| The Bravados | 
 enlarge | Director: Henry King
Actors: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 23631
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 98
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2227268D
UPC: 024543172673
EAN: 0024543172673
ASIN: B0007PALJS
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Release Date: May 24, 2005
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Nr
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During his Twentieth Century Fox contract years, Gregory Peck looked to veteran director Henry King as something of a father figure and gave two of his best performances--in Twelve O'Clock High (1949) and The Gunfighter (1950)--for him. The Bravados (1958) isn't in that league, but it's a surprisingly tough film from the flabby CinemaScope years when the studio, director, and star all seemed to be floundering. Peck plays Jim Douglass, a dark, haunted man who rides into a Southwest border town on the eve of a hanging. The bad men set for the drop (Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Lee Van Cleef, Henry Silva) are the same ones he's been pursuing for the rape and murder of his wife. Douglass isn't happy about leaving it to the law to carry out his vengeance--and so there's a certain bleak satisfaction when the quartet busts out of jail, and he becomes the best hope for hunting them down. Perversity wasn't King's long suit, so Philip Yordan's screenplay about a hero turning more sinister than the outlaws he's chasing never acquires the demonic power or ironic flair that an Anthony Mann, Fritz Lang, or Robert Aldrich might have lent it. Yet the very foursquareness of King's style and approach--and Peck's earnest efforts to fight through his accustomed stolidity to hit the necessary notes of desperation and finally shame--make for a fascination all their own. Joan Collins hovers handsomely on the periphery as an old friend ready to redeem Douglass, and Joe (Curly Joe-to-be) De Rita makes an uncredited appearance as the hangman. --Richard T. Jameson
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 BRAVADOS SHOCKING AND AMAZING! June 16, 2008
The Bravados is simply a movie that was a head of its time. This movie has one of the most shocking endings ever captured on film. You need to watch this great american film because it is worth every penny. If you like westerns and shocking endings this is it. This is the one you should go for.
It's presented in both wide or full screen versions.
Not what you would expect of a 1950s western picture November 14, 2007
This film deals pretty openly with subjects that were still sort of taboo in 1958 -- rape and revenge killings.
Briefly, the plot revolves around Peck's Jim Douglass role. He's a rancher who has been dogedly hunting down four very bad men who could've raped and killed his wife. He finds them in jail 100 miles away from his ranch ... Not to give too much away, but the movie turns into a 90 minute chase and morality play. Great acting from Peck, Stephen Boyd, Henry Silva, Lee Van Cleef and Albert Salmi (who was the "bad guy" in more 60s and 70s tv shows than are probably listed online).
What strikes me most of all, is that from looking at this film, you can see it clearly had an influence on Sergio Leone almost a decade later when he made his Western triology starring Clint Eastwood.
There's the lone gunman against the world theme, along with revenge killing (not really done all that much in westerns before) and almost directly taken from The Bravados is the watch-with-a-picture. Peck holds out a watch with a picture of his dead wife to, Lee Van Cleef (and the rest of the bad guys) as a sort of guilt weapon. In 1965's "For a Few Dollars More" Van Cleef plays very much the same type of role as Colonel Mortimer having chased a man who performed almost the same act on his family.
This film gets an A for production and script. It's a little hokey at the end with Peck talking to a priest, but at least the acting and scenery are interesting.
It's a good film. Well worth a Saturday afternoon viewing.
 A dour Western with a downbeat ending... November 10, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
"The Bravados" exposed a tragic violation of justice, and a confession of an error from a severe threatening widower (Gregory Peck) entirely blind in chasing four killers who, he believes, raped and murdered his wife... Peck is seen at one time the ruthless judge, jury and executioner...
The entertaining thing about the film is probably the manhunt of the accused men who escape from jail taking with them a female hostage Kathleen Gallant...
Gregory Peck's character as the blind seeker of justice is fit to be despised... With a downbeat climax this sour revenge Western remembered me the persistent Captain Ahab with his determination to finish with the killer whale, performed also by Peck...
Peck has continued to refine the identity of the avenging hero keeping his character alive through the good intervention of his heroic persona...
The four outlaws create a false impression in pretending indifference to misfortune...
"The Bravados" is a dour Western with a downbeat ending... The production is good, but the entertainment uneasy...
"Peck...Collins...Boyd...Salmi...King ~ The Bravados (1958)" August 16, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment present "THE BRAVADOS" (1958) (98 mins Color), under director Henry King , producer Herbert B. Swope, Jr., novel by Frank O'Rourke., screenwriter Philip Yordan, musical direction by Bernhard Kaun, music score by Lionel Newman . . . . .cast includes Gregory Peck (Jim Douglas), Joan Collins (Josefa Velarde), Stephen Boyd (Bill Zachary), Albert Salmi (Ed Taylor), Henry Silva (Lujan), Kathleen Gallant (Emma), Barry Coe (Tom), George Voskovec (Gus Steinmetz), Herbert Rudley (Sheriff Elroy Sanchez ), Lee Van Cleef (Alfonso Parral ), Andrew Duggan (Padre), Ken Scott (Primo), Gene Evans (Butler), Curly Joe DeRita (Mr. Simms), Robert Adler (Tony Mirabel). . . . . . . our story has a great script with a top notch veteran cast under the baton direction of Henry King, has Gregory Peck hot on the trail of four men who are outlaws Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva and Lee Van Cleef...Peck believes these men raped and murdered his wife...the scene changes inside a jail where the men are going to the gallows in the morning...the tables are turned when the outlaws escape and Peck is hot on their trail again with the towns blessing...a shocker and a real twist in the final scene not inclusive of your usual suspects. . . . .much of the success of this film is due to the direction of Henry King (born: 24th January 1886 in Christiansburg, Virginia - died: 29th June 1982 in Toluca Lake, California) was an American film director...before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theaters, and first started to take small film roles in 1912...King directed for the first time in 1915, and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and 1930s...King was nominated for the best director Oscar twice, but did not win on either occasion...his films include "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1938), "Jesse James" (1939), "The Black Swan" 1942), In 1944, he was awarded the first ever Golden Globe Award award for best director for his film "The Song of Bernadette", based on the novel of the same name by Franz Werfel..."Captain from Castile" (1947), "Prince of Foxes" (1949), "12 O'Clock High" (1949), "The Gunfighter" (1950), "David and Bathsheba" (1951), "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1952), "King of the Khyber Rifles" (1953), "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955), "Carousel" (1956), "The Sun Also Rises" (1957), "Tender is the Night" (1962)...Henry King was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars every year, King directed over 100 films in his career.
Specal footnote, actor Gregory Peck was not only a wonderful actor but a great human being, of his own movies, "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962) is Peck's favourite, his character from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), Atticus Finch, was voted the greatest screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute in May 2003, only two weeks before his death (beating out Indiana Jones, who was placed second, and James Bond who came third)...Brock Peters delivered his eulogy on the day of his funeral and burial, June 16, 2003. In To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Peters played Tom Robinson, the black man accused of raping a white girl that Atticus Finch (Peck's character) defended in court....on his 1962 Oscar-winning role in "To Kill A Mockingbird", "I put everything I had into it, all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children, and my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity."
SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Gregory Peck (aka: Eldred Gregory Peck)
Date of birth: 4/05/1916 - La Jolla, California, USA
Date of death: 6/12/2003 - Los Angeles, California
2. Joan Collins (aka: Joan Henrietta Collins)
Date of birth: 23 May 1933 - London, England, UK
Date of Death: Still Living
3. Stephen Boyd (aka: William Millar)
Date of birth: 4 July 1931 - Glengormley, Northern Ireland, UK
Date of death: 2 June 1977 - Northridge, California
4. Henry King (Director)
Date of birth: 24 January 1886 - Christiansburg, Virginia
Date of death: 29 June 1982 - Toluca Lake, California
Want to thank 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for releasing "Bravados" (1958), the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage era of the '40s & '50s...order your copy now from Amazon or 20th Century Fox Entertainment where there are plenty of copies available, stay tuned once again for top notch wonderful character actors of the cinema brought back so many wonderful memories of the times when film makers cared about you who purchased a ticket and came back for more...just the way we like 'em.
Total Time: 98 mins on DVD ~ 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment #2227268 ~ (5/24/2005)
Western that Explores a Moral Issue July 28, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A good story with a surprise twist at the end. A must for any Gregory Peck fan; some of the other acting is a little uneven. The moral issue of playing both judge and jury as not really satisfactorily resolved, but a decent attempt is made. Overall a good story.
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