I just like 'em. Ours has more of a midwestern feel to it. The Long Riders' Guild. Due to his errors, the Pinkertons back off. The Long Riders is a 1980 American Western film directed by Walter Hill. (1980). "[25], Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times said, "Since 'The Long Riders'' various writers, which include James and Stacy Keach, who also play Jesse and Frank James, and its director Walter Hill, haven't anything new to reveal, their film by default becomes merely an excuse to restage that Northfield raid in as bloody a way as possible. 315 likes. The Long Riders. We've high hopes for it but I just wish we had more time. In 1971 James and Stacy Keach played the Wright brothers in a television film called The Wright Brothers (1971). During the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, who terrorize the Midwestern United States. Here are the movies we're most excited for in 2021. What Sam was doing was making individual moments more real by extending them, kind of underlining the horrible moment of being shot. David Carradine said: Bobby and Jim came to me and said, 'Do you want to do this picture?' The Long Riders 1980. Clell Miller suggests the James-Younger Gang ride north in September 1876 to rob a bank belonging to "squareheads" in Northfield, Minnesota; word is out about them and the town has been warned by the Pinkertons. [1], The play was then adapted into a country musical, The Bandit Kings, and performed off-Broadway at the Bowery Lane Theatre. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing The Long Riders near you. The gang is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger. But then Fred Silverman became president of NBC and cancelled all mini-series ordered by his predecessors. The idea of actual brothers portraying the James', Youngers, Millers and the Fords was fabulous - but then the Keachs, Carradines and Quades are so outstanding they really took it all the way. Only David Carradine's cool, mangy macho as Cole Younger and Pamela Reed's jaundiced wit as Belle Starr cut through the tempered, elegiac surface. When the gang kills a few Pinkerton detectives, a war of sorts starts between the Pinkerton Agency and the James-Younger gang. Drama 1979 2 hr. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. We try to bring safety and knowledge to the public, while all the time keeping our extended family of riders entertained. [1], Stacy Keach wrote in his memoirs that Hill "did a great job imposing his vision on our script without undermining its essence" but says "none of us had the clout" to stop the studio from cutting several scenes involving Keach and Randy Quaid. Be there when the cart spawns. [5] Stacey Keach said the gimmick of the brothers playing brothers got the film over the line. [16], Hill shot the sequence in slow motion, a technique associated with the Westerns of Sam Peckinpah. The sound of their hoof-beats was our anthem. Film Comment; New York Vol. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 24 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 6.57/10. Long Shot. Profile: American rock band formed in 1981 in West Los Angeles, CA. HD. Ry Cooder's soundtrack for The Long Riders received a top-notch treatment from Warner Bros. (Japan), who not only did an excellent remastering job, but backed it up with English lyrics to the songs, notes, and a Japanese insert. Long Riders also boats more than its share of accurately realised set locations. Though it pales in comparison to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Long Riders is still a fine western in its' own right. 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