- Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence
- Directors: John Sturges
- Format: PAL, Colour, Full Screen, HiFi Sound
- Language English
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Classification: U
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- VHS Release Date: 10 Jun 1996
- Run Time: 150 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CJ6J
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 18,538 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Lancaster is superb as Colonel Gerhard and shows how diverse he is with his acting and the supporting cast is just as strong in what I rate as a first rate comedy which has the perfect mix of humour, story and characterisation.
From the director of Magnificent Seven and with music from Bernstein this movie's got a production team and cast to boast about, and it doesnt waste them. The script is fast paced with great gags that steer away from being cliche, and you as the viewer are never detached from the story or the characters, which really is the hallmark of a great comedy.
I'm 18 years old and love comedy, especially british sitcoms, but there are few big screen flicks that I find to be as 'laught-out-loud' and polished as this.
A hilarious comedy and I guarantee you'll watch it more than once!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A brilliantly funny film - I laughed all the way through when I first saw it in 1965, and I still find it hysterically funny.
Great performances by Brian Keith, Burt Lancaster and the rest, with the absolute star performance from Donald Pleasance. Usually he played the psychotic villain - this time he was the dedicated whisky drinker, also known as Oracle, when a glass of whisky had him shouting 'now I see it'. A punch line ending too!
Great performances by Brian Keith, Burt Lancaster and the rest, with the absolute star performance from Donald Pleasance. Usually he played the psychotic villain - this time he was the dedicated whisky drinker, also known as Oracle, when a glass of whisky had him shouting 'now I see it'. A punch line ending too!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
John Sturges made some pretty decent films in his time. I loved his "Bad Day at Black Rock" and even liked "The Magnificent Seven" his inferior remake of Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai". Quite how he came to make this dull as dishwater offering is a complete mystery to me. Given all the talent that was at the films disposal it still amounts to a big fat nothing. The story, such as it is, involves a shipment of whisky bound for Denver, which is starting to run dry of the hard stuff. This stale premise for a joke also runs dry very rapidly. For a film billed as a comedy western it is about as funny as having a tooth pulled. After 149 minutes of mind numbingly boring action there is a sore temptation to slit ones throat. Ever the optimist I did manage to find one high point which was Elmer Bernstein's typically exuberant and jaunty score. Quite decent singalonga stuff! The rest is utter garbage I am afraid!
Poor old Burt Lancaster really caught a cold with this one. Not quite up there with with his role in Visconti's "The Leopard". That fine actor Martin Landau, remember him as Bela Lugosi in that very funny film "Ed Wood", is embarrisingly misused as an Indian who says next to nothing. The acting is of the slapstick variety, where a bit of eyeball rolling incredulity passes as acting. Compared to comedy westerns like "Cat Ballou" and "Support your Local Sheriff" this one pales into insignificance. That fine actress Lee Remick is also strangely wasted as an attractive champion of the temperance movement. Seasoned support actors Dub Taylor and Robert J Wilke also flush their considerable talents down the pan! British actor Donald Pleasance is cast as a very weird oracle and that excellent actor Brian Keith plays the sort of panto villain who used to get a pie in the face in silent films. This film is probably more sleep inducing than Andy Warhol's 5 hour 20 minute epic "Sleep". This deadly dull pretentiously unfunny film is a truly epic yawn of biblical proportions. Don't waste your time! I know this film will be someones cherished favourite, but I have to be honest to myself. One star for Bernstein's score!
Poor old Burt Lancaster really caught a cold with this one. Not quite up there with with his role in Visconti's "The Leopard". That fine actor Martin Landau, remember him as Bela Lugosi in that very funny film "Ed Wood", is embarrisingly misused as an Indian who says next to nothing. The acting is of the slapstick variety, where a bit of eyeball rolling incredulity passes as acting. Compared to comedy westerns like "Cat Ballou" and "Support your Local Sheriff" this one pales into insignificance. That fine actress Lee Remick is also strangely wasted as an attractive champion of the temperance movement. Seasoned support actors Dub Taylor and Robert J Wilke also flush their considerable talents down the pan! British actor Donald Pleasance is cast as a very weird oracle and that excellent actor Brian Keith plays the sort of panto villain who used to get a pie in the face in silent films. This film is probably more sleep inducing than Andy Warhol's 5 hour 20 minute epic "Sleep". This deadly dull pretentiously unfunny film is a truly epic yawn of biblical proportions. Don't waste your time! I know this film will be someones cherished favourite, but I have to be honest to myself. One star for Bernstein's score!
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Published 21 months ago by D. H. G. Kington
average lighthearted western.
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