Hombre (1967)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Martin Ritt

Escritores:

Elmore Leonard (novel)
Irving Ravetch (writer) ...
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Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 marzo 1967 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

Hombre means MAN... Paul Newman is HOMBRE!

Plot:

John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Plot Keywords:

Stagecoach | Lodging House | Apache | Inheritance | Betrayal

Premios:

1 win & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

One of the best westerns ever made

Reparto

Paul Newman	...	John Russell
Fredric March	...	Dr. Alex Favor
Richard Boone	...	Cicero Grimes
Diane Cilento	...	Jessie
Cameron Mitchell	...	Frank Braden
Barbara Rush	...	Audra Favor
Peter Lazer	...	Billy Lee Blake
Margaret Blye	...	Doris Blake
Martin Balsam	...	Henry Mendez
Skip Ward	...	Steve Early
Frank Silvera	...	Mexican bandit
David Canary	...	Lamar Dean
Val Avery	...	Delgado
Larry Ward	...	Soldier
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Linda Cordova	...	Mrs. Delgado (uncredited)
Pete Hernandez	...	Apache (uncredited)
Merrill C. Isbell	...	Apache (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Martin Ritt

Créditos del guión
Elmore Leonard		(novel)
Irving Ravetch		(writer) and
Harriet Frank Jr.		(writer)

Producida por
Irving Ravetch	....	producer
Martin Ritt	....	producer

Música original por
David Rose

Fotografía por
James Wong Howe		(director of photography)

Montaje por
Frank Bracht

Dirección artística
Jack Martin Smith
Robert Emmet Smith		(as Robert E. Smith)

Decorados
Raphael Bretton
Walter M. Scott

Diseño de vestuario por
Donfeld

Departamento de maquillaje
Margaret Donovan	....	hair stylist
Ben Nye	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Harry Caplan	....	unit production manager (as Harry A. Caplan)

Ayudante de dirección
William McGarry	....	assistant director
Christopher Seitz	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
John R. Carter	....	sound
David Dockendorf	....	sound

Especialistas
Terry Leonard	....	stunts (uncredited)
Danny Sands	....	stunts (uncredited)
George P. Wilbur	....	stunts (uncredited)

Departamento de Música
Jack Hayes	....	orchestrator
David Rose	....	conductor
Leo Shuken	....	orchestrator

Otros miembros del equipo
Meta Rebner	....	script supervisor

Compañías Productores

• Hombre Productions
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Distribuidores

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1967) (USA) (theatrical)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1970) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (19??) (USA) (DVD)
• CBS/Fox (19??) (USA) (VHS)
• CBS/Fox (19??) (USA) (laserdisc)
• Centfox (1967) (West Germany) (theatrical)

Duración:

111 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Iceland:L | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:Unrated | West Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bell Ranch, Santa Susana, California, USA

Compañía:

Hombre Productions

Trivialidades:

Filming on "Hombre" coincided with that year's Academy Awards. Co-star Martin Balsam was a Best Supporting Actor nominee for A Thousand Clowns (1965), and not having received permission to leave the set, Balsam sneaked off to attend the ceremony. He won the Oscar.

Errores:

Anacronismos: The shotgun shells Mendez carries are a modern red plastic case. Period shells were brass cased.

Citas:

Billy Lee Blake: [Notices Jessie standing by Braden's body after Russell kills him] Uh, Jessie; you want something to cover Braden up?
Jessie: [Shaking her head ruefully] No, just let him lie there.

One of the best westerns ever made

Outstanding direction, writing, acting, and cinematography make this film perhaps the best western ever made, and certainly outstanding in it's genre. The good guys aren't all that good, and the bad guys are despicable. The dialogue is from Elmore Leonard, and is some of the best dialogue ever written, western or not. Example: Early in the film Diane Cilento has retreated to the privacy of a shack to remove her petticoat because of the heat. Paul Newman is in the room, and watches her silently as she bears her legs. Then he says, "You'd better stop right there lady, or I'm gonna know all there is to know about you." Ms Cilento's character Jessie (a hard frontier woman who runs a boarding house and sleeps with the town sheriff) retorts, "You might have cleared your throat." Newman says, "I couldn't, my heart was in it." The minor part cast is also outstanding: Martin Balsam, Richard Boone, Cameron Mitchell, David Canary. I also mention the cinematographer, often overlooked, because it was James Wong Howe (Molly McGuires, This Property is Condemned, Hud, Fantasia) who was one of the greatest cinematographers that has ever lived.