The Long Riders (1980)

99 min · Drama, Late Western, Western, Western film, biographical film

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Directors

Walter Hill

Cast

David Carradine, Robert Carradine, James Keach, Stacy Keach, Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid, Keith Carradine, Kevin Brophy

The story

During the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, who terrorize the Midwestern United States. The band of robbers is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger, along with several of their brothers. After getting antsy during a bank robbery, Ed Miller opens fire and kills the clerk, resulting in a shootout where Jesse is wounded.

Catalogue themes and tags

1870s, 19th Century, Accomplice, Bankeinbruch, Brother, Brother Brother Relationship, Bullet Wound, Crime Syndicate, Detective, Distrust, Eisenbahnräuber, Enquiry, Flüchtige Verbrecher, Gewalt, Grausamkeit, Grossfahndung, Gunfight, Horseman, Kampf um Existens, Kriminalfälle, Leader, Outlaw, Pistole, Police, Private Detective, Prosecution, Refusal, Reiten, Rifle, Shootout, Südstaaten, Untergang, Verbrecherbande, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, cowboy, surrender, Action/Adventure, Western

Genres

Drama, Late Western, Western, Western film, biographical film

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