The Long Riders (1980)

Directed by

Walter Hill

Genre

Western film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 287 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film tells the story of the James Younger Gang, a group of outlaws in the American West. It focuses on their lives and crimes, with the actors playing the roles being actual brothers in real life.

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What happens

The Long Riders is a 1980 American biographical Western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and features an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder, for which he won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. The film was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. The film is notable for having cast four sets of actual brothers to play the four sets of brothers in the James–Younger Gang. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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