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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543172673
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 32814
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Editorial Review:
Description:
Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) rides into town the night before the hanging of four outlaws. He's been on their trail, believing they raped and killed his wife. But hours before the execution, the four escape, taking a beautiful young woman hostage. Now it
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During his Twentieth Century Fox contract years, Gregory Peck looked to veteran director Henry King as something of a father figure and gave two of his best performances--in Twelve O'Clock High (1949) and The Gunfighter (1950)--for him. The Bravados (1958) isn't in that league, but it's a surprisingly tough film from the flabby CinemaScope years when the studio, director, and star all seemed to be floundering.
Peck plays Jim Douglass, a dark, haunted man who rides into a Southwest border town on the eve of a hanging. The bad men set for the drop (Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Lee Van Cleef, Henry Silva) are the same ones he's been pursuing for the rape and murder of his wife. Douglass isn't happy about leaving it to the law to carry out his vengeance--and so there's a certain bleak satisfaction when the quartet busts out of jail, and he becomes the best hope for hunting them down.
Perversity wasn't King's long suit, so Philip Yordan's screenplay about a hero turning more sinister than the outlaws he's chasing never acquires the demonic power or ironic flair that an Anthony Mann, Fritz Lang, or Robert Aldrich might have lent it. Yet the very foursquareness of King's style and approach--and Peck's earnest efforts to fight through his accustomed stolidity to hit the necessary notes of desperation and finally shame--make for a fascination all their own. Joan Collins hovers handsomely on the periphery as an old friend ready to redeem Douglass, and Joe (Curly Joe-to-be) De Rita makes an uncredited appearance as the hangman. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - BRAVADOS SHOCKING AND AMAZING!
The Bravados is simply a movie that was a head of its time. This movie has one of the most shocking endings ever captured on film. You need to watch this great american film because it is worth every penny. If you like westerns and shocking endings this is it. This is the one you should go for.
It's presented in both wide or full screen versions.
Rating: - Not what you would expect of a 1950s western picture
This film deals pretty openly with subjects that were still sort of taboo in 1958 -- rape and revenge killings.
Briefly, the plot revolves around Peck's Jim Douglass role. He's a rancher who has been dogedly hunting down four very bad men who could've raped and killed his wife. He finds them in jail 100 miles away from his ranch ... Not to give too much away, but the movie turns into a 90 minute chase and morality play. Great acting from Peck, Stephen Boyd, Henry Silva, Lee Van Cleef ... Read More
Rating:  - A dour Western with a downbeat ending...
"The Bravados" exposed a tragic violation of justice, and a confession of an error from a severe threatening widower (Gregory Peck) entirely blind in chasing four killers who, he believes, raped and murdered his wife... Peck is seen at one time the ruthless judge, jury and executioner...
The entertaining thing about the film is probably the manhunt of the accused men who escape from jail taking with them a female hostage Kathleen Gallant...
Gregory Peck's character as the ... Read More
Rating: - "Peck...Collins...Boyd...Salmi...King ~ The Bravados (1958)"
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment present "THE BRAVADOS" (1958) (98 mins Color), under director Henry King , producer Herbert B. Swope, Jr., novel by Frank O'Rourke., screenwriter Philip Yordan, musical direction by Bernhard Kaun, music score by Lionel Newman . . . . .cast includes Gregory Peck (Jim Douglas), Joan Collins (Josefa Velarde), Stephen Boyd (Bill Zachary), Albert Salmi (Ed Taylor), Henry Silva (Lujan), Kathleen Gallant (Emma), Barry Coe (Tom), George Voskovec (Gus Steinmetz), Herbert ... Read More
Rating: - Western that Explores a Moral Issue
A good story with a surprise twist at the end. A must for any Gregory Peck fan; some of the other acting is a little uneven. The moral issue of playing both judge and jury as not really satisfactorily resolved, but a decent attempt is made. Overall a good story.
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