The Long Riders
November 17, 2011
Director Walter Hill’s superior movie The Long Riders (1980) was an accurate depiction of the James gang’s Northfield, Minnesota bank raid, starring Stacy Keach as Frank, and his brother James (looking like William S. Hart) playing Jesse. It’s told in gory, post-Peckinpah fashion, complete with slow-motion gunplay, whizzing bullet sound effects and a twanging Ry Cooder score. It’s a fantastic film and one of the best westerns ever made.
