Valdez is Coming
by Edwin Sherin
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan, Susan ClarkDirector: Edwin Sherin
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Valdez is Coming
Movie Review: " ... AND WE HAVE LOST 5 MORE MEN ..."
Summary: 5 Stars
"He can shoot ... and he knows when to move" (the segundo)
Seeing this movie for the first time on the old TNT Western Theatre back in the early 1990s, don't know why I waited this long to enter a review. Also, I know nothing of altered or cut scenes from this movie, the Sharps rifle shoot has always been in whatever version I have viewed.
Former frontier sheriff, Roberto Valdez is an object of laughter and a person to be ignored, when he only seeks justice and money for the injured innocent. So when Bob Valdez, ex-Army Apache hunter--before he knew better--comes back, "they were still laughing ..., and then they began to die.
Based on the 1970 Elmore Leonard book of the same title, this film has to be one of the best, top five films, one can count with the fingers of one hand. No matter how many times it is viewed, the film continues to draw the viewer into its resonating story.
"I should have killed you three days ago."
"or gone to Nogales."
"or paid the $100 dollars."
Few western stories match, let alone surpass, this classic film.
Semper Fi.
Summary of Valdez is Coming
Oscar? winner* Burt Lancaster (Birdman of Alcatraz From Here to Eternity) gives a powerhouse performance as an aging Mexican-American lawman who erupts into a one-man army in this bold saga of retribution and redemption. Valdez Is Coming boldly recreates America's Western frontier a place where life was sometimes cheap...but honor was always priceless.When it comes to keeping the peace former frontier sheriff Bob Valdez has always been the voice of reason in a sea of chaos. But Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher) is a very different sort of man: greedy impulsive and rotten to the core. So when Tanner provokes a shootout that results in the death of an innocent man Valdez orders him to provide financial support for the widow. But when Tanner not only refuses but also laughs in his face Valdez dusts off his old uniform straps on his guns and vows to exact justice and vengeance at any cost.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?WESTERN/MISC. Rating:?NR UPC:?027616865830 Manufacturer No:?1002372There's nothing like the laconic, confident ease of Burt Lancaster in his gray years, even in the unlikely role of an easy-going Mexican. Bob Valdez is a deputy sheriff in an American frontier town bubbling over in racism. Scapegoated by the community for the death of an innocent victim of a trigger- happy posse and crucified, literally, by the sadistic gunrunner (Jon Cypher) responsible for the tragedy, the quiet lawman takes up arms in a bloody campaign that begins with the mantra: "Tell him Valdez is coming."
Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, the script is hardly subtle or original and it never makes the gaping chasm between the search for justice and the bloody reign of terror work in any dramatic terms. It's a rather amorphous morality tale without a solid grounding, but it's dutifully violent, charged with righteous anger, and makes good use of the stark landscape (it was shot in Spain, giving it even more of the flavor of a spaghetti Western). It's a bit embarrassing how Hollywood puts the spotlight on racism by casting a white actor to play the wronged minority, but Lancaster creates a wonderful character in Valdez. With gentle eyes and a tired smile behind a face covered in brown Hollywood makeup, he brings sure-footed authority and calm ruthlessness to a mission of justice by a man wronged one too many times. --Sean Axmaker
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