Saturday, January 02, 2021

Will Penny

Will Penny is a 1968 Western starring Charlton Heston and Donald Pleasance. Slim Pickens, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern, and William Schallert are here, too.  Part of it takes place during the Christmas season.

You can watch it on Paramount+

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Roger Ebert calls it "the best cowboy movie since "Hud"" and concludes,

The admirable thing about the movie is its devotion to real life. These are the kind of people, we feel, who must really have inhabited the West: common, direct, painfully shy in social situations and very honest. "Shane" was a cowboy movie of this type. So was "Hud," although in a modern setting. And Kirk Douglas' unrecognized masterpiece, "Lonely Are the Brave," was in the same class.
Rotten Tomatoes has a critics consensus rating of 85%.

15 comments:

  1. This was Lee Major's first film roll. At the time, he was playing Heath on "The Big Valley"

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    1. He won over some good competition for the Heath role.

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  2. ...Charlton Heston went off the deep end with the NRA!

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  3. I know this one. Wow. I like it too. What a great cast it had. Happy Saturday!

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    1. It was new to me, but I'm glad I found it :)

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  4. I know I have seen this long ago and remember it being good so I might have to watch this again. :)

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    1. Yes, it was a sad one. But the bad guys got theirs anyways. ;)

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  5. I actually watched this. Not sure I'm a fan of westerns, but it was palpable.

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    1. "Westerns" covers such a broad range of type of movie...

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  6. You won't believe this but this is a Western I actually saw and liked! Have a great weekend, Valerie

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    1. It's good to give things we don't usually like a chance every once in a while :)

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  7. We love westerns in this house and Will Penny in one of our favorites.

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