The Long Riders

Walter Hill

This is the one that used several sets of real-life brothers (Carradines, Keach, Quaid) as principal characters...from 1980. The bros gimmick actually worked quite well and let there be no doubt that Hill knew how to stage, shoot and edit a western for maximum impact.

It's a terrific film...only overshadowed in the final section by Andrew Dominick's brilliant Assasination of Jesse James... The sequence of the Northfield Minnesota raid is a master class in action filmmaking.

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