Nevada Smith with Steve McQueen: DVD Cover

    Nevada Smith Director: Henry Hathaway Cast: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy

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    • DVD Release Date: 04/22/2003
    • Original Release: 1966
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 14,712

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    Closed Caption; Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs; English subtitles; Dolby Digital: English Mono, French Mono

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. The Murder of Max Sand's Family [10:19]
    2. Setting Out for Revenge [12:42]
    3. Jonas Cord [5:38]
    4. Studying Up [5:29]
    5. Going Where the Money Is [6:09]
    6. Killing Jesse Coe [7:22]
    7. Neesa [4:28]
    8. Looking for Names [3:31]
    9. "The Word Is Apprehended" [12:25]
    10. Enemies and Friends [5:31]
    11. Dying in Sin [7:03]
    12. Mean as Tom Fitch [12:18]
    13. Father Zaccardi [8:04]
    14. "Smith... Nevada Smith" [7:39]
    15. Aiming to Kill [7:59]
    16. "Finish Me!" [8:11]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Henry Hathaway's film is based on a character from Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers, who, in turn, based it on cowboy actor Ken Maynard. Set in the West of the 1890s, the film opens with the torture and murder of the parents of Max Sand (Steve McQueen) by a trio of gunslingers seemingly motivated by their hostility toward the mixed nature of the marriage, since the wife is a Native American. Swearing revenge, the young cowhand enlists the help of itinerant gunsmith Jonas Cord Brian Keith, who teaches him how to shoot while counseling against revenge. Nonetheless, Sand doggedly scours one town after the other before finally running up against one of the murderers, Jesse Coe (Martin Landau). He finally kills Coe in a vicious knife fight, but is severely wounded himself and has to be nursed back to health by Neesa (Janet Margolin), a young Kiowa woman. He next heads for Louisiana where another of the murderous trio, Bill Bowdre (Arthur Kennedy), is serving a prison sentence in a remote swamp. In order to get close to the man, Sand stages a robbery, and is soon among the prison inmates. This was the only film on which McQueen worked with Landau, the only other person admitted to the Actor's Studio out of thousands of applicants in 1957. Michael Costello, All Movie Guide

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    May 30, 2003: A vastly, incredibly underappreciated western. Actually, more of a odessy set in a western mold. Don't forget the beautifully staged fight scenes. The knife fight between Landau and Mcqueen should be right there with Stagecoach; I'm sorry. I have to say it. These rigid definitions/opinions of what a classic western are are helping to stagnate interest in the genre. There's no credit given to westerns that rank with Die Niebelungen in poetic grace and austerity. The story is brutally simple, following a youth(Mcqueen) through a fixation on revenge that lasts years, encompassing a vast, gigantic, unexplored world to the young man in the process. He's given some valuable advice, but we know he's going to learn the hard way. Mcqueen is masterfully understated here, blending humility into an inexperienced ''half-breed'' youth. Kennedy and Malden are vivid in their clever presentations. I don't know who's more evil: Landau or Malden. Its as if we're witnessing the first results of an incredible sea-change in acting style, reminiscent of HOMBRE more than THE SEARCHERS. There's much more intimacy here, therefore more ''reality''.