Wild Bill (1995)
Genre: Action / Western
Duration: 98 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Walter Hill
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin and John Hurt
IMDb score:
5,8 (8.696)
Releasedate: 1 December 1995
Wild Bill plot
"The Name Is Legendary. The Man Is Real."
Wild Bill Hickok, a legend in the Wild West, is haunted by his reputation and his past. Young Jack McCall follows in his footsteps. He later accuses Bill of abandoning his mother. McCall has sworn to kill Bill.
Actors and actresses
Wild Bill Hickok
Calamity Jane
Charley Prince
Susannah Moore
Buffalo Bill Cody
Jack McCall
Lurline Newcomb
Will Plummer
California Joe
Preacher
Reviews & comments
Decec
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- 6747 messages
- 8610 votes
Reasonable western/action film...
Not really an exciting story...
Reasonable acting...
Nice famous actors:
Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Bruce Dern and
James Gambon...
Too bad that sometimes color and then black and white...
(not widescreen, not 4:3, even smaller, but still beautiful
recording)...
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mister blonde
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- 12709 messages
- 5848 votes
I actually thought it was a great movie. It's kind of a campfire story, where things are blown up, magnified and we jump from one random climax to another (however it suits). The framework itself also contains narratives that do the same thing. When one of his friends talks about a shootout, the opponents were meaner, more ruthless and, above all, far more numerous than they probably really were. You can see from Bridges' reaction that little of it is correct anymore. This makes “Wild Bill” somewhat fragmentary and certainly historically inaccurate, but I didn't find it that much of a problem. Films based on real events and characters are never actually honest narratives. Whether in small side plots or main issues; You never know exactly where the true story ends and fiction begins. But even historians are not sure whether many 'facts' from the Wild West really happened that way. Hill doesn't seem really interested in this and his men-who-tell-strong-stories approach worked for me.
Technically this is again very good. Beautifully filmed, beautiful shootouts. I also thought the locations, decoration, etc. etc. were well cared for. I also thought the pace was fine, although it does drop off a bit after an hour (because we get stuck on the run-up to the last high/low), but then picks up again. Big 3.5 stars.
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Sergio Leone
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- 4431 messages
- 3112 votes
Meh.
Not really a successful film adaptation. Quite fragmentary in nature and therefore I barely got into the film for the first half hour. That is not convenient for a film of an hour and a half.
The characters hardly have any depth and some actors are very hesitant in their performances. Here and there Walter Hill can provide a stimulus, but as a whole this is anything but his best film.
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