Nevada Smith
by Henry Hathaway
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Actor: Arthur Kennedy, Brian Keith, Karl Malden, Steve McQueen, Suzanne PleshetteDirector: Henry Hathaway
Brand: Nevada
Producer: Steve McQueen
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Producer: Henry Hathaway
Editor: Frank Bracht
Producer: Joseph E. Levine
Writer: Harold Robbins
Writer: John Michael Hayes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-22
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Nevada Smith
Movie Review: A moral underpinning of forgiveness, retribution, and love
Summary: 5 Stars
A young half-breed, witness the after math of the death of his father and Comache mother. The Killer association of three soldiers was probably formed in the Mexican-American war. They arrival on scene was to collect of their 1/2 of the gold. The three soldier villains are play by Karl Malden, Martin Landau, and Arthur Kennedy. The father has a gold mine but hasn't struck gold. The father claims he does have any gold and the consequence is the brutal, gromesome murder to his head and his wifes aweful initial skinning which is surprisingly graphic. A statement is being made about the atrocities and treatment of the native American indians. Brian Keith is exceptional in his role as McQueen's mentor. His mentor tells him to go home because he doesn't have the resources necessary to fight such as food, money, and skill; telling him learning to shoot is only half the battle for he must learn to think like them, steal like them, sleep in brothels, eat garage from the trash, and kill. Sadly, Keith doesn't want Max Sand to become like the men he seeks to kill; but Max is determined and Keith decides to train Max to shoot; and with the last bit of advice being never back down from a challenge and choose when and where to fight. Good advice. Max uses the advice to kill the third killer.Max can not read. Max gets a book on reading and learns to read and while reading a local newspaper learns the name of the second killer caught for bank robbery.
Max kills the first man in a knife fight after following clues such as a gray horse, a facial scar recollection. Max discovers the whereabouts of the first through a comache call girl after he gives her fives dollars for information. Max manages to kill the knife fighter but is badly cut up himself. Max is stitched up and the sheriff does want Max in town and forced to leave. Max recovers back to health in the girls tribe. The chief tells Max, the girl was a disgrace to their tribe but her return has some redemptive qualities and he should recover in the tribe and possibly between him and the girl, help each other to heal. She tells max it was her hatred that caused her to become a prostitute. She falls in love with Max.
Max recovers and leaves in search of the second man. He uses the mans name to lure him out telling people he is his brother and has a message to deliver. Some of the his men realize Max is not Flint and try to force the truth by dragging him by rope behind a horse. A priest intervenes and nurse him back to health. At departure the priest tells about his own family, immigrates meet death while crossing the wilderness and were scalped with him being the only member of his family to survived. The priest tells Max to forgive and trust in the Bible and God. Max tells the priest that God must have forgot him and departs.
Discovering the second man is in prison for bank robbery, Max stages a bank robbery and is thrown into prison somewhere in the everglads where the rule is hard labor and not to make the warden angry. Max discovers the second killer, who apparently attempted to escape, but was caught and whipped. Max forms an false friendship with the second killer and plots an escape using a local girl named Piera who will provide a canoe and help navigate out of the swampy prison. Prior to escape she is bitten by a Water Mocassin weaking her. Just prior to her death she sees Max kill the second killer and wants nothing to do with him. She sees him as the same type of man as the second killer and does want to see his face before she dies.
Max escapes and discovers the third killers name prior to killing the second man, joins up with him by using his name, and is part of a gold robbery. Max has an opportunity to kill the third man but decides not to kill them just shoot him up good, once in the hand and two shoots, one to the left knee and one to right knee.
Some of the most beautiful desert scenery it brought to the big film. My only criticism of the movie is that Max is constantly being referred to as "youngster" or "half breed". Steve McQueen does not look young nor half indian. The director uses moccassins to bridge the cultural gap and naitivity to make him seem young.
Summary of Nevada Smith
When a young man finds his Indian mother and white father murdered, he sets out to get revenge.Genre: Westerns
Rating: NR
Release Date: 2-MAY-2006
Media Type: DVD
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