie, alot of people want to close their eyes too. But I think reality is good for us to know. That we all are created equal. No one should ever rule over somebody else.So I think it was very good movie. Alot to think about.
DVD Review: Newman's Classic Western
Summary: 5 Stars
Hombre teams Newman with director Martin Ritt in one of the best Western's yet made.Ritt assembled a stellar cast,shot the film in a desolate lands of Coronado national park in California.The opening scene shows Newman,a white man raised by th Apache indians and obviously a "horsecatcher" waiting to capture a herd of wild horses.For the first time,we are introduced to a character unlike Newman has ever played,deeply troubled,intense,deadly quiet,someone lost in the anguish,of a life of abuse,starvation,and giving up only to become a white apache, dealt the realities of Indian life;death,disease,prejidice,hate...the amenities of native american life in the late 1800's,so cruel all you can do is shut the rage of a non-life,somewhere deep within, which makes you pathologically quiet,to the point of seeming a bit retarded when you are around other white folks.This is Newman's character in Hombre.
Ritt tells a little story,of betrayl,robbery,murder,stagecoaches,threats,in a country devoid of water,where the quiet makes sounds crisp an echoed,even loud.
Hombre's last scene,a shootout, plays out perfectly relative to the way the film unwinds it's tale.
Richard Boone is gives a excellant performance as a bad guy.
Diane Cilento is better than good as "Lady" a middle aged born loser one her way to who knows where.Martin Balsam is tops as a good guy,who is really a good,compassionate guy.Frederick March is great and sleezy as a banker turned theif.Paul Newman has never been better.
Ritt's direction is direct and masterly;He uses sound,and suspense as well as any director you will see,even Hitchcock.Ritt's vision of Hombre's west is a land,so stark and viscious that a man is a perishable commodity draped by a place,that's open,and lonely.
Hombre is a great Western..
DVD Review: Hombre
Summary: 3 Stars
Paul Newman is a half breed brought up by Indians in an unforgiving environment where patience, endurance and serenity count far more than bluster and bravado. Here he helps a mixed bunch of people survive through a hostile environment as they are chased and beaten by some rough characters. Though he appears to be selfish and self-centered, Hombre displays qualities that enable others to survive and not give up easily and where death is only one of many options. DVD Review: Newman & Ritt make a memorable Western
Summary: 4 Stars
Elmore Leonard wrote a few Westerns in the '50s that became successful films and this one along with "3:10 to Yuma" still stands out as one of the best of its kind. Kevin Costner has stated in interviews that this film really influenced him in the making of his revisionist Western "Dances with Wolves"--and one can see why. A suspenseful Western with a social consciousness rarely found in films of that era, "Hombre" scored with a solid cast of pros, with Newman in his best Western role ever even over "Butch Cassidy" or "The Left-Handed Gun". Though he plays a stoical character who was raised by the Indians, his John Russell finally reveals himself in the end to be a man of compassion even over his apparent hatred of the White man when he takes action to save a white woman who professed prejudice over the Indians and humiliated him in an earlier scene. A excellent story with great dialogue and a fine villainous turn by Richard Boone--how can you miss?
Description of Hombre
John Russell (Paul Newman), a white man raised by a band of Arizona Apaches, is forced to confront the society he despises when he sells the boarding house his father has left him. While leaving town by stagecoach, several bigoted passengers insist he ride outside with the driver (Martin Balsam). But when outlaws leave them all stranded in the desert, Russell may be their only hope for survival! Diane Cilento, Frederic March, Richard Boone and Barbara Rush co-star in this action-packed Western classic.Paul Newman is the blue-eyed "savage," a white man raised by the Indians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, in Elmore Leonard's take on Stagecoach. It's not exactly Grand Hotel on wheels. The hypocrites, crooks, and racists Newman travels with cast him out of their polite company in the coach, then turn to him for salvation when outlaws hold up the stage and hunt them through the desert. It's hard to "like" Newman's cold, hard survivor, but you can't help but respect his cunning and his unsentimental directness. Fredric March is sweaty with corruption as a crooked Indian agent, and Richard Boone smiles his deadly charm as a lusty bad man. While this 1966 Western wears its social politics on its dusty sleeves, director Martin Ritt tempers the revisionist moral of the tale with a stripped-down ruthlessness befitting the rugged, unforgiving landscape. --Sean Axmaker
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