This is a list of Western movies/films with performances by Robert Duvall, listed alphabetically with movie trailers when available. Kevin Costner grew up reading the western romance novels of Lauran Paine and Open Range is based on Paine's 1990 novel The Open Range Men. All of STARZ blockbuster movies, epic originals, and addictive series. Actor: The Apostle. Kyle Anderson, Part Bonnie & Clyde, part Greek tragedy, Ain't Them Bodies Saints stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as Bob and Ruth, 1970s-era Texas crooks. He's played by Gene Hackman, because of course he's played by Gene Hackman, a villain who's one mustache short of a twirl. Making a splash: A deep dive into the live-action Little Mermaid with a new generation's Ariel. Costner admitted in an interview for this film that he has always wanted to film a scene where he fans a six-gun way over the realistic amount of shots, and that this scene was indeed very enjoyable to make. What could go wrong? ROBERT DUVALL celebrates his 91st birthday this week with three films currently in production. Chris Nashawaty, Many on this list make efforts to subvert the genre, but Kelly Reichart's evocative, purgatorial film is a true anti-Western. Part 1 - 'Leaving' Former Texas Rangers and long-time ranching partners Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call meet their old friend Jake, and decide to strike out from their south Texas base and drive Part 2 - 'On The Trail' McCrae and Wood's cattle drive faces deadly situations. Some of my best work has been on television., I also liked the one I did for AMC up in CanadaBroken Trail, with Thomas Haden Church and the five Chinese girls. Duvall got bucked off a horse and broke six ribs while practicing his riding for this role.[1]. They called me up and I told them, Ill do a little part. Copyright 2023 Meredith Corporation. In the words of critic Elaine Mancini, Duvall was "the most technically proficient, the most versatile, and the most convincing actor on the screen . A half-century after Sergio Leone made his Dollars trilogy, Slow West serves as a reminder that you don't have to be American, nor even in America, to make a great Western. Button is badly injured after being shot in the chest. His career spans more than seven decades and he is considered one of the greatest American actors of all time. Sub out a stagecoach for Imperator Furiosa's War Rig, and the whole thing might as well be the most insane John Ford movie ever made. Which is a major reason why Duvall has been singled out for a special honor during the Western Heritage Awards at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Id seen him rope a baby coyote. That's not how McCarthy sees the world, and this Coen brothers film has Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) learn that the hard way, as he goes up against evil incarnate, Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh. The location was so far from civilization that they had to spend $40,000 to build a road to get there before they could start construction. This is a tale of Biblical justice served up by a writer who's clearly familiar with the Book of Job. property). [Laughs.] The film nicely nods in the direction of Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, but becomes satisfyingly physical in its closing sequences. [citation needed], Filming took place from June 17, 2002, to September 8, 2002. [10], "The 50 greatest westerns Open Range (2003)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Range_(2003_film)&oldid=1151777651, This page was last edited on 26 April 2023, at 05:12. For reasons we won't detail here, the third act sees what seemed to be a tense cowboy movie enter another dimension altogether. Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's. Open Range is a rock-solid Western in the tradition of the best in the genre. Open Range (2003 film) - Wikipedia A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while trekking from Oregon to Wyoming. After catching masked riders scouting their cattle, Boss and Charley sneak up on their campsite, disarm, and humiliate them. He is scheduled to receive the prestigious lifetime achievement award. Charley Waite: Well you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying. Depp voices a lost city-boy chameleon, a wannabe actor who stumbles his way into the sheriff's job in a town called Dirt. And for once my family could sit down and watch a movie without all the smut, swearing and extreme violence that unfortunately, all movie makers of late, seem to think is necessary to sell them. It became the first Western to win Best Picture since Cimmaron in 1931,brought the genre back from the dead, and helped pave the way for a more reflective Clint Eastwoodto get back in the saddle two years later. Swank gives a powerful performance, though whether The Homesman really counts as a "feminist" Western depends on how you interpret the film's ultimate treatment of her. The 25 Best Modern Western Movies | EW.com - Entertainment Weekly Top-rated miniseries! BY And he wrote in the letter how much he was moved by that death scene. I cant remember stuff from two weeks ago sometimes, but I remember things specifically from my uncles ranch. Find where to watch Robert Duvall's latest movies and tv shows And then one day, I saw him take off full speed, and cut off and touch an antelope on the neck. Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), 9. But the real terror awaits at Candyland, ruled by the tag-team evil of Leonardo DiCaprio's gleeful racist and Samuel L. Jackson's prudent collaborator-servant. For that, he won two Emmy Awards, one for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie and the other for Outstanding Miniseries which he shared with the other producers. After Button has recovered, Charley and Boss decide to retire from the cattle business after delivering their current herd and settle down in Harmonville, taking over the saloon. Actor Sue's brother tends to the wounded townspeople while the dead are buried, and the town is cleaned up. Guy Pearce and Richard Wilson play two of the three Burns brothersa gang of notorious, snake-bitten outlaws who are captured by a weary lawman played by Ray Winstone. "I don't care how old you are," he snapsand that same appreciation of a finely-aged classical style is inherent in Costner's small-C conservative filmmaking. Robert Duvall | Western Series Wiki | Fandom Thats where it all kind of started for me.