Will Penny
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Movie Reviews of Will Penny
Movie Review: "That's enough Shorthorn"
Summary: 5 Stars
Charlton Heston always seemed to bring a presence to a movie that made it dramatic and "Will Penny" is no exception. He is supported by many fine actors, many who gained fame in later years, actors like Lee Majors, Anthony Zerbe, Bruce Dern, etc. A man with no family who has lived a rugged life but in spite of it all still has a kind heart. The show begins on the last day of a cattle drive. After they're all paid they go their separate ways but Will gives up a chance to keep working so one of the other hands (Big Foot) can go to Kansas City to see his ailing Dad. Will ends up being a line rider for another outfit. He has lots of territory to cover and isn't expected to return till Spring. He finds that someone is occupying the line rider's shack (Joan Hackett and her young son). They were abandoned by their guide on the way to Oregon. He remembers her and she him from a bar/restaurant they were both in previously. He tells her she has to be gone when he gets back, he needs to inspect the layout of the land. He comes back a dying man, she nurses him back to health and a beautiful love story begins. I've left out a lot of major and minor details but the story is engrossing. What seems like a happy ending becomes more bittersweet but your imagination is left to ponder what may or may not happen in the future.Movie Review: real far west
Summary: 5 Stars
Will Penny is a mature cowboy -50 years old as he declares to Joan Hackett should be much for so physical hard work in the late nineteenth century- Furthermore he has passed all his life alone, has learned all in taverns, knows only the fragile friendship of another few cattlemen and only treats with prostitutes when he can.And from all that comes the heart of this magnificent film. Penny, a brave man, and potentially even a good father, as he teaches well and wins the confidence of the little child, is coward when he has the opportunity to marry with the only woman he has loved in his full life.
Perhaps truly he feels too old and unable to abandon his erratic existence, perhaps is the custom of living alone so long time, he rejects that opportunity. Charlton Heston and all actors are superb here excepting perhaps the excessive fool preacher. A rare, exceptional western and excellent film, impossible to think in the world of special effects of today
Movie Review: Heston Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I usually don't waste my time on thes matters but in responce to the reviewer "ageofanxiety", it is typical like that reviewer to "stereotype" Heston into the catagory of what the previous reviewer states that Heston is a actor that has "pompous roles" and STEROTYPES Heston as a "Conservative" in most of his films.Well, that is that person's opinion and it is wrong to put a great actor such as Heston into that catagory.Typical of today's reviewer that think they are experts in "avante cinnema garde" films or whatever that crap means. A movie is a MOVIE. Your so-called form of "art" is your OPINION and nothing else!This was a classic Heston role and if you want to see Heston really ACT, then I suggest you see his dual acting role in the classic movie "Mother Lode".Movie Review: Understated and underrated western
Summary: 5 Stars
Will Penny is a gem of a western. Charleton Heston plays a quiet, ageing and illiterate cow-hand who's known only ranch work his whole life. Much of Will Penny is a realistic depiction of life in the West. The drifting, seasonal aspect of cowboy life and the work involved in ranching. Tom Gries does a great job with the script and Heston is excellent as Will Penny.
This isn't an over the top action epic. While there is a shoot out it's not the center of the tale really. The center of the tale is instead the character of Will Penny. Donald Pleasance is great as the slightly psychotic preacher/thief. Lee Majors, Slim Pickens and Bruce Dern give great performances as well.
Heston plays Will Penny with understated dignity and realism. This may be Heston's best performance and an undiscovered classic.
Movie Review: A Great Western
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the late Chuck Heston's favorite films, this is the tale of an aging cowboy in a changing world. Will Penny is an illiterate, aging cowboy who does the only job he has known since he was young and finds a mother and son, love and comes to the realization that he can't be what they need -- in own his mind does the right thing -- and rides away. It is a wonderful, low-key film with one of Heston's best performances (in a career so full of them) with great supporting work by Joan Hatckett, Donald Pleasance, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe, Ben Johnson, J.D. Spradlin and his debut movie role, Lee Majors. A wonderful, moving western. If you are a fan of western films, this one has to be a part of your collection. No if's, an's or but's. Nice background featurete.