Bite the Bullet PG
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 11 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 2, 2002
- Originally Released: 1975
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gene Hackman | |
Performer: | Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent & Paul Stewart | |
Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
Edited by | George Granville | |
Written by | Richard Brooks | |
Composition by | Alex North | |
Produced by | Richard Brooks | |
Director of Photography: | Harry Stradling, Jr. |
Entertainment Reviews:
Offers a fresh twist on winning out and gives us pause to think about our way of being in the world
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 4/5 --
Unusual, big budget western concerning horse race to deathly finish.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
The result is that the film's message about sportsmanship decency becomes thoroughly anodyne. Entertaining nevertheless.
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Film4
Rating: 88/100 --
Bite the Bullet may be many things, but boring it's not.
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Apollo Guide
Rating: 2/5 --
In spite of all the care, the money and the hardships that apparently went into its production, the movie looks prefabricated, like something assembled from other people's earlier, better inspirations.
New York Times
Like a folk tale, this movie is a story well told, worth hearing again.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A finely crafted, epic Western about a cross-country horseback endurance race.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Filmed in the classic Western tradition, this tale of a 700-mile horse race in the early 1900s takes its stalwart competitors over some rough western terrain and through various inclement conditions. The wide variety of contestants has differing reasons for entering the grueling race, but each and every one of them has their eyes on the prize: $2,000. The rivals include an honorable Rough Rider (Gene Hackman), a plucky young woman (Candice Bergen), a drifting ex-cowboy (James Coburn), a reckless young bad boy (Jan-Michael Vincent), a wealthy British sportsman (Ian Bannen), and a Pony Express rider (Ben Johnson). As the disparate band of competitors sets out on the harsh and grueling desert ride, each person is forced to respect one another and work together as they endure a wide variety of dangerous conditions. This episodic tale features gorgeous cinematography of miles of barren and lone wasteland shot in contrast to the live-wire pageantry of the race, teeming with gritty scenes of the rough wild West full of hucksters, hustlers, and bawdy barmaids whooping it up until dawn.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 120,892
- UPC: 043396077614
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item