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starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Buseydirected by: Michael Cimino
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0086162454738
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: August 16, 1989
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 60037
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
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Amazon.com essential video:
Jeff Bridges actually corralled an Oscar nomination for his spirited, oddball performance in this genre crime story, directed by first-timer Michael Cimino who (a short two films later) would bring down a studio with Heaven's Gate. Clint Eastwood plays a bank robber par excellence with a flair for explosives who is being hunted by his former partners, who think he has their loot from their last job. Bridges is his eager apprentice and sidekick, who helps him escape; when Eastwood finally makes peace with his hunters, Bridges convinces them to try a daring robbery--but things inevitably go awry. The relationship between Eastwood and Bridges is both funny and touching in this, one of Eastwood's better post-Dirty Harry efforts. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Classic Clint
Hadn't seen this for years and saw it mentioned on a Eastwood TV tribute so I bought it. What a great trip down memory lane. Classic early Clint with great performances from the other actors. Felt like I was up watching the Million Dollar Movie at 2am.
Rating:  - thunderbolt and lightfoot
being a big fan of East Clintwood and Jeff Bridges, I wanted to see this early movie. It was great, only problem, the definition stinks, worse than VCR movies, so my flat screen made up for it by reducing the projected image on the screen by half. I have a 40 in. screen and ended up with a 30 inch picture, had I known that, I probably would have not ordered that DVD.
Rating:  - Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts
Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers. Written by {booda@datasync.com}
Rating: - "You stick with me kid. You're gonna live forever."
This 1974 caper movie manages the neat trick of both delivering what the audience wants and subverting their expectations at the same time. Clint Eastwood plays a crook on the run from ex-partners in crime George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis (often hysterically funny here) who teams up with Jeff Bridges' extrovert drifter to retrieve the loot from a previous robbery only to find his old accomplices tagging along and things - naturally - not going at all to plan. It's an almost perfectly judged mixture ... Read More
Rating: - OVERLOOKED GEM!
A suprisingly touching and humorous movie that wrongly gets overlooked when people mention movies Clint Eastwoods has starred in. Although, it's Jeff Bridges who steals every scene and it seems Clint doesn't mind one bit. It's one of the few movies you can catch Eastwood crack a genuine smile, Jeff Bridges brings something fatherly out of Clint that is very sincere and real. The caper itself is beside the point, it's about these two misfits living day by day, and coping with life as its been dealt to ... Read More
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