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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett & Donald Pleasence | |
Performer: | Lee Majors, Bruce Dern, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Clifton James, Anthony Zerbe, Roy Jenson, Quentin Dean, Lydia Clarke & G.D. Spradlin | |
Directed by | Tom Gries | |
Edited by | Warren Low | |
Screenwriting by | Tom Gries | |
Composition by | David Raksin | |
Art Direction by | Roland Anderson & Hal Pereira | |
Produced by | Fred Engel & Walter Seltzer | |
Director of Photography: | Lucien Ballard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Charlton Heston's solid turn in a more life-sized role is the centerpiece of this darkly haunting western.
Kansas City Star
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.
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New York Times
Rating: A --
One of the most underrated Westerns ever made.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...[An] unjustly neglected cult Western....[Heston] is relaxed, almost natural, and overall quite good...
USA Today
Rating: 5/5 --
Heston's best work...and not surprisingly his favorite role.
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 4/5 --
Cowboy character study mixes violence and depth; some peril.
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Common Sense Media
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 123,366
- UPC: 032429286819
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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