Stars: Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, David Patrick Kelly, Alexandra Powers, Karina Lombard

Director: Walter Hill

Summary: Jericho, Texas, 1931, is a lawless place with rival gangs replacing civil law... until one day a mysterious stranger arrives in town. All hell is let loose as he draws his gun and moves from one gang to the other betraying both sides until only one man can be left standing...

In a dusty, Prohibition-era Texas border town, a lone-wolf hit-man richochets between rival mobs, pinning his allegiance to whomever offers more money for his services. But when he sticks his neck out to help a woman, he ends up risking more than money--he risks developing a conscience. Hill patterned his film after Kurosawa's legendary 1961 "Yojimbo."

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Best known for making movies about men and violence, director Walter Hill scored a misfire with this ambitious but ultimately dreary remake of Akira Kurosawa's samurai classic Yojimbo. The story's essentially the same but the setting has been switched to a dusty, almost ghostly Texas town in the 1930s, where two rival Chicago gangs are locked in an uneasy truce. Bruce Willis plays the lone drifter who allies himself with both gangs to his own advantage, working both sides against each other according to his own hidden agenda. The violence escalates to a bloody climax, of course, with Christopher Walken, David Patrick Kelly and Michael Imperioli as trigger-happy lieutenants in a lonely, desolate war. Fans of gangster movies will want to see this, and, if nothing else, Hill has brought his polished style to a vaguely mythic story. It's far from being a classic, however, and although its action is at times masterfully choreographed, the movie's humourless attitude is unexpectedly oppressive. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	The Making Of Featurette, Trailer
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1996
Release Date:	September 27, 1999
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	E D V 9011
Keywords:	Man, Last, Action, General, Adventure, Standing
Genre:	Action/Adventure