The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid PG
The West the way it really was!
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 25, 2007
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cliff Robertson & Robert Duvall | |
Performer: | Elisha Cook, Jr., R.G. Armstrong & Luke Askew | |
Directed by | Philip Kaufman | |
Edited by | Douglas Stewart | |
Screenwriting by | Philip Kaufman | |
Composition by | Dave Grusin | |
Art Direction by | George C. Webb | |
Produced by | Jennings Lang | |
Director of Photography: | Bruce Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
Interesting for its demonstration of how exploitative capitalism leads simple-minded farmers' boys into outlawry, though somewhat marred by Duvall's manic interpretation of the role of Jesse James.
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Time Out
...A remarkable depth....The film always looks good...
Sight and Sound
It fits into the cynical, blood-soaked western wave ushered in by Sam Peckinpah, but, if anything, it’s even less romantic about cowboy myths.
Uncut
A Preston Sturgesian portrait of myth
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CinePassion
Kaufman's own script never gels and the whole exercise, admirable as it is and enlivened by quirky decidedly unwestern like humour, fails to make much dramatic impact.
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Film4
Rating: 4/5 --
A lovely, odd sort of middle Western. That is, it's neither conventional Western fiction nor completely documented fact, although it makes full use of history and is as crammed with the artifacts of 19th-century America.
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New York Times
[The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid] may be a valiant attempt but fails to come off.
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Variety
Product Description:
Based on the true story of the last failed bank robbery by the James and Younger brothers, this film is notable for showing the unraveling heist from the outlaws' viewpoint. THE GREAT NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAID was shot in a meticulous semidocumentary style that brings to life the glorious last ride of the infamous band of outlaws, featuring outstanding lead performances from Robert Duvall and Cliff Robertson. Late in the summer of 1876, Jesse James (Duvall) and Cole Younger (Robertson) were given amnesty by their home state of Missouri; after a long and prosperous career as robbers, the dynamic duo were, ironically, proclaimed state heroes. Faced with the possibility of a quiet and peaceful future, the notorious ruffians had no choice but to plan one final heist at the biggest bank west of the Mississippi, in Northfield, Minnesota. The heist was a grand scheme planned with great intellectual prowess by Younger, the introverted and soft-spoken leader of the group, who was often overshadowed by the flashy and daredevil killer, Jesse James. Together the two men executed what they thought would be a foolproof plan--until the citizens of Northfield proved them wrong.