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The hook in Walter Hill's mythic retelling of the James-Younger outlaw legend is in the casting; the James, Younger, Miller, and Ford Brothers are played by a string of acting brothers, the Keachs, the Carradines, the Quaids and the Guests. The film begins as outlaws are robbing a bank. After the robbery, Ed Miller (Dennis Quaid) finds himself kicked out of the gang for needlessly killing a man during the robbery. Jesse James (James Keach) hands over Ed's share of the money and tells him to
May 16, 1980 Wide
Mar 20, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment
All Critics (23) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (5) | DVD (7)
Hill is very much in the American grain, the inheritor of the Ford-Hawks-Walsh tradition of artful, understated action film making.
Walter Hill's first outright failure.
What's ultimately missing is a definable point of view which would tie together the myriad events on display and fill in the blanks which Hill has imposed on the action by sapping it of emotional or historical meaning.
On revisiting it for the first time in twenty years, I was dismayed to see how far The Long Riders had fallen.
Hill's lean, mean approach never had a more appealing texture than it does here...
A Western Nirvana
The casting problems aside, this is a fairly solid, but not particularly extraordinary film.
One of the more idiosyncratic James gang westerns but not necessarily one of the better ones.
Sacrificing investigations into the mentality behind America's most feared band of outlaws, Hill plumps for an evocation of time and place. He does a magnificent job.
It is an action film, an engaging one, and covers old ground with a contemporary style which never feels out of place.
A superb, nitty-gritty retelling of the story of the James-Younger gang.
A beautiful, laconic and unsentimental film.
Walter Hill's first Western is atmospheric and remarkably authentic by casting real-life thespian brothers as real-life outlaw brothers.
The Long Riders is well-done film about the legendary Jesse James.
Very good western that has been forgotten about and notable for the casting of the Keach brothers, the Guest brothers, the Carradine brothers and the Quaid brothers in the main roles of the James-Younger gang.Starts off with a bank raid which goes slightly wrong setting the scene for a 'Young Guns' type western only
October 30, 2011Super Reviewer
Like Sam Fuller? Peckinpah? Walter Hill? The Carradine's? The Keach's? The Quaids? The Guests? Then you'll probably enjoy The Long Riders. It is however ANOTHER retelling of Jesse James and his gang story, but at least this is one of the better ones.
May 20, 2007Super Reviewer
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