The Appaloosa

1966

Action / Drama / Romance / Western

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 47% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 47% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 3838 3.8K

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Plot summary

A man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.

Director

Sidney J. Furie Photo
Sidney J. Furie

Top cast

John Saxon Photo
John Saxon as Chuy
Rafael Campos Photo
Rafael Campos as Paco
Argentina Brunetti Photo
Argentina Brunetti as Yaqui Woman
Larry D. Mann Photo
Larry D. Mann as Priest
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820.24 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 2
1.56 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rhinocerosfive-1 6 / 10

"If you holler once I'm gonna blow your arms off."

Reviewed by golfermj 5 / 10

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when you consider that this movie was released in 1966,in the midst of the Sergio Leone-Clint Eastwood western trilogy and the same year as the groundbreaking-action classic"The Professionals","The appaloosa" is a dated film.Sergio Leone and Richard Brooks were exceptionally good film makers and could tell a good story.Sidney J.Furie made top notch spy thrillers with Michael Caine in the Harry Palmer films,but Furie seemed to out of his league making a western."The Appaloosa"is a slow moving ponderous film with little excitement.the novel by Robert Macleod is superior. the first two or three chapters of the book take place at "the battle of adobe walls"-a real life incident that took place in 1874 in which a small group of buffalo hunters held off a large band of Indians.this entire sequence was not included in the film due to Marlon Brando refusing to be in a movie where his character was killing Indians.in addition,Brando did not like Indians being portrayed as nothing but savage killers.or at least, this is what i have read.one positive addition that the film has that the novel does not have is the arm wrestling contest between Brando and John Saxon -with an added-creepy danger to the contest.also in the film's favor- both Brando and Saxon are good.Brando is low key and brooding while Saxon hams it up-also Anjanette Comer is very lovely.the film deletes the Indian wife of Brando's character and the role of the town sheriff in the novel is reduced to one quick short mini scene.the novel is a rugged western with good action.the movie is not.they should have been more faithful to the book-it would have made a better movie.still, the movie is worth a look and has a fine music score and some nice photography in addition to some solid performances, but it lacks excitement.
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