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4.0 out of 5 stars
Red Rock is rock solid, January 23, 2002
This review is from: Warden of Red Rock [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is a good solid movie with occasional 'gems in the rock', particularly the development of the loving relationship that slowly builds up between warden John Flinders ( James Caan) and the widow McVale (Rachel Ticotin), whose first husband had gone to the gallows, for murder.
The setting is Arizona Territory 1910, as the West was 'a changin,' and there is even an early scene of a motor car in this otherwise conventional western.
If you want sex scenes and plenty of foul language, then don't bother with this movie. However if you want to watch a good western with fine acting by Caan and Ticotin in particular, then this is worthwhile. Personally, I think the slow inter personal development between warden and widow makes this flick far more interesting than watching some mad bedroom romp and is probably far truer to the the way the sexes related to each other in that early period of the 20th century.
The 'baddy,'Mike Sullivan, is played by David Carradine, who looks remarkably like Jason Robards, and unlike his old mate, the warden, is a thoroughly unredeemed villain.
Fine supporting performances come from Brian Dennehy, and the child actress, Gisela Sanchez, who convincingly looks like her screen mother.
This film provides good family viewing with, some nice horse flesh a few shoot-outs-well it wouldn't be a western without those would it?
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Very nice western story, May 12, 2010
This review is from: Warden of Red Rock [VHS] (VHS Tape)
James Caan does a great job as does David Carradine. Great moral story set in the west. Carradine does a great job as a really bad guy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great movie, January 15, 2012
This review is from: Warden of Red Rock [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is a very good movie that any family could watch. If you get tired of all the others they have now, this wwould be a nice story line to have. That is why I got it to watch more good movies.
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