The Appaloosa

    The Appaloosa
    1966

    Synopsis

    A man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.

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    Cast

    • Marlon BrandoMatt
    • Anjanette ComerTrini
    • John SaxonChuy
    • Emilio FernándezLazaro
    • Alex MontoyaSquint Eye
    • Miriam ColonAna
    • Rafael CamposPaco
    • Frank SilveraRamos
    • Larry D. MannPriest

    Recommendations

    • 60

      The New York Times

      Essentially a film of mordant feeling in which violence is always just below the surface of pokerfaced bluffing and fake Old-World Spanish courtesy.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      Director Furie's stylistic method of dwelling on certain scenes, a penchant for close-ups so large and exasperating as to blot out the screen and confuse the vision, worked effectively in his Ipcress File, but here his shots of teeth, guns, horses' eyes, Brando's jowls, and Comer's brow are merely specious, distracting, and as amateurish as a TV director shooting into the sun for reflection or allowing water on the camera lens to remind the viewer that technicians are present.
    • 50

      Time Out

      The film has its moments, but is rendered virtually unwatchable by Furie's mania for weirdly mannered camera angles (you spend half the time peering round, over or under obstacles behind which the action is strategically placed) and enormous, pointless close-ups.
    • 40

      The New Yorker

      A dog of a movie about a horse.

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