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starring: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Douglas Fowley, Stan Haze, Damon Douglasdirected by: Frank D. Gilroy
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302658699
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302658691
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 6467
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1976-08
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A romantic western comedy
Graham Dorsey (Bronson) and his outlaw companions come across the mansion of Amanda (Jill Ireland) enroute to a bank robbery. Taking what they need, they leave Dorsey behind to make sure no talks. An utter cad, he is relieved not to be involved in the bank job and only too happy to be left to persue Amanda -- he is able to get her in the sack by giving a sob story about being impotent. In the course of the afternoon he leaves such an impression that she distorts into a grand romance like GONE ... Read More
Rating:  - Comedic Meditation of the Dangers of Romanticism & Media Hype
This is a wonderful comedy featuring an unusually vulnerable, comedic role for Charles Bronson as an Old West bank robber who gets involved with a lonely romance-addled widow, prone to exaggeration (played by Mrs. Bronson, Jill Ireland) and as a result, becomes an early victim of media hype and myth-making.
The tragicomic events that close out the film are absolutely priceless.
I hope someone sees fit to re-release this film in a new DVD edition. It's a fun film that ... Read More
Rating: - WHO KNEW CHARLES BRONSON HAD SUCH CHARM!
Charm is not a word usually associated with Charles Bronson, but he is chock full of it in this movie. While riding with a gang to rob a bank, his horse goes lame and his gang leaves him at the first house they stumble upon, owned by a rich widow played by Bronson's real life wife, Jill Ireland. The gang promises to return in what they figure will be 3 hours to pick him up, thus the name of the movie. Ireland is just gorgeous and Bronson almost attacks her but then goes for a sympathy play, (you ... Read More
Rating: - hollywood asleep at the wheel.
great storyline -- rattled my head at least three times. actually made me angry for denying the harmonious happy ending that was skillfully dangled over the audience in the latter part of the film. bronson and ireland worked hard for the standard ride off into the sunset and it didn't happen. the writer deserves heavy recognition but i saw none. if this film were on dvd, i would be ordering same instead of venting my frustration in this review. hmmm, well, not all my frustration. dvd, please.
Rating: - Deconstructing the Western Myth, Bronson Style
This is a darkly funny, romantic western by husband and wife team Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland, which deftly deconstructs the myth-making so many of the West's heroes are the product of. It's yet another overlooked classic by director Frank D. Gilroy, who struggled with little fanfare to create films not quite arty enought for the art-house crowd, yet not mainstream enough for the mainstream movie-goer. The results, as in this comedy, are a subtle unpacking of the "hero myth" and how fantasy is ... Read More
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