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Summary: Another McQueen Classic
Review: Nevada Smith is up there with The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven as Steve McQueen's best roles. In this western, McQueen plays Max Sands, a young man bent on revenge of the three men who brutally killed his parents. The three villains are played to perfection by Karl Malden, Martin Landau, and Arthur Kennedy. Really this movie is three or four separate stories brought together by Max's revenge. Beautiful scenery throughout ranging from the mountains of the Northwest to the swamps of Louisiana with a good musical score to back up the story. Brian Keith is exceptional in his role as McQueen's mentor. This is classic McQueen. The anger he feels for these three men is obvious as he chases them around the country, even working alongside them so that he can be around in case he gets a chance to exact his revenge. The DVD does not offer any extras besides the widescreen presentation, but the movie looks better than it ever did before. A truly great western with both great characters and an excellent storyline.
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Summary: Mcqueen's Best Western Film
Review: Steve Mcqueen is excellent in this well done western revenge thriller Nevada Smith, a young half breed man seeks revenge agaisnt a lethal gang who murdered his parents. Along the way Smith learns proper gun handeling technicqes and as he draws closer to his prey he relazies that revenge isn't all what it seems. Very well played story about revenge and the conseqeunces that goes along with it and the lonliness that transpires from being consumed from the hate. A Western that also looks at the rights of indians not often seen in Westerns. Steve Mcqueen pulled off a very belivable, and powerful performence.
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Summary: Excellent western, McQueen is superb.
Review: Steve McQueen plays Max Sand ( Nevada Smith ) who sets about finding his parents three killers played by karl Malden , Martin Landau, and Arthur Kenndy. But finding them and killing them is a bit harder then he thought. While on his trail he meet's Brian Keith who teaches him to be an expert marksman.Nevada Smith is a tense violent western which follows Nevada every step on his revenge crazed journey. McQueen is excellent , in this classic western.
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Summary: Long, a bit slow, but worth it
Review: Steve McQueen starts out as a naive half-breed boy seeking out
the three men who murdered and multilated his parents. At first he can't even shoot a pistol, a flaw remedied by Brian Keith in a wonderful role. From there it's uphill, or downhill, depending on your point of view. McQueen's character, Max Sand, loses his innnocence and becomes a hard man, a killer. This allows him to hunt down the men, but at a cost of part of his soul. Unfortunately, I never found any of the villains to be particularly villainous, which is made up by the other characters, including the late Iron Eyes Cody as an Indian chief. Good movie, made when MrQueen was at the top of his form.
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Summary: Magnificent Smith
Review: Steve McQueen was in two great westerns. Everyone knows Magnificent Seven, but this is one not everyone is familiar with. Along with his great characterization of a half breed that seeks revenge we see excellent performances put in by Karl Malden, Suzanne Pleshette and many others. Those that have seen it know its great value as you can tell from their reviews. If you like westerns this is one not to miss. He will track his parents killers to the ends of the Earth if need be. He even purposely goes to one of the worst prisons to get one. His skills as a gunfighter and knife fighter put the fear of God into his quarry as they find out he is tracking them.therooksnook
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Summary: Nevada Smith
Review: Steve McQueen's western-with-a-difference asks whether revenge is really the answer. In its time, the movie was considered uncommonly violent. It also begins to develop sympathetic Indian characters and women who are good, wise, and brave. The movie seems simple and unpolished by today's standards. But today's sophisticated viewers will probably still enjoy the ambiguities of the story and the hero's character, and the anti-violence theme.
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Summary: Gripping Movie!
Review: Steve McQueen, plays the role of Nevada Smith.He actually
witnesses the murder of his parents,a white father and an indian mother. He tracks the three culprits all of the way across the
American West. He picks off the guilty party one by one. He
displays markmanship.as well as skillful knifefighting in taking
vengance for the murder of his parents.The final murderer of the three Karl Malden stays in a state of fear of Nevada Smith.This will be one of the better action films that you will watch.This film has action galore. I enjoyed the film because I had been a
life long fan of Steve McQueen. Watch this film.you will enjoy it.
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Summary: Great Steve McQueen movie!!!
Review: This is a great movie, and I just want to know why it has not been released yet on DVD????? Widescreen, remastered, the whole works!!! Real widescreen, none of this 1:85 stuff.....at least 2:35 and the full version. Please let the movie producers know about these movies that should be getting released on DVD. There are so many really dumb movies that have been released. This is a CLASSIC!!! Please pass on my message!
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Summary: DVD Please
Review: This is one hell of a film. This film is among the greatest westerns ever made. You have to be young at heart and of sound mind to understand these films. No macho B/S. McQueen excels as usual. Story is a "classic"!. Magnificent Seven, Big Country, Rio Bravo, One Eyed Jacks and Nevada Smith, I reckon anyway. There are others but i reckon these are the "classics". :)
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Summary: A Good Actor Remembered
Review: This movie is based on a character from Harold Robbins' THE CARPETBAGGERS, but not to worry if you don't remember Nevada Smith as no one should be criticized for not remembering anything about that book. As I remember it was not the great American novel. I kept trying to figure out why the movie was so named since McQueen who is Nevada Smith doesn't take that name until near the end of the movie. Steve McQueen, who is cast as the son of a white man and American Indian, is by far the best thing about this movie. I know: Steve has light eyes and brown hair but none of the other characters in the movie know he is half Indian so it shouldn't bother us, I suppose. The plot is simple. Mcqueen sets out to kill the three men who have brutally murdered his parents. In practically every frame of this movie, he does a fine job of acting. Even though McQueen was 36 when this movie was released in 1966, he looks all of 20. If you require that a character grow and change in order to make a movie good, then McQueen does that. The movie is somewhat dated, and some of the buildings look too much like movie sets. The photography of the American West, however, is very beautiful. It's good to remember just how good an actor Steve McQueen was. This movie is certainly worth watching.
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