Will Penny

The Brute in Everyman Was Also in Him - And the Love and the Violence
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DVD Details

  • Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 24, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1967
  • Label: Paramount

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User Ratings: 1,589
Rating: 3/5 -- 3.5
Movie City News
Jul 18, 2003
Rating: 5/5 -- Heston's best work...and not surprisingly his favorite role.
Kansas City Kansan
Oct 15, 2004
Rating: 4/5 -- Cowboy character study mixes violence and depth; some peril. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Sep 30, 2014
...[An] unjustly neglected cult Western....[Heston] is relaxed, almost natural, and overall quite good...
USA Today
Aug 11, 1989
But for one scene too cruel for the story to support, and one scene in which the hero is taught Christmas carols too maudlin to believe, "Will Penny" might have been the best cowboy movie in some time. Full Review
New York Times
May 9, 2005
Rating: A -- One of the most underrated Westerns ever made. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Perhaps we should make a distinction between Westerns and cowboy movies, one we can use when a film like Will Penny comes along. This isn't a Western; it's slung too close to the ground for that. But it is the best cowboy movie since Hud. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004

Product Description:

Charleton Heston, alongside an extraordinary supporting cast, gives a fine performance in this excellent example of the "loner" western. He is Will Penny, an aging cowboy, whose never-ending quest for work is interrupted by Quint (Donald Pleasance), a maniacal preacher, and his two sons. After Will kills one of Quint's sons during a scuffle, Quint vows revenge and returns to keep his word. Meanwhile, Will finds unexpected love in the form of Catherine (Joan Hackett), who is en route to California to meet her husband. Director Tom Gries's effective screenplay emphasizes the hopelessness and loneliness of the Old West over action and heroics.

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  • Sales Rank: 125,209
  • UPC: 032429286819
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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