Nevada Smith | Steve McQueen, Karl Malden

Nevada Smith | Steve McQueen, Karl Malden | Steve McQueen

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Nevada Smith

	Nevada Smith Steve McQueen, Karl Malden Paramount, 2003 average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Max Sand backstory in Harold Robbins's trashy The Carpetbaggers (an enjoyable wallow onscreen in 1964) made for a solid Western vehicle for Steve McQueen at his peak. Nevada Smith is a revenge movie, but closer in spirit to The Bravados than a Death Wish-style exercise in nihilism. Young Max, offspring of a white father and Indian mother, sets out to avenge their slaughter by three villains. His odyssey includes spiritual re-parenting at several stages, most notably by canny gun dealer Jonas Cord (a swell character part for Brian Keith). The supporting cast will have you saying, "He's in it, too!" at regular intervals (from costars Karl Malden and Arthur Kennedy down to such incidental interlopers as L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin). Since director Henry Hathaway and cameraman Lucien Ballard couldn't frame a bad shot if their lives depended on it, it's a relief that this movie is finally available in a widescreen format. --Richard T. Jameson

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Nevada Smith

This is one of my top two western movies that I have ever watched. I first watched it when I was in the Navy in the mid / late 60's. and had seen it several times since then. And was glad to finially fine it again so I could add it to my DVD collection

Steve McQueen

This is good Steve McQueen movie. Not well known and an early work of his but very good if you like old westerns

Another classic western

Actually based on a character and about a chapter or two in a Harold Robbins novel "The Carpetbaggers" Steve stole the whole character and made an entirely new movie with him. Very well done another timeless classic. Worth seeing if you haven't.

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Great movie

Great early Steve McQueen movie. I saw this at the theatre when I was very young and it is still one of my favorite. Great acting and supporting cast. If you are a fan of Steve, you need this one.

Solid revenge Western

Despite being curiously banned from British TV screens for many years in the wake of the entirely unconnected Hungerford massacre, Nevada Smith is a solid and petty lavishly mounted revenge western culled from the backstory of Alan Ladd's ageing cowboy star in The Carpetbaggers. With Steve McQueen heading an impressive cast (Karl Malden, Arthur Kennedy, Martin Landau, Brian Keith, Suzanne Pleshette, Janet Margolin, etc) you could almost see it as a last-gasp attempt to be the classic American Western as its narrative sends its hero from Texas to California via a chain gang in the Louisiana bayous. It could have been tighter and you have to question how merciful his final act is after putting that many holes in someone, but its an entertaining ride and the eternally under-appreciated Henry Hathaway makes it look particularly great in Scope. No extras, but at least the 2.35:1 widescreen transfer is good.

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