
In a section of his book Genre and Contemporary Hollywood, Steve Neale identifies several distinct trends or “cycles” in the Western as it developed after what is seen as its golden, Fordian age (from the dime store classicism of Stagecoach through to the psychological acuity of The Searchers and on to the revisionist amends making of Cheyenne Autumn ) (1). Teaming up with his crafty friend Leonard, they set about trying to buy and ferry their cows across country, but this proves easier said than done. Brown Phot: Laszlo Kovacs Ed: Bob Wyman Art Dir: Tambi Larsen Mus: Alex NorthĬast: Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Wayne Rogers, Hector Elizondo, Christine Belford, Richard Farnsworth, Terrence Malick (uncredited)ĭown on his luck, behind on his alimony and bank payments, cowboy Jim Kane agrees to bring back a herd of cattle from Mexico for a crooked rodeo supplier.

Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: National General Pictures Prod: John Foreman Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Scr: John Gay, Terrence Malick, from the novel Jim Kane by J.
