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- 1966
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 38 m
- 1966
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 38 m
Summary Man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.
Directed By: Sidney J. Furie
Written By: James Bridges, Roland Kibbee, Robert MacLeod
- 1966
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 38 m
- 1966
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 38 m
The Appaloosa
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Summary Man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.
Directed By: Sidney J. Furie
Written By: James Bridges, Roland Kibbee, Robert MacLeod
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Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
46
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
100% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Essentially a film of mordant feeling in which violence is always just below the surface of pokerfaced bluffing and fake Old-World Spanish courtesy.
The film has its moments, but is rendered virtually unwatchable by Furie's mania for weirdly mannered camera angles (you spend half the time peering round, over or under obstacles behind which the action is strategically placed) and enormous, pointless close-ups.
Director Furie's stylistic method of dwelling on certain scenes, a penchant for close-ups so large and exasperating as to blot out the screen and confuse the vision, worked effectively in his Ipcress File, but here his shots of teeth, guns, horses' eyes, Brando's jowls, and Comer's brow are merely specious, distracting, and as amateurish as a TV director shooting into the sun for reflection or allowing water on the camera lens to remind the viewer that technicians are present.
A dog of a movie about a horse.
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Western Heritage Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
