Westerns Episode 19, The Long Riders (1980)
In this final episode in the series, Dr. Fleming looks at Walter Hill's 1980 film The Long Riders, which offers a look-in at the James-Younger gang and their exploits in Missouri and elsewhere.
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This was a great series. I intend to go back and watch several of these. Thank you.
Thank you for the historical and moral perspective on a film that I have long liked, with reservations.
Great series. Only sorry you didn’t include Michael Cimino’s epochal classic of the Johnson County War, “Heaven’s Gate.” A masterpiece.
Probably don’t want to do anything too obvious the next time, like Noir, Detective Films, Mantan Moreland, etc. Maybe do the French New Wave. Or Fellini. Or do the Decade of the 70s: Overrated or Classic. Chinatown, Badlands, Godfathers, Apocalypse Now!, Annie Hall, Manhattan, French Connection, Etc. I for one am ready for it.
I don’t know if we are going to do another series on films. If we do, it would have to be devoted to films I like and have thought about. My interest starts to fade dramatically in the 1970. Watching Sicario and one or two others was downright painful and stultifying. I find the Three Stooges and Warner Brothers cartoons vastly more stimulating and creative than Wind River and Last of the Mohiccans. Film Noir or at least detective/crime movies could be interesting. Much of the genre, both in fiction, I find seriously deficient. So many of these novels lack a moral center, and those based on good fiction fail utterly to preserve what is good. Then, of course, you come across White Heat and Out of the Past and see that the genre has possibilities.