The Virginian

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Summary: 2 Stars

Movie Review: Love this movie.
Summary: 5 Stars

Movie Review: the virginian
Summary: 5 Stars

Movie Review: "Smile when you say that, pardner!"
Summary: 5 Stars

Cast:

Pullman The Virginian
Diane Lane Molly Stark
Dennis Weaver rival rancher
James Drury The Judge
Others: unidentified

A schoolteacher, Molly Stark, comes West to Wyoming and meets the Virginian who falls for her. He is made foreman of the Judge's ranch, but the ranch is competing with Dennis Weaver's (of Gunsmoke fame) ranch. There is also a rivalry between the Virginian and Trampas ("Smile when you call me that, pardner!"), who quits when he becomes foreman rather than take orders from him. The Virginian is forced to hang one of his saddle mates when he turns outlaw.

This story has all of the elements of a good Western, pathos, struggle, rustling, violence of which Molly disaproves, and causes tension between them very similar to that in High Noon, made later.

This is the story that started them all, and became the pattern for the genre and was the granddaddy of all of the nonsense "Wild West" mythology, including the ridiculous fast draw contests in the middle of the street, the fancy cowboy outfits, and the idea that murderers adhered to chivalric rules of combat instead of the backshooting, drygulching and murders that actually took place, just as in the Bowery, but in smaller numbers in the West.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books

Movie Review: Surprisingly touching story with gorgeous music
Summary: 4 Stars

Yes, the story is a tad rushed, but the acting is superb. For a first time director, Pullman, certainly drew touchingly realistic portrayals from the fine cast. It is interesting to note how Pullman has "modernized" The Virginian by making him not such the perfect "natural man", ala Fennimore Cooper. He is rather a man filled with a sense of anxiety and doubt, but who also has a strong sense of his own worth and duty to the people around him.

Summary of The Virginian

Cowboys & Indians Video

• Genres > Westerns
• Westerns - General