Bite the Bullet (1975)
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.
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Bite the Bullet (1975)
