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Movie Info

At the end of the Wild West era, cowboys Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin) and Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) arrive in the town of Harmony, where they reconnect with their old friend Shorty Austin (Mitch Ryan). The former wanderers do their best to settle down: Chet gets married and finds work, while Monte pursues saloon girl Martine (Jeanne Moreau) to a nearby township. But when the doldrums of sedentary life set in, they begin falling apart and find themselves embroiled in robbery, murder and vandalism.

Rating:

PG-13 (Some Violence and Sexuality)
Genre:

western
Original Language:

English
Director:

William A. Fraker
Producer:

Hal Landers, Bobby Roberts
Release Date (Streaming):

Nov 16, 2010
Runtime:

1h 46m
Production Co:

Cinema Center Films, Landers-Roberts Productions

Cast & Crew

Lee Marvin
Monte Walsh

Jeanne Moreau
Martine Bernard

Jack Palance
Chet Rollins

Mitch Ryan
Shorty Austin

Jim Davis
Cal Brennan

John Hudkins
Sonny Jacobs

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Critic Reviews for Monte Walsh

All Critics (9) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (1)

as lovely a Western as I've seen in a long time... The movie is rough but it is almost always tender.

October 23, 2004 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Sporting a handsome cast and imbued with the right touch of technical appropriations, it's a rather humble offering following on the footsteps of iconic juggernauts of the genre.

October 21, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
Less a plot-driven Western oater, Monte Walsh is more a slow-moving but satisfying contemplation on the end days of the cowboy life.

May 30, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Christopher Lloyd
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The elegaic Western paints a bleak picture of the Old West coming to an end and of a group of cowboys desperately trying to hold onto an era.

July 31, 2008 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Marvin and Palance well cast in tale of has been cowboys meeting changes in Old West.

January 1, 2008 | Rating: 4/5

Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com
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November 5, 2004 | Rating: B

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
Because the filmmakers realized it was dull, they livened it up with cliches from more conventional westerns. There is a saloon fight and a bunkhouse brawl and a chase and: even a final gundown. The last low key and unconvincing.

November 20, 2003 | Full Review…

Tony Mastroianni
Cleveland Press
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August 22, 2003 | Rating: 4/5

Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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February 24, 2003 | Rating: 3/5

Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Audience Reviews for Monte Walsh

Feb 07, 2011

Looks like the actors in this movie had fun making it & Lee Marvin & Jack Palance clicked.A good movie & a good ending

Brody M Super Reviewer
Mar 01, 2009

Lee Marvin and Jack Palance are middle-aged ranch hands struggling to make a living in a rapidly changing world. Corporations are buying up huge tracts of land and fencing them in, driving open-range cowboys, like Marvin and Palance, to near extinction. There is an abundance of 'western' staples to be found here, things like saloon girls and poker games and bar room brawls and gunfights. Marvin's portrayal of Monte Walsh is solid. He's the quintessential, hard-living, hard-loving cowboy decked out with chaps and spurs and, in the end, fighting for all that is right and decent. Good film, great western.

Randy T Super Reviewer