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Price: $361.00 as of 11/25/2009 09:15 EST details
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089859822926
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Vci Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Vci Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Vci Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Running Time: 82 minutes
Studio: Vci Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1967
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The Shooting, perhaps the most famous Western hardly anybody ever saw, takes deadpan survey of the fallout from a casual atrocity, or perhaps only a ludicrous accident, in a nameless town. We never see the atrocity/accident, or even the town. Word simply reaches a prospector's camp, a wood-and-canvas pimple on the blankness of the wasteland, that someone "rode down a man and a little person... maybe a child." Was the someone Willett Gashade's brother Coin, who has gone missing? Was it Leland Drum, Coin's companion, who gets shot from ambush at his fireside--perhaps by an unknown avenger, perhaps by Coin? The death of Drum explains the film's title, but there's a long list of things we never know in The Shooting, and most (all?) of the characters in the movie never know them either. Still, the small, relentlessly enigmatic cast of characters gets into motion and keeps moving--chasing something, running from something, headed for somewhere that may turn out to be nowhere, or deep inside themselves.
Monte Hellman made The Shooting (and a second movie, Ride in the Whirlwind) during one brief trip into the desert, anonymously financed by Roger Corman, in the summer of 1966. His material was a script by Adrien Joyce (later of Five Easy Pieces fame), the patient camera of Gregory Sandor, and the faces, voices, and brazenly modern presences of Warren Oates (Gashade), Jack Nicholson (a white-collar killer), and Millie Perkins (a pinched Medusa, freckled with trail dirt, bitchy light years from Anne Frank). Over the intervening decades the Beckettian movie has been sporadically available only on late-night TV or via scrappy 16-millimeter prints at film societies. That now triumphantly changes with this crisp, color-saturated DVD release, whose modest letterboxing eloquently enhances the unsettling power of Hellman's compositions and eerie long takes. --Richard T. Jameson
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This may well be one of the STUPIDEST movies I've ever seen. Veteran actor Warren Oates tries valiently to save it, but he really is swimming against a cross-current of abysmal fellow-actors, unbelievable unsympathetic characters, inchoherant writing (I would never refer to this stuff as a "script") and the poorest sound quality I can ever remember. I kept watching, hoping something - anything - interesting might happen at some point. No soap. My biggest disapointment was Will Hutchins. I was a big ... Read More
Rating: -
whats the deal with the price on this vid??
did they only make a limited amount of these?
id like to know whats the deal with asking so much for a dvd. youd think thered be a ton of them ripped and tossed around the net.
Rating:  -
THE SHOOTING (1966): Willet Gashade (Warren Oates) and his dimwitted friend Coley (Will Hutchins) are in a state of growing paranoia after their partner is inexplicably shot to death by an unseen assassin at their small mining camp. The murder may have been in retaliation for the accidental trampling death of "a little person" in town, ostensibly by Gashade's brother, who had left camp in a great hurry immediately prior to the shooting. The next morning, while the two remain confused and suspicious ... Read More
Rating:  -
Not sure what to make of this film. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
Summary:
While Willett Gashade (Warren Oates) was gone for supplies for his mining operation (very small mining operation of only a couple of people in the middle of the desert) his brother and one of their friends got into some trouble in town. They both return to the camp but Willet's brother flees the camp and the friend is gunned down in the middle camp. Another friend, Coley Boyard (Will Hutchins), sees what happens, ... Read More
Rating:  -
In the spring of 1965, Roger Corman, the king of profitable, low budget movies, helped produce (without credit) two amazing films that have achieved legendary cult status. Now, thanks to VCI Home Video, Monte Hellman's "THE SHOOTING" and "RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND" are available on DVD in pristine, widescreen transfers. The films are subtly interconected.
Both films star a then unknown Jack Nicholson and super starlet Millie Perkins and were shot simultaneously on location in Utah for the modest amount ... Read More
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