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Monte Walsh

Name: Monte Walsh
Genre: Western
Released: 1970-09-26
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 6.292

★ 6,3 /10 (65 Votes)

1970 EN 99 min

Overview

Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.

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Release date

26/09/1970

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Popularity

1.0

Monte Walsh is what the West was all about.

Genres

Western

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

99 min

Budget

$5,000,000

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Richard Farnsworth

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Fred Waugh

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Henry A. Escalante

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Leroy Johnson

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William Graeff Jr.

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John Carter

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William A. Fraker Jr.

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Kurtis Roberts

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Guy Wilkerson

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Roy Barcroft

Proprietor

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I ain't spitting on my whole life. Monte Walsh is the debut feature of cameraman-turned-director William A.Fraker. It stars Lee Marvin (Monte Walsh) & Jack Palance (Chet Rollins) as two ageing cowboys who find that the era of the cowpoke is coming to an end - and that work for them is now very hard to come by. Adapted by David Zelag Goodman & Lukas Heller from Jack Schaefer's novel, Monte Walsh is a gentle but astute telling of men who have outlived their time (think Will Penny/Ride The High Country). Though very sedate in pacing, and almost elegiac in tone, the film constantly remains inte…

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**_The fun and challenges of the dwindling cowboy way-of-life_** As the open-range West dies in the 1890s with corporations taking over the ranches, two aging cowhands try to survive in the new era of fenced-in land (Lee Marvin and Jack Palance). While they set their eyes on women and possible marriage (e.g. Jeanne Moreau), out-of-work cowboys become desperate (e.g. Mitchell Ryan). "Monte Walsh" (1970) is similar to Charlton Heston’s “Will Penny” from 2.5 years earlier, but it cost almost four times as much and yet “Penny” is arguably the better Western. They’re at least on par, althoug…

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