Catlow (1971)

Directed by

Sam Wanamaker

Genre

Western film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An outlaw named Jed Catlow tries to steal Confederate gold while staying one step ahead of a U.S. marshal who is an old friend. The film follows their cat-and-mouse game across the Old West with a lot of joking and sarcasm between them.

tongue-in-cheeksardoniclightheartedadventurousbreezycheekyclassic western mood

What happens

Catlow is a 1971 American Western film, based on a 1963 novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour. It stars Yul Brynner as Jed Catlow, a renegade outlaw determined to pull off a Confederate gold heist. It co-stars Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy. Nimoy mentioned this film in both of his autobiographies because it gave him a chance to break away from his role as Spock on Star Trek. He mentioned that the time he made the film was one of the happiest of his life, even though his part was rather brief. The film contains a lot of tongue-in-cheek and sardonic humor, especially between Brynner and Crenna's characters Catlow and Ben Cowan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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