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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 15715
Released: March 20, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Jesse James and his gang of outlaws ride again in this "extraordinary" (LA Herald-Examiner) western that pulsates with hard-driving action and electrifying drama. Four sets of acclaimed actor brothersDavid, Keith and Robert Carradine, James and Stacy Keach, Dennis and Randy Quaid, and Christopher and Nicholas Guesteach depict real-life siblings in emotionally charged portrayals of the Old West's legendary bandits.The notorious James-Younger gang is the most famous group of outlaws in the country, robbing banks, trains and stagecoaches with a sense of daring that makes them folk heroes throughout the land. But when the mighty Pinkerton detective agency swears to track them down, these criminals must face an awesome enemy that will stop at nothing to see them behind bars...or dead! Only through the strength of their loyalty and blood ties can the outlaws hope to survive the brutal pursuits, unexpected betrayals and blistering showdowns that mark the end of their dangerous ride.
Description of The Long Riders:
This terrific Walter Hill Western follows the careers of the James and Younger brothers--and uses the nifty idea of casting actual clans of acting siblings in the roles. Thus, the James brothers are played by James and Stacy Keach; the Youngers by David, Keith, and Robert Carradine; the Millers by Randy and Dennis Quaid; and the Fords by Christopher and Nicholas Guest. Hill, working with an evocative Ry Cooder score, creates a film that is at once breathtakingly exciting and elegiac in its treatment of these post-Civil War outlaws. The Keaches in particular bring a surprising dignity to the roles of Frank and Jesse James, while David Carradine is a hoot as Cole Younger--and the Quaids mimic real life (as it was for them then) in their battles as the Miller brothers. Bloody, to be sure, but also bloody good. --Marshall Fine
The Long Riders Reviews:
The Long Riders 
2009-10-27 - Great movie, lots of action in the Old West steeing. Impressive cast and great action.
A film too slow and it's rather boring 
2009-08-14 - I ordered a DVD from Amazon.com but "The Long Riders" could have been a better film with more action and inclusion of nudity at several occassion calls for strict viewing only. My minor younger brother and sister like Western movies too and they often share the couch whenever I have new western DVD / BluRay from Amazon. But, with this film the story is different and I have to stop the film halfway because of nudity and frontal exposures which is not suitable for minors. I also feel that the film is rather "graphic" in showing close ups of someone getting shot at in cheek, chest and forehead. The film could have been better and the element of typical "Cowboyism" is missing. As for the film, I am not going to screen it again at home in future. I'd rather watch the old rusty westerns from my VHS collection. This is my personal opinion, I do not mean to harm or hurt anyone's sentiments. See it to judge it.....
The Long Riders
2009-07-07 - The Long Riders is one of the most convincing westerns that I have ever seen. I have owned this movie in VHS form for years & am glad to now have the DVD. I recomend this movie highly. This movie was way ahead of it's time for FX, etc...The Keach,Carridines,Quad&the Guest Brothers are great my hat's-off to the Walter Hill on a wonderful job directing. 5 STAR!!!
Hell, no! I'm Bob Younger. Jesse James rides with the Youngers. Now, stop the damn train! 
2009-06-14 - I came across the Long Riders while exploring Walter Hill's more cult oriented films like Hard Times, Streets of Fire and the Warriors. I've also been exploring the western as a genre and was curious to see a more modern filmmaker take a crack at one. I was intrigued by the gimmick of casting so many groups of real life brothers (the two Keach's as the James Brothers, the two Quaids as the Millers, the three Carradine's as the Younger gang, and the unlikely Guest Brothers as the Fords), and was a little afraid that it would distract my attention from the film. In fact this stunt casting worked perfectly for me as there was an immediate shorthand between the siblings that made the characters rich without having to spend much time fleshing them out. There's also a surprising lack of ego, with all actors getting pretty equal screentime.
Walter Hill borrows some of the visual panache in the Long Riders from the unglorified anti-violence of Sam Peckinpah, but the film is much more rooted in the 80s style of filmmaking. In fact, I'd say that this flick is the cinematic forefather of films like Young Guns and Tombstone, placing an importance on revisionist history, style and a flair for an extremely entertaining narrative over sticking to genre conventions or the strict facts. That isn't to say that's a bad thing, quite the contrary. As for its impact on Young Guns, it's surprising how many of little flourishes it borrows from the Long Riders. In the final bank robbery gone bad, Hill utilizes a really striking effect in the sound effects of the bullets zipping across the screen. Whenever a shot is going to connect, there's a special zooming build up to the moment when the bullet strikes that's really stylistic and memorable. Young Guns takes this wholesale in its final sequence as well.
Al in all the film plays a little slow, but my only real complaint is that the score can be very distracting at times, drowning out the dialogue and wrecking the intended tone of some of the scenes. There's also a extraneous bit of plot that finds Cole Younger traveling down to Texas to find his on again, off again prostitute lover that ends up in a very goofy knife match between David Carradine and James Remar, complete with a sash gripped between their teeth to keep them within striking distance. It's very heavy handed and doesn't do much for fleshing out Carradine's already intriguing portrayal of Cole Younger. I think anyone who is a fan of Spaghetti Westerns, the more stylistic entries into the genre of the late 80s, early 90s, or Any of Hills more cultish work will really enjoy this flick.
Robin Hood in western drag 
2009-04-15 - In the post civil war border states there was great resentment to the way farmers were being treated by the government and the railroads.
The Youngers and the James joined together to make their own kind of redistribution of wealth.
The acting, setting and costuming is good. The knife fight is very strange martial arts in a shoot them up western.
The telegraph and the Pinkerton detective agency did them in.
