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Tarfumes.com - Rough Night in Jericho
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Dean Martin, Jean Simmons, George Peppard, John McIntire, Slim Pickens
Directed By: Arnold Laven
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783201832
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0783201834
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 1993-11-24
Running Time: 104
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1967-08-01
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Summary: EXCELLENT LATE VINTAGE WESTERN
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This is a very enjoyable movie for western buffs of the mid-1960's before Hollywood forgot 'how' to make good westerns.
The cast is sensational comprised of many seasoned and well known actors with one of my all time favorites, George Peppard, turning in a strong performance. George has the role of a man forced to take a hand literally in a battle for a town, one with which he tried to avoid. But Dean Martin plays such an unscrupulous and moral bankrupt part that ole Dino eventually brings the roof down onto his head through Peppard, whereby Dino loses everything.
This is a good way to wile away a few hours while being entertained, there just are no bad actors in this unusual and fine western. Great fun.
Semper Fi.
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Summary: a forgotten, but good little western
Comment: Dean Martin plays the bad guy in this one, and he does a good job being ruthless, cold and completely without conscience. George Peppard plays the anti-heroic hero, typical of westerns (and many other genres) in the mid 1960's. Jean Simmons is great as the female lead, stil very lovely at 40-ish, playing a tough but vulnerable woman with guts and determination. JOhn McIntyre is great as the aging former sherriff who can still teach the young guys a few lessons.
The plot is fairly simple, quite unrealistic and certainly nothing new for a western -- the bad guy came to town as a lawman, slowly bullying his way into 51% ownership of every business in town. One business owner (Simmons) is still holding out, refusing to be intimidated into selling out. She is trying to run a stage coach line - with only one stage coach - and has brought in McIntrye and his protege Peppard for help. They have become part owners in the business. After an initial reluctance to get involved, and a few cat and mouse games with Dino, Peppard finally throws his lot in with Simmons in a big way. They fall in love during the proceedings, of course. The final showdown between Dean and his henchmen and Peppard's crew is an old fashioned shoot-em-up, blow-em-up melee.
Pretty violent by 1967 standards, though mild compared to Peckinpah's contemporaneous work. The lynching scene at the beginning has the power to disturb, and Dean smacks Jean Simmons around in another scene.
Very little humor, except a few of McIntyre's saltier remarks, and one scene in which Simmons and Pppard try to drink one another under the table.
Peppard and Simmons make a good romantic pairing, considering the fact that she was several years older than him.
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Summary: Violent and rough
Comment: I saw this one when it came out. I remember at the time that it savaged by the critics as too violent. I saw it again recently on tv and I remembered that comment and laugh. You see this came out in the middle of the Italian westerns. The Italian westerns were beginnig to turn to violence to keep the audience that they had started with the Dollar movies. American westerns were just trying to survive, so they looked to the Italians for help. JERICHO was more violent than what US westerns were but not violent enough for the Italian western audience. This caused this one to die which was a shame. JERICHO had good blood lines. The story was based on a AL Cody novel and had very "cool" actors in Martin and Peppard. The story is tight and the characters are well drawn and the violence...well later American movies and American audiences took to violence with black ganster moview and biker movies. God for bid that someone try to change the American western. JERICHO today is a very good western and one must keep in mind the time in which it was made when they watch it. For you see it is also a time capsule of American movie history too.
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Summary: dino goes bad out west and shows he can still act
Comment: can you believe it , dean is the BAD guy in this film and he's good at it. i always liked this film and was happy to find it on dvd and in widescreen.not for the whole family but a good adult western.check it out and you won't be sorry.
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Summary: Martin's Best Western
Comment: Dino made a number of Westerns, everything from the comic Western Pardners with Jerry Lewis, to a whodunit Western, Five Card Stud with Robert Mitchum, to playing an alcoholic lawman in Rio Bravo. But Martin had a field day playing the villain in Rough Night In Jericho, a hard-bitten, violent movie.
Martin plays Jason Flood, an ex-lawman who has taken over the town of Jericho. George Peppard and John McIntire plays former lawmen as well, who have been contracted to provide a stage to Jean Simmons, who Flood is trying to force into going into business with him. Flood is also an ex of Simmons, which makes him even more determined not to let Peppard and McIntyre help her out.
Things get increasingly violent until the final showdown, where the blood flows freely. Everyone is good in this film, fro mthe three leads to McIntire, who was always superb, particularly in Westerns, as well as the great Slim Pickens as one of Flood's henchmen. Rough Night In Jericho is overlooked, but it's very entertaining.
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