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Monte Walsh is a 1970 American Western film directed by cinematographer William A. Fraker (his directorial debut) starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Palance. The name "Monte Walsh" is taken from the title of a 1963 western novel by Jack Schaefer, but the film has little to do with the plot of Schaefer's book.
Monte Walsh: Directed by William A. Fraker. With Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitchell Ryan. An aging cowboy realizes that the West he knew and loved will soon be no more--and that there will be no room for him, either.
- (3K)
- William A. Fraker
- PG-13
- Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance
And so Monte Walsh, 50ish, thinks in a rather disorganized way of getting into some other line of work and maybe even getting married. The thing that helps make up his mind for him is when his best friend Chet ( Jack Palance) gives up cowpunching, moves into town and marries the "hardware widow."
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William A. Fraker's relatively little-known Monte Walsh (1970) somehow fell between the cracks of The Wild Bunch and Robert Altman's elegiac McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), but it's still an impressive film that benefits greatly from Fraker's experience as an A-list cinematographer.
- William A. Fraker, Al Murphy, Jack Roe
- Lee Marvin
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild-West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options.
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Sep 10, 2012 · A stunning debut Western for cameraman-turned-director Fraker, chronicling the death of an era as two cowboys (Marvin and Palance) ride into town to find that a bleak winter has...
