Lee Marvin and Jack Palance were known for playing villains in westerns.
Palance was the baddie in Shane. Marvin won an Oscar for his dual role as a grizzled drunk and the villain in Cat Balou. Palance would also win an Oscar later in life playing a grizzled cowboy in the modern City Slickers.
In Monte Walsh both play good guys in a changing landscape. The era of the cowpoke are coming to an end. Chet (Jack Palance) calls it a day, marries a widow and runs a general store. Monte (Lee Marvin) continues trying to find work on a ranch and even toys taking part in a rodeo show.
Danger arrives when Chet is confronted by Shorty, a cowboy wanted for rustling and later for shooting a lawman dead. It is up to Monte Walsh to look for revenge.
In the 1970s there were a slew of westerns looking at cowboys as a dying breed. An era coming to an end when less westerns were being made by Hollywood.
Monte Walsh is a melancholy contemplative western. Its big selling point are the actors. Palance is excellent and makes you think why he was not given such character parts more often. There is Jim Davis who would later become famous as Jock Ewing in Dallas.
Palance was the baddie in Shane. Marvin won an Oscar for his dual role as a grizzled drunk and the villain in Cat Balou. Palance would also win an Oscar later in life playing a grizzled cowboy in the modern City Slickers.
In Monte Walsh both play good guys in a changing landscape. The era of the cowpoke are coming to an end. Chet (Jack Palance) calls it a day, marries a widow and runs a general store. Monte (Lee Marvin) continues trying to find work on a ranch and even toys taking part in a rodeo show.
Danger arrives when Chet is confronted by Shorty, a cowboy wanted for rustling and later for shooting a lawman dead. It is up to Monte Walsh to look for revenge.
In the 1970s there were a slew of westerns looking at cowboys as a dying breed. An era coming to an end when less westerns were being made by Hollywood.
Monte Walsh is a melancholy contemplative western. Its big selling point are the actors. Palance is excellent and makes you think why he was not given such character parts more often. There is Jim Davis who would later become famous as Jock Ewing in Dallas.