Seven Men From Now (Special Collector's Edition)

Seven Men From Now (Special Collector's Edition)
by Budd Boetticher

Seven Men From Now (Special Collector's Edition)
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Actor: Gail Russell, John Larch, Lee Marvin, Randolph Scott, Walter Reed
Director: Budd Boetticher
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of Seven Men From Now (Special Collector's Edition)

Movie Review: Boetticher was good, but only with Kennedy as sidekick
Summary: 5 Stars

A lot of nonsense is now written about Boetticher: 'equal of Ford', 'great American auteur' and so on. Boetticher made four great westerns, and this is one of them. They were all written by Burt Kennedy. When he didn't work with Kennedy, Boetticher was a very ordinary director indeed. A hack rather than an auteur in fact. Don't let the film studies pseuds, and Jim Kitses is the main culprit, fool you about this. Film is a collaborative medium in essence. And when Boetticher collaborated with Kennedy he was very good indeed. Boetticher was clearly a nice guy who led an interesting life. But he ain't no Ford.

Summary of Seven Men From Now (Special Collector's Edition)

A former sheriff tracks seven men through the desert in an effort to avenge his wifes murder. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/20/2005 Starring: Randolph Scott Lee Marvin Run time: 78 minutes Rating: Nr
Not many Westerns can claim to be original. Seven Men from Now can. Its making, for the B-picture arm of John Wayne's Batjac company, was a modest enterprise. The screenwriter, Burt Kennedy, was just starting out; the director, Budd Boetticher, was a matador-turned-filmmaker with only one film of distinction (The Bullfighter and the Lady) in a journeyman career; the star, Randolph Scott, was regarded as "over the hill." Yet the three men's talents blended uncannily, producing not just a terrific Western but a cinema masterpiece--an ironical, beautifully spare bit of storytelling that became the ideal showcase for Scott's sandy reticence.

You don't want anybody synopsizing the story for you; there's little of it, really, yet how it's told makes it complex and compelling. We know, from a memorable first scene, that Scott is hunting down seven men who did something terrible. He will be thrown together with several other characters, including Lee Marvin as an affable but deadly rascal with whom he shares some history. Everybody has private reasons to be traveling through Apache country. Savor every syllable of the laconic dialogue, what people say and what they don't quite say--what they think they understand about one another's motives, except that that understanding keeps getting rearranged.

Seven Men from Now went missing after Wayne's death in 1979 threw the Batjac library into limbo. (Its success had inspired Scott, Boetticher, and Kennedy to collaborate on three other remarkable Westerns--The Tall T (1957), Ride Lonesome (1959), and Comanche Station (1960)--which, because they weren't made for Batjac, we've had little trouble seeing over the years.) The movie became legendary, a Holy Grail for film buffs. Now, with a beautiful restoration on DVD, it gets to be a movie again. A great one. --Richard T. Jameson

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