The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean {kickass s.com} {gkline}

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068853/


The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)


Director: John Huston

Producer: John Foreman

Cast: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Ava Gardner, Tab Hunter, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Perkins, Victoria Principal, Anthony Zerbe, Ned Beatty.



Rated PG

2 hrs 4 mins

Westerns

On DVD 06-03-2003



SYNOPSIS



A comic take on the legendary hanging judge, Roy Bean. Told through a series of vignettes, the story covers different stages of Bean\'s life, from his arrival in the town of Vinegaroon where he sets himself up as judge, through his romance with a local Mexican girl, to the destruction of the town in a devastating fire.




REVIEW

A beguiling Western, even if the John Milius script got semi-strangled along the way. Hawkish mythmaker extraordinary, Milius saw Judge Bean - outlaw turned self-appointed law-giver - as an embodiment of the ambivalent virtues of the old West: evil but necessary, a robber baron achieving tragic grandeur as \'a man who comes in and builds something and then is discarded by what he built\'. As such, he should have had the same outsize dimensions as the Teddy Roosevelt of The Wind and the Lion, but emerges somewhat diminished in Newman\'s portrayal of a winsome charmer straight out of Butch Cassidy (complete with lyrical interludes and a stickily dreadful song). Playing both ends against the middle, Huston turns it into a rumbustious, episodic lark stuffed with eccentric cameos, but still manages to invest it with his own quizzical attitude to all myths and mythmakers, so that it can be read as an allegory about the capitalistic corruptions of Nixon\'s America. On the whole, an underrated film.






Codec: Xvid
Size: 698MB
Runtime: 02:10:36
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Bitrate: 655 kb/s
FPS: 23.976
Qf: 0.091 bits/pixel
Audio: English. No sub.
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