The Lonely Man (1957)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.0/10   

Director:

Henry Levin

Escritores:

Harry Essex (writer) and
Robert Smith (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 agosto 1957 (Sweden)

Género:

Del Oeste

Plot:

Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him.

Plot Keywords:

Father Son Relationship | Ambush | Blacksmith | Oedipal Complex | Suicide

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Not an effective western about a father-son relationship

Reparto

Jack Palance	...	Jacob Wade
Anthony Perkins	...	Riley Wade
Neville Brand	...	King Fisher
Robert Middleton	...	Ben Ryerson
Elisha Cook Jr.	...	Willie (as Elisha Cook)
Claude Akins	...	Blackburn (as Claude A. Akins)
Lee Van Cleef	...	Faro
Harry Shannon	...	Dr. Fisher
James Bell	...	Judge Hart
Adam Williams	...	Lon
Denver Pyle	...	Brad, Red Bluff Sheriff
John Doucette	...	Sundown Whipple
Paul Newlan	...	Fence Green (as Paul 'Tiny' Newlan)
Elaine Aiken	...	Ada Marshall
Tennessee Ernie Ford	...	Singer (voice)

También conocida como:

Un hombre solitario (Spain) [es]

Duración:

88 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Citas:

Jacob Wade: Where ya goin'?
Jacob Wade: Feed myself.
Jacob Wade: Man feeds his horse first.
Riley Wade: Well, I guess I got a lot to learn... not from you.

Banda de Sonido:

The Lonely Man

Not an effective western about a father-son relationship

It is not clear just what the creators of this film had in mind. It does have some worthwhile sequences of the actors riding on horse back chasing wild horses. What that had to do with the rest of the film is not at all clear.

The relation between the son (played oddly by Tony Perkins (Psycho)) and the former lover of his father (the father is decently acted by Jack Palance) was a film disaster. Obviously the creators wanted to go in the direction of a romantic triangle (younger woman falls for older man's son) but the attraction is completely nonsensical because the son is sullen, rude, and distinctly un-heroic throughout the whole film. No woman tough enough to live on her own in an isolated mountain ranch would fall for such a useless man.

The end scene is also absurd as the son helps his dying father shoot the bad guy dead in what has to be the stupidest possible fashion. This is NOT one of the better westerns filmed in the 1950s.

I will say one thing for it, those actors sure could ride horses. I wonder where it was filmed? Wyoming?