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Comes a Horseman (1978)

PG 10/25/1978 Western, Drama, Romance 1h 58m
60%
User
Score
6.3/10
67%
41/100

She was as strong as the land for which she fought. And as vulnerable.

Overview

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.

Alan J. Pakula

Director

Dennis Lynton Clark

Writer

Top Billed Cast

James Caan

James Caan

Frank 'Buck' Athearn

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda

Ella Connors

Jason Robards

Jason Robards

Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

George Grizzard

George Grizzard

Neil Atkinson

Richard Farnsworth

Richard Farnsworth

Dodger

Mark Harmon

Mark Harmon

Billy Joe Meynert

Macon McCalman

Macon McCalman

Virgil Hoverton

Basil Hoffman

Basil Hoffman

George Bascomb

James Keach

James Keach

Emil Kroegh

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Media

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on May 9, 2014

Horsewoman. Surely?


Comes a Horseman is directed by Alan J. Pakula and written by Dennis Lynton Clark. It stars Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards and Richard Farnsworth. Music is by Michael Small and cinematography by Gordon Willis.

It seems the ideas and willing behind Comes a Horseman are made of sturdy stuff, you sense that the makers wanted to make a reflective post-modern Western set in post World War II times. Tonally they get it mostly right, it is very sombre, both in characterisations and the changing of the times thematic beat. Plot is hardly thrilling as Robards' land baron plots to oust Fonda and Caan out of their respective homesteads in readiness for the oil company to come destroy the magnificent landscape.

Ella Connors (Fonda) is a feisty but vulnerable wom...

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