The Long Riders
During the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, outlaws who terrorize the Midwestern United States. Due to an event, the groups of brothers go their separate ways, but they soon regroup for an ill-fated bank job in Northfield, Minn., that results in an epic chase.
5 February 1948, New York City, New York, USA
5 May 1951, New York City, New York, USA
28 October 1943, Springhill, Louisiana, USA
16 December 1949, USA
15 September 1946, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 November 1953, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
3 May 1948, Viroqua, Wisconsin, USA
8 October 1930, Kirksville, Missouri, USA
16 October 1934
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
15 March 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 October 1948, New York City, New York, USA
5 March 1923
18 September 1950, Kern, California, USA
7 December 1947, Savannah, Georgia, USA
14 April 1938, San Diego, California, USA
1 October 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
2 June 1941, Savannah, Georgia, USA
14 March 1946, Palo Alto, California, USA
8 August 1949, San Mateo, California, USA
10 November 1946, Evanston, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 March 1944, New York City, New York, USA
February 05, 2008
Sacrificing investigations into the mentality behind America's most feared band of outlaws, Hill plumps for an evocation of time and place. He does a magnificent job.
February 05, 2008
It is an action film, an engaging one, and covers old ground with a contemporary style which never feels out of place.
February 05, 2008
A superb, nitty-gritty retelling of the story of the James-Younger gang.
June 27, 2008
The casting problems aside, this is a fairly solid, but not particularly extraordinary film.
February 09, 2006
A beautiful, laconic and unsentimental film.
February 14, 2010
A Western Nirvana
May 04, 2012
The Long Riders isn't quite sure which way it wants to ride, but the action scenes and cinematography make up for any misdirection.
February 05, 2008
Walter Hill's first outright failure.
April 02, 2008
One of the more idiosyncratic James gang westerns but not necessarily one of the better ones.
February 05, 2008
What's ultimately missing is a definable point of view which would tie together the myriad events on display and fill in the blanks which Hill has imposed on the action by sapping it of emotional or historical meaning.
July 01, 2011
Hill's lean, mean approach never had a more appealing texture than it does here...
October 07, 2011
Hill is very much in the American grain, the inheritor of the Ford-Hawks-Walsh tradition of artful, understated action film making.
