Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301801911 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6301801911 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: January 01, 1998 Running Time: 107 minutes Sales Rank: 2190 Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rating: - It's Boone's Film All the Way
Richard Boone carries this rather uneven
Western, with superb support from a stellar
cast, although Whitman's role is disappointingly
small - THE COMANCHEROS is a better choice
for Whitman fans. Boone's is a rare blend
of tough-guy savagery and rough-edged
humanity, and contemporary Hollywood is starved for
the authentic manliness that actors like
Boone once brought to the screen. Factor in
his distinctively droll humor, and you have
that indefinable Star Power so elusive today.
Granted, the film - as noted in previous
reviews - is startlingly violent, but it
is not gratuitously so. On the contrary,
the movie trades Hollywood-style storytelling
for realism. There are no "good soldiers" or
"bad Indians" here - only flawed human beings
struggling to survive against insurmountable
odds.
Rating: - Exciting western with impressive cast
Rio Conchos is a very good western with violence that is still a bit startling when you see it today, much less in 1964. A wagon train carrying 2,000 new repeating rifles has been stolen causing the army to worry where they went. Two soldiers team up with a drunken ex-Confederate officer and a bandit to track down the missing guns. While searching, they discover a Confederate officer, Colonel Theron Pardee, who is trying to start the Civil War all over again by giving Apache warriors the new repeating rifles. The small group must try and stop him as they battle Mexican bandits, Apache warriors, and even themselves. Rio Conchos is a grim western with a very realistic tone. The violence seems out of place for the time, but it is still very effective, most notably in the torture scene towards the end. Jerry Goldsmith turns in another excellent score, sometimes reminiscent of Bandolero. For an enjoyable yet dark ... Read More
Rating: - Apocalypse Now south of the border
Rio Conchos is a very action filled outing very similar to 2 other films but good in its own right. It stars Richard Boone and Tony Franciosa as 2 renegades who team with 2 soldiers played by Stuart Whitman and Jim Brown in his debut to track down an ex-Rebel Colonel played by Edmond O'brien. He is trying to reestablish the confederacy in Mexico using stolen rifles and Apaches as his new troops. The Jerry Goldsmith score is superb and the action is constant. The film is much like Whitman's earlier effort The Comancheros with John Wayne, and has some noticeable parallels to 1979 Vietnam movie Apocalypse Now. The journey upriver, the renegade Colonel using native troops,etc. all predate Coppola's effort. After a recent viewing I speculated if screenwriter John Milius may have been influenced by this film. A definite favorite of mine and one of the most rugged westerns of the 1960's.
Rating: - One of the best Western's ever - fast paced, tight and tense
Ranks with 'True Grit' as one of my favorite Westerns. Richard Bonne at his grizzled, onery best. Tony Franciosa is also memorable as Major Lassiter's (Boone) cutthroat Mexican sidekick. This movie has it all, cavalry, apaches, banditos, confederate renegades, stolen repeating rifles - hard core all the way. Jim Brown's movie debut as the loyal, strong, silent, US Cavalry Sergeant. Quite violent and ruthless for a 1964 movie. Jerry Goldsmith's accompanying musical score is also excellent.
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