"Andrei Rublev", for Western audiences, at least had the benefit of subtitles. What I can say is that I can't imagine how on earth United Artists could ever have imagined they had a viable commercial project on their hands in this unlovely, feel-bad, incomprehensible Western - what mass-market audience did they ever imagine would flock to see a five-hour epic more akin to "Andrei Rublev" than to "Stagecoach"? I'm honestly not clear whether this film is being pretentious or plain incompetent, realistic or gratuitously nasty, arty or just badly-exposed and obscured by dust or smoke. ![]() Reviewed by Igenlode Wordsmith 3 / 10 Wilfully obscure James Averill's heart is with the immigrants, but he doesn't think they have a chance of winning the inevitable war. Cavalry, set out to rid the state of the immigrants. They assemble an army of guns-for-hire and, backed by the U.S. The cattlemen's association, the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, effectively declares war on the immigrant farmers and gets the state government's blessing. ![]() The wealthy cattle owners view the immigrant farmers as a nuisance and hindrance to them enlarging their own land. In 1890 Wyoming, James Averill is the Sheriff of Johnson County, which is largely inhabited by foreign immigrants.
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