Bite the Bullet (1975)
A Film by Richard Brooks
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | MPEG 2 | 4:3 | 2h 11min | 720x480 | 29.97 fps | AC3 2ch 192Kbps
Lang: English | Subs: English, French, Spanish, Portugues, Korean, Chinese, Thai | Cover | 4.23 GB
Genre: Action | Adventure | Western
IMDB
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn
Storyline: At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
A Film by Richard Brooks
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | MPEG 2 | 4:3 | 2h 11min | 720x480 | 29.97 fps | AC3 2ch 192Kbps
Lang: English | Subs: English, French, Spanish, Portugues, Korean, Chinese, Thai | Cover | 4.23 GB
Genre: Action | Adventure | Western
IMDB
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn
Storyline: At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
ccthemovieman-1 at IMDB wrote:Screenshots:A good cast, some nice photography and an interesting story about a 700-mile horse race make "Bite The Bullet" kind of underrated western. You don't hear it mentioned much in "Favorite Westerns" lists.
The only drawbacks for me were a little too much language and that grundgy-70s feel to it that movies in that decade had to them, even in westerns. Having grown up with "Shane," and a bunch of westerns on TV, I still wasn't quite used to what I heard here when this came out 30 years ago. Nowadays, this is mild stuff.
This is a fairly long film at 131 minutes but it moves fast. Gene Hackman plays the tough-but-humane hero. The rest of the contestants in this race are all interesting, too. Each is given a little profile of themselves and include Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson and Ian Bannen.
In addition, there are some memorable scenes such as a horse literally dropping dead; a man poisoned, a woman with a "different agenda" an old man hanging on and a bad-turned-good kid. It's a nice mixture.