Nevada Smith (1966)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Jun 10, 1966 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 3,149
Movie Info
Henry Hathaway's film is based on a character from Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers, who, in turn, based it on cowboy actor Ken Maynard. Set in the West of the 1890s, the film opens with the torture and murder of the parents of Max Sand (Steve McQueen) by a trio of gunslingers seemingly motivated by their hostility toward the mixed nature of the marriage, since the wife is a Native American. Swearing revenge, the young cowhand enlists the help of itinerant gunsmith Jonas Cord Brian Keith, who
Jun 10, 1966 Wide
Apr 22, 2003
Paramount Pictures
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Cast
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Steve McQueen
Nevada Smith/Max Sand -
Karl Malden
Tom Fitch -
Brian Keith
Jonas Cord -
Arthur Kennedy
Bill Bowdre -
Suzanne Pleshette
Pilar -
Raf Vallone
Father Zaccardi -
Janet Margolin
Neesa -
Pat Hingle
Big Foot -
Howard Da Silva
Warden -
Martin Landau
Jesse Coe -
Paul Fix
Sheriff Bonnell -
Gene Evans
Sam Sand -
Josephine Hutchinson
Mrs. Elvira McCanles -
John Doucette
Uncle Ben McCanles -
Val Avery
Buck Mason -
Sheldon Allman
Sheriff -
Lyle Bettger
Jack Rudabaugh -
Bert Freed
Quince -
David McLean
Romero -
Steve Mitchell
Buckshot -
Merritt Bohn
Riverboat Pilot -
Sandy Kenyon
Bank Clerk -
John Lawrence
Hogg -
Stanley Adams
Storekeeper -
George Mitchell
Paymaster -
John Litel
Doctor -
Ted de Corsia
Hudson Bartender -
Strother Martin
Strother -
Ric Roman
Cipriano
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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (3) | DVD (7)
Not a worthless film, although it's impossible to take seriously.
Overlong, dull and labored follow-up to Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers.
Gritty revenge western with McQueen in top form.
The best thing that can be said about Nevada Smith is that it goes in, does what it needs to do, and gets out before it's too late.
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- Nevada Smith/Max Sand: I've got a rifle, a horse and eight dollars. It'll hold.
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At age 36, Steve McQueen is a bit hard to believe as a 'kid'. The story obviously spans many years in Max Sand's life and if the writers had played this up more McQueen's age would not have mattered. Even showing Max and Alex Chord in a winter setting followed by spring, something to show an extensive passage of time would have helped make McQueen's age more fitting.
A superb cast of supporting actors backs up McQueen. Brian Keith is the perfect father figure who takes Max in and teaches him to use firearms and tells him about life and how to find the men who killed his parents. Suzanne Pleshette cannot be made to look bad no matter how hard the make up department tries. Even dirty and sweaty in the swamp, her natural beauty and class shine. These traits and her unique voice and soft movements steal any scene she is in. She almost upstages McQueen. Martin Landau, Arthur Kennedy and Karl Malden are as bad as any movie villains I ever saw.