Comes a Horseman [Blu-ray]

Director: Alan J. Pakula Alan J. Pakula

Overview

Old man Ewing (Jason Robards) owns a ranch right next to the ranch of Ella (Jane Fonda). This is a source of two problems: Ewing wants to gobble up most of the land around the two ranches and also wants Ella's ranch; secondly, when Ella was too young to know better, she went to bed with the man, which, many years later, she considers to have been a grievous error on her part. A third problem arises when oil companies begin pressuring both of them to allow drilling on their land, and Ewing won't allow it -- on his or anyone else's land. Before long, war-veteran Frank (James Caan) enters Ella's life and helps her fight to save her land and her sanity, with added assistance from Dodger (Richard Farnsworth), an old local who knows the score.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/13/2022
UPC:	0850035985359
Original Release:	1978
Rating:	PG
Source:	Sandpiper Pictures
Language:	English
Time:	1:59:00
Sales rank:	40,327

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

James Caan	Frank 'Buck' Athearn
Jane Fonda	Ella Connors
Jason Robards	Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
George Grizzard	Neil Atkinson
Richard Farnsworth	Dodger
Mark Harmon	Billy Joe Meynert
Macon McCalman	Hoverton
Basil Hoffman	George Bascomb
James Kline	Ralph Cole
James Keach	Emil Kroegh
Cliff Pellow	Cattle Buyer,Cattle Buyer
Jason Robards Sr.	Jacob «J.W.» Ewing
Jimmy Davis	Julie Blocker
Michael Small	Composer

Technical Credits

Dennis Lynton Clark

Alan J. Pakula	Director
Dennis Lynton Clark	Screenwriter
Robert Chartoff	Executive Producer
Gene Kirkwood	Producer
Dan Paulson	Producer
Walter Scott	Stunts
Irwin Winkler	Executive Producer,Producer
Bill Becker	Sound Effects
Christopher Newman	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Kay Rose	Sound Effects
Phil Cory	Special Effects
William H. Burton	Stunts,Stunts
Ted White	Stunts
Danny Costa	Stunts
R.L. Tolbert	Stunts
H.P. Evetts	Stunts
James Sheppard	Stunts
Donna Garrett	Stunts
Sammy Thurman	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Comes a Horseman won Richard Farnsworth his first Oscar nomination, but the veteran stunt man-turned-thespian provides only one of the fine performances in this grave, level-headed Alan J. Pakula effort. James Caan's insouciant veteran/cowboy and Jason Robards' winner-takes-all villain are equally solid. Jane Fonda, meanwhile, leverages a severe Electra complex and a lot of dusty cattle rancher costumes into a very different sort of showcase role than the one that earned her an Oscar in Pakula's masterpiece Klute. The popular director keeps the focus on his actors, but screenwriter Dennis Lynton Clark and cinematographer Gordon Willis take great pains to demonstrate both the hardships of the modern rancher and the dusky beauty that continues to draw independent-minded individuals to such a life. This is mostly a quiet film, full of pervasive, unglamorous challenges and occasional but subtle triumphs. It isn't a blockbuster and doesn't try to be, but its measured script is full of well-observed moments and ragged charm.

All Movie Guide - Brian J. Dillard