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John Russell
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Hombre: Directed by Martin Ritt. With Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento. John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
- (14K)
- Drama, Western
- Martin Ritt
- 1967-03-21
Hombre (Spanish for 'man') is a 1967 American revisionist Western film directed by Martin Ritt, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard and starring Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone and Diane Cilento.
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Hombre. Ah, yes, we know the characters well from a thousand other Westerns. It's fun to check them off: The good but indecisive Mexican, the decisive but bad Mexican, the thieving Indian agent, his cultured wife, the desperado, the lady boarding house operator with a heart of gold, and the Kid.
Taken in by a white man for a time as a kid he inherits a boarding house at his death, run by a caretaker. They meet, she hopes to continue the business, but he decides to sell, leaving her ...
- 121 min
- 80.1K
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When his father dies--leaving him a boarding house--John finds himself in a dusty stagecoach along with a mismatched septet of passengers, including his Mexican-American friend, Mendez; landlady, Jessie, and the brutal Cicero Grimes, after deciding to sell the property.
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Among the latter group is John Russell, whom they call Hombre. As a child, he was separated from his white parents, carried off by Apaches, and raised as an Indian. Upon learning that he has inherited a boardinghouse, Russell decides to trade the property for a herd of horses.
