The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Western

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 10169 10.2K

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Plot summary

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.

Director

John Huston Photo
John Huston

Top cast

Roy Jenson Photo
Roy Jenson as Outlaw
Neil Summers Photo
Neil Summers as Snake River Rufus Krile
Paul Newman Photo
Paul Newman as Judge Roy Bean
Howard Morton Photo
Howard Morton as Photographist
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1.01 GB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 2
1.95 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mark-rojinsky 7 / 10

Quirky quixotic revisionist western from '71-72

An odd, uneven and off-beat western from '71-72 that most downbeat of hippie years - incidentally coinciding with the year the modern-western, 'Pocket Money' also starring good-looking blue-eyed American superstar, Paul Newman was released. Bleak but playful and full of quirky scenarios and cameos with a cine-literate script although without the surrealism of the Italian western genre. The night-time scene when Bean travels to the theatre by train dressed in a top-hat and tails and is subsequently mugged is lyrical and timeless; while the scene when Bean accompanied by his Mexican wife Maria-Elena, played by Victoria Principal surveys the mellow golden-brown Arizonan prairieland vistas has a compelling purity of vision. The early-'70s were pioneering years and stood often for intelligent cinema. It reveals just how multi-faceted Newman's acting style was.
Reviewed by zutterjp48 8 / 10

A very good story.

I enjoyed very much this tale of the judge Roy Bean.A story about law and justice near the Pecos River: a former outlaw who decides to build a town where the bads guys and the outlaws will be punished.But also a romantic man who has fallen in love with an actress Lily Langtry. who is writing her letters and once tried to meet her in San Antonio. A great Paul Newman who plays very well the role of Judge Roy Bean and in this cast we have goods actors such as Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty,Matt Clark , Jim Burk and Jim McKinney, and good actresses such as Victoria Principal, Jacqueline Bisset and Ava Gardner.
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