The Long Riders
During the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, outlaws who terrorize the Midwestern United States. Due to an event, the groups of brothers go their separate ways, but they soon regroup for an ill-fated bank job in Northfield, Minn., that results in an epic chase.
16 May 1921, Saugus, California, USA
8 October 1930, Kirksville, Missouri, USA
18 September 1950, Kern, California, USA
12 October 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA
3 April 1926, Los Angeles County, California, USA
8 August 1949, San Mateo, California, USA
31 December 1933, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 March 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 April 1954, Houston, Texas, USA
29 November 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 February 1948, New York City, New York, USA
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
28 October 1943, Springhill, Louisiana, USA
10 November 1946, Evanston, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 October 1948, New York City, New York, USA
21 November 1933, Savannah, Georgia, USA
1 October 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
14 April 1938, San Diego, California, USA
3 May 1948, Viroqua, Wisconsin, USA
14 September 1938, Dayton, Ohio, USA
13 May 1942, Hinsdale, Illinois, USA
5 March 1923
April 02, 2008
One of the more idiosyncratic James gang westerns but not necessarily one of the better ones.
February 05, 2008
Walter Hill's first outright failure.
July 01, 2011
Hill's lean, mean approach never had a more appealing texture than it does here...
February 05, 2008
Sacrificing investigations into the mentality behind America's most feared band of outlaws, Hill plumps for an evocation of time and place. He does a magnificent job.
February 14, 2010
A Western Nirvana
October 07, 2011
Hill is very much in the American grain, the inheritor of the Ford-Hawks-Walsh tradition of artful, understated action film making.
February 05, 2008
What's ultimately missing is a definable point of view which would tie together the myriad events on display and fill in the blanks which Hill has imposed on the action by sapping it of emotional or historical meaning.
June 27, 2008
The casting problems aside, this is a fairly solid, but not particularly extraordinary film.
February 05, 2008
A superb, nitty-gritty retelling of the story of the James-Younger gang.
May 04, 2012
The Long Riders isn't quite sure which way it wants to ride, but the action scenes and cinematography make up for any misdirection.
February 05, 2008
It is an action film, an engaging one, and covers old ground with a contemporary style which never feels out of place.
February 09, 2006
A beautiful, laconic and unsentimental film.
