When Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars was released, with its uncompromisingly vivid characterizations, sparse, almost symbolic backdrops, and evocative, minimalist scores, the Western was changed forever. Frank Tanner is the perfect villain, and Jon Cypher resembles those old villain with his turfy eyebrows and mustache. 5) 10 Movies Like Knock at the Cabin. Today, many guitarists sound something like Jimi Hendrix, possibly without even being aware of it. But when he comes back a second time with the same request, Tanners men beat him, tie him to a cross, and send him crawling home or, more likely, to die in the dust and the sun. After killing an innocent man in self defence, Mexican-American lawman Bob Valdez(BURT LANCASTER)asks gunrunning rancher Frank Tanner(JON CYPHER),who instigated the chaos, to pay the dead man's wife compensation. 6) Crash Course in Romance Episode 9 Recap & Review. Now its not just about justice for the woman: its also about his own honor and the need to turn this humiliation and defeat into victory. You have money, but you dont have a woman. Made by fans in Aotearoa New Zealand. Davis (Richard Jordan) shot up the hovel where the wrongly accused man and his Indian wife were trapped. Despite Gay Erin's help, Valdez is finally surrounded and captured. The desert-like terrain of this isolated region of Spain resembles the U.S. southwest and parts of Sonora, Mexico, though the vegetation is not the same. The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket. Gen. Crook and Staff 7th Cavalry Troop A. Apache Territory 8 May 1883. It turns out Only Good Ones is in the collection of Leonards stories I do have (The Tonto Woman and other stories) thanks for the heads-up about its relationship to Valdez is Coming, as I hadnt really intended to read the whole volume. After he survives a jaunt through the desert, the old Valdez digs into his trunk and dresses up like the sage cavalry scout that he once was and comes to collect. And I think there's nothing more important in writing than getting it right, the way people sound. TMDb Parts of the movie reminded me of Point Blank and Payback. Hombre? Highly recommended. I am not 100% sure revenge accurately sums up what he wants, though: that sounds petty, but what he wants seems almost grand. There are no featured reviews for Valdez Is Coming because the movie has not released yet (). The dialogue is cool and captures that nonchalance that is so characteristically Elmore Leonard. If you are a Burt Lancaster fan, this is one of his last kick ass westerns. After reading it, I said to a close friend, 'Hey, this is a great story and it'd be another great movie" So, when he told me it already was, I just had to get it and have a look. 'Valdez' is such an unusual Western and only someone of Lancaster's pedigree could have played the part of Bob Valdez and do it justice. Although, Tanner is the main obstacle, Valdez is also challenged by Tanner's formidable collection of professional gunmen assembled by his experienced right-hand man, El Segundo (Barton Heyman). Leonard is generally better known for his crime stories ("Rum Punch" and Get Shorty and "Out of Sight" and "Maximum Bob"), but for me, his most compelling and richest material is his Westerns. He delivers it and then lies dying, and we spend nearly two pages with him as he reflects on Valdez, and on his own life and immanent death: He should have thought more about the way the man stood at the wall and watched them shoot at him. Burt Lancaster is fantastic and show's why he is and was a superstar. This is not a spaghetti western!!! Copyright Fandango. Letterboxd Limited. It is Heathcliff who seeks revenge, and his victims are more or less innocent. He had no feeling in his left side, from his chest into his legs. Show All, 91mins . [2], When director Sydney Pollack was attached to the property, Lancaster was originally slated to play Frank Tanner with Marlon Brando as Valdez. We dont have Books-A-Million up here! It told the story of Valdez, no first name, a Mexican-American who works as the town constable because he's able to get along with everyone and gives the impression that he knows how to take orders. Moby-Dick. Townsmen and friends alike, know little of him or his background, until an uneventful day when a rich and powerful land Baron, incites all to chase and corner an ex-army soldier because he "looks familiar." It walks the line between the tone of Spaghetti westerns and American revisionist westerns while setting its own pace. I think the essential climax of the revenge plot is the moment of recognition of the avenger: the guilty one realizes both that he (all examples that come to mind have guilty males, though the avenger is sometimes a woman) is doomed and at whose hands the doom has come. Whatever else I take off depends on how lucky I get.". The badly injured Valdez is able to crawl to the ranch of his friend Diego (Frank Silvera), where he is nursed back to health. "The Tall T," "3:10 to Yuma," "Hombre," "Valdez is Coming," that I came to know and love Leonard's writing. its the same stories as always except their forcing the heroes to be POC like burt lancaster. Report this film, smh another WOKE western. 1971 #jolly exciting sequence# - YouTube 0:00 / 4:24 Valdez is coming! I also have some hesitations about teaching it: it is full of racial slurs, for one thing, and while I think its pretty clear not just that they are historically and contextually appropriate but also that the novel as a whole rejects the attitudes they express, that does create some pedagogical challenges. [1] Plot [ edit] James, Ive tried Leonards detective fiction but always given up as I just didnt enjoy the atmosphere or voice of it (and I hated the film version of Pulp Fiction so much I started a whole new academic research project as a result but thats another story). Moreover, he runs Valdez off after his gunmen tackled the older man, disarm him, and strap a cross to his back and send him wandering in the desert. Moreover, Sherin not only makes excellent use of the arid desert locations, but also stages the exciting shoot-outs with real flair and skill. Very good western, right up there with Lancaster's film of the same year, "Lawman". Adapted from the famous novel by Elmore Leonard. The moments of brutal violence pack a pretty harsh punch and the ending is pleasingly ambiguous. Valdez Is Coming. No Name. Might have been better with a more experienced director. Finally, it might be (mildly) interesting to compare this novel to its original genesis, the short story Only Good Ones (found in the terrific Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard, available at a Books-a-Million near you). Just look at the very clever way that Leonard has the image and memory of the pregnant widow gradually fade from Valdezs mind. What you say about True Grit seems right to me: it makes the moves but the tone is different. Leonard's splendid way of inventing odd turns of phrase and similes and making them sound as though there were no possible better way to describe something made him, in my opinion, one of the great wordsmiths of the past century. Mind you, this is also very formulaic, but some of the action is unforgettable, particularly when the villains make fun of Bob Valdez and tie a cross to his back and force him to walk through the desert at high noon. The film is a blast to watch. Occasionally, a film arrives with little or no fanfare and surprises many who expected just another film. What was wonderful was how well these writers captured the essence of Elmore Leonard: the clarity, the boiled-down-to-its-primary-ingredient precision, the humor to be found in the worst possible circumstances, the ability to flip a familiar phrase around to make it new and better. I wont spoil the fun by giving away any more details. Valdez believes it would be a fair gesture to raise $200 for the widow, $100 from Tanner and the rest from others in town. Valdez Is Coming executive producer (uncredited) 1971 The Scalphunters producer (uncredited) 1968 The Unforgiven co-producer (uncredited) 1960 Take a Giant Step executive producer (uncredited) 1959 The Devil's Disciple co-executive producer (uncredited) 1959 Sweet Smell of Success executive producer (uncredited) 1957 The Bachelor Party Cinemark We wont be able to verify your ticket today, but its great to know for the future. Most actors have to rely on dialog that only reveals plot or consciously explained back-story. Director: Edwin Sherin Writers: Roland Kibbee (screenplay), David Rayfiel (screenplay) Indeed, the African-American had been trapped in a small cabin at the foot of a rise, and several rifleman had kept him pinned down in the structure. Its enough to quote the pitch-perfectcover blurb: They were still laughing when Valdez came back. The humiliations suffered by Valdez early on, as well as the ruthlessness of the villains, are of such unequivocal nastiness that the film's ultimate satisfactions come not from the triumph of honor, but from the scope of the revenge. Valdez wounds one of the henchmen and sends him back to Tanner with the message, "Valdez is coming." Robbie Burns <burnodo@usit.net> He regularly reaffirms the code on behalf of people who dont have one. Afterward, Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster of "Lawman") goes around trying to take up a collection for the African-American's widow. It always strikes me as odd when a well known and celebrated white actor is given a Mexican or Indian role in a Western. Not very artful and undermined by some flat characterizations and run-of-the-mill elements; but Lancaster is very good and there are some inspired moments. It is an example of what became known as a "paella Western"; although the setting is ostensibly the American West, it was actually shot in southern Spain. A personal revenge that carries suspense, drive and grim realism. I havent read the Leonard novel, but Zachs comments reinforce the impression I got from your description that, while an idea of justice may be the initial motivation, the plot eventually turns into a story of revenge. Largely made. Unfortunately for Tanner, he has picked on the wrong man: Valdez is a wily, experienced Indian fighter and a marksman with a rifle. He gives new meaning to the word authentic. He descends on a mountain shack where a black man is accused by cattle baron and gunrunner Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher) of murdering his friend James Erin. Lancaster is interesting to watch as he plays the idealistic outsider up against the bigoted majority. These plans failed to materialize when Lancaster got involved in the 1970 movie Airport. to the chivalric tradition a tradition he shares in this country with the Westerner. A succinct summary of this moment occurs in Sondheims Sweeney Todd when Judge Turpin realizes in whose barber chair he is seated with his throat exposed; both he and Todd have the same line, first the judge in astonished fear, Benjamin Barker!, then Sweeney, in triumph, Benjamin Barker!. *****. An incident involving a black man who is holed up in a shack with his native American woman escalates after the man is killed by the town constable, a Mexican who had served in the US Cavalry chasing Apaches. It might have been the 2008 return match, won by St-Pierre, one of MMA's all-time greats. Valdez is Coming? with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more. By creating an account, you agree to the If Frankensteins monster (with whom I strongly sympathize and identify like me, he loves Goethe!) So when I became, for a time, part of the cast of "Justified," the FX TV series based on Leonard's work, I hoped that I would actually get to say some real Leonard dialog. But now there was more to it. "She was scheduled to be an old maid till Willard come along. Perhaps it's because I've been more devoted to Westerns (as films) than any other genre for much of my adult life, or perhaps it's because (I find) his Westerns have been generally more successfully adapted to films. Obwohl Valdez vom leben gezeichnet und wirklich fertig aussieht, ist er irgendwie doch zu weich fr diese knallharte Welt. I say "authentic-sounding," because as colorful as real Western folk are, few consistently speak with the poetic perfection of an Elmore Leonard line. It was a powerful image, and a great relic of 70s movie advertising. Valdez wins and Tanner loses everything. His side was hanging open and draining his life as he looked at the sky. By continuing, you agree to the Privacy Policy and
If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Weekly Recommendation Thread, Suggested Reading page, or ask in r/suggestmeabook. Please reference Error Code 2121 when contacting customer service. Are there anti-detective novels out there? Overlooked underrated gem of a western!!!! Valdez wins and Tanner loses everything. I mean, isnt this exactly the sort of situation that Steve Donoghue is *here* for? Burt Lancaster plays a Mexican in this one. Other examples would be Paul Newman as "Hombre" (1967) and Chuck Connors as "Geronimo" (1962). StarringBurt Lancaster Susan Clark Frank Silvera Jon Cypher Richard Jordan Directed byEdwin Sherin The Secretary The Secretary, who calls. I think maybe part of the shame of liking Poe (there is some shame, I think) is the possibility that one does perhaps identify, or at least sympathize, with his narrators. 3 Reply xyww 4 yr. ago Though I dont remember Wuthering Heights in enough detail to comment on the revenge aspects, what I do recollect of its atmosphere makes me think Emily Bronte was one Victorian who could relish the savage attractions of the revenge plot. In Frankenstein, though the monster aims his vengeance at Frankenstein, he does it by the murder of innocents. . I'm sorry I never got to meet him, to tell him how those lines in "The Tall T" inspired me in my own writing, to tell him how proud I was to be part of a show he was at the heart of. Why you ask! Valdez demands $100 compensation from Tanner to pay the expenses for the wrongfully accused Negros pregnant Apache widow and the sheriff promises his boys will kick in a matching $100 if Tanner pays. . Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. Wuthering Heights. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Valdez is a low-key, obsequious sort until events force him to kill a man who was unjustly suspected of murder. The one man apocalypse that is Bob Valdez kidnaps Tanner's fiance Gay Erin(SUSAN CLARK)and escapes deep into the mountains. Valdez, while holed up in the mountain, kills eleven of Tanners hired gunslingers, and in the end faces Tanner down still demanding compensation as the remaining gunslingers refuse anymore to obey Tanners orders. But in every case, deep down, the cathartic fantasy of unrestricted payback fuels the fantasy. That Leonard grew up in Detroit and not Santa Fe or Laramie or Yuma is a bit disconcerting, because it seems impossible that he could write so well of those people without having been one of them his whole life. Instead, a Regiment would have been commanded by a Colonel. This western surpasses most if not all of the spaghetti's. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), There Was More To It: Elmore Leonard, Valdez Is Coming. On top of this, the story is its own thing as it defies expectations left and right. All rights reserved. ''The Lawman' (which i watched last month) and then this one and then Ulzanas Raid (which. While I try to divorce myself from the source material since I'm not reviewing that, Valdez Is Coming comes out as barebones with the story feeling incomplete or perplexing as they let out several scenes out that would've given the actions the necessary context they deserved. Still Valdez has a problem when RL tells Frank of Bob's friend's helping him and this act of betrayal proves once and for all that RL is a greedy lowlife simply desiring to be one of the guys. The opening scene begins like a Sunday picnic/Turkey shoot: well-dressed couples in period costumes milling around, young boys plunking away with their new rifles. This is a moderated subreddit. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. He orders ranch hand El Segundo (Barton Heyman) and his men to tie Valdez to a heavy wooden cross and drive him into the desert. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. this book), balancing it and/or disguising it with idealized notions of justice and fair play (e.g. Valdez is the missing link between the wild frontier and the civilized west. In Valdez is Coming, adapted from the co-titled Elmore Leonard novel, Leone's moralistically stark paradigm acquires a conscience and characters that, while as vividly drawn as the Master's, are discernibly more real. He sets her free, but by now Tanner's woman is sympathetic to his cause, feeling guilty because she was the cause of all the deaths so far. Largely seen as a revisionist western, it's actually fairly traditional for the most part until an ending that was so surprisingly low-key I thought the last couple of minutes had been cut off.. More at Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised Lancaster's on-screen presence but wrote that, "A lot of fancy flourishes, which I associate with Mr. Sherin's stage work, are apparent in the film, as in its picturesque groupings of picturesque characters, and in a musical score that's much given to comment on the action. Although the Title, in 2016, could be a Warning coming out of a Donald Trump Rally, in 1971 it was from the Pen of Elmore Leonard's Social Consciousness along with Soul Traveler and Actor Burt Lancaster. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Tanner is livid at the old man's suggestion. I still can't feature Burt as a Mexican, though. He knows the mountains and is a wily problem for Frank to solve. All right, you pay for the man and you get your woman.. Press J to jump to the feed. western, outlaw, cowboy, shootout or gunfight western, cowboy, outlaw, wild or frontier violence, action, guns, cops or killing historical, epic, battle, historic or fought racism, african american, powerful, hatred or slavery The fine acting by the able cast constitutes as another major plus: Lancaster makes for a credible and sympathetic reluctant man of action, Susan Clark gives her role as Tanner's fed-up mistress Gay Erin a substantial amount of class and depth, Frank Silvera does well as Valdez's loyal friend Diego, Barton Heyman likewise impresses as the shrewd El Segundo, Richard Jordan positively oozes as despicable sniveling weakling R.L. In motion pictures, Frank Silvera was cast as black, Latino, Polynesian and "white"/racially indeterminate (due to black + white film stock's lack of discernment when rendering light . It's one of those vendetta entertainments that often frequent the multiplexes in the 60's and 70's when the rules, thanks in large part to Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch", were starting to be broken. Still, Icant imagine reading a lot of books like this not in a row, certainly. At the summary states, this film truly made an unusual casting decision by casting Burt Lancaster as a Hispanic man. Im surprised, really, how much fun I found Valdez Is Coming. The resulting confrontation was instigated by thoroughly nasty land baron Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher), who turns out to be a very bad guy indeed. A few racial epithets later and we realize the man is (a) black and (b) possibly innocent of the crime he is accused of. The murder suspect ends up dead, and Valdez believes that his Indian wife should be compensated. Selbst wenn er dann am Ende einen nach dem anderen umlegt, was brigens wirklich Spa macht, kauft man ihm das immer noch nicht so richtig ab. Valdez Is Coming is a 1971 American Western film directed by Edwin Sherin and starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Richard Jordan and Jon Cypher. Tanner and his men relentlessly pursue Valdez through the hazardous terrain.However,if Valdez has his way, it will not be long before the hunter becomes the hunted Burt Lancaster plays an old Mexican/American stagecoach shotgun rider who finds himself forced to kill an African American during a stand-off with him while a lot of other people are watching. Newly minted North American Fuhrer John Smith (Rufus Sewell) and his wife are aboard. He automatically looked at him as a weak peasant instead of a great gunfighter and that theme works greatly here in this short and satisfying western. Roland Kibbee and David Rayfiel handle the screenplay duties. They take the form of detective stories, but turn self-referential and obscure, like postmodernist fiction, if Im using that term correctly. Rating: PG-13. The closest I came was meeting the writers of the show, two of whom were coincidentally named (Taylor) Elmore and Leonard (Chang). Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. In any event, it is through the movies made from his work, "The Tall T," "3:10 to Yuma," "Hombre," "Valdez is Coming," that I came to know and love Leonard's writing. The experience of a man may be hidden by time, but time cannot hide the experienced man. It takes a minute or so to realize that this is stand-off with a man sealed inside a log cabin. The action is taut. Valdez is freed by one of Tanner's henchmen (Richard Jordan) and, after convalescing, begins waging a one-man war against Tanner, picking off his men with his trusty Sharps rifle. A Mexican-American sheriff (Burt Lancaster) must resort to violence against a powerful rancher (Frank Tanner, played by Jon Cypher) in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian Read allA Mexican-American sheriff (Burt Lancaster) must resort to violence against a powerful rancher (Frank Tanner, played by Jon Cypher) in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.A Mexican-American sheriff (Burt Lancaster) must resort to violence against a powerful rancher (Frank Tanner, played by Jon Cypher) in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man. The chief culprit, a wealthy land owner named Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher) refuses to ante up a cent. Its to be expected, though, that the protagonist will have some depth, so what I appreciated more is the way key secondary characters also have their own motives and their distinct roles to play in the denouement, including Gay herself but also Tanners segundo. One of the best bits in the novel is whollyinessential to its plot but adds a great deal to the atmosphere and to our sense of the kind of world its characters live in. With her in restraints, Valdez proceeds to systematically do away with the men Tanner sends after him with his long-range Sharps rifle. Recommended viewing. Kudos are also in order for Gabor Pogany's crisp widescreen cinematography and the rousing dramatic score by Charles Gross. Valdez is told that a murdering black army deserter has holed up in a . False Positive offers a different ending: Lucy refuses to mother the twin . The film goes over-the-top showing how bigoted the men are, how they go to great lengths to humiliate Valdez, and that the men are so ruthless that they seem more like animals than human beings. The central pole is so long that Valdez must walk bent over. Even if his books look calm as Sunday on the outside, inside they're wild as mountain scenery. Frankenstein. Wuthering Heights does not fit your definition. Fast & Furious 9 ending spoilers follow. It isnt the language that made me think it could be considered more pulpy than True Grit more that it seems more unabashedly thrilling, if that makes sense. But, of course, Leonard isnt REALLY a pulp author, any more than Portis is. The army intervened and the revolts came to an end after three days on September 2. He was shown from underneath, like a giant with a shotgun in each hand. This Oater stars Burt Lancaster as a Mexican town constable. 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