The Shooting
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Actor: Michael Caine, Victoria TennantDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-30
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Madacy Records
Movie Reviews of The Shooting
Movie Review: Weird 60s Western with Jack Nicholson & Warren Oats
Summary: 4 Stars
The Shooting is an offbeat 1966 Western directed by Monte Hellman, with a screenplay by Carole Eastman (using the pseudonym "Adrien Joyce"). The story is about two men (Warren Oates and Will Hutchins) who are hired by a mysterious woman (Millie Perkins) to accompany her to a town located many miles across the desert. During their journey, they are closely tracked and later joined by a malevolent black-clad gunslinger (Jack Nicholson) who is known by the woman.
This early Nicholson vehicle is definitely worthwhile especially if you have a taste for out-of-the-ordinary films. Millie Perkins is quite fetching and Will Hutchins is a convincing youngster sidekick, while Oates is a good every-man protagonist and Nicholson just oozes ee-vil. The film is also a must for anyone who likes lost-in-the-wilderness flicks (like me).
I was almost going to give the film 3 Stars because of the nonsensical ending. What's wrong with the ending? [SPOILER ALERT!! Don't read anymore unless you've seen the film]. As the story progresses it becomes clear that the woman is hunting Oates' brother who apparently killed a child or a midget, likely the woman's child. When they finally catch up to him at the very end we discover that the supposed murderer is Oates' TWIN brother who looks exactly like him. Since this is so, why didn't the woman assume Oates (Willett Gashade) was the person who killed her child since he looks exactly like the one who did (Coin Gashade)?
If anyone can shed some light on this mystery I'd appreciate it. I suspect that there is no answer, which makes the film pointless. Why go through all the expense and trouble of making a film that doesn't make sense?
Regardless, "The Shooting" is a worthwhile independent 60s Western with occasional flashes of brilliance. Some have called it the first "acid Western" but I wouldn't go that far. It has some weird touches, but not too weird.
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