Posted on 06/28/2006 3:23:19 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel
AMC's "Broken Trail" was number one in the ratings Sunday night, besting everything on cable and network television. But it wasn't just the American public who loved the Robert Duvall-toplined Western-the pic was also a hit with President Bush. The movie's star (and Presidential pal) screened the pic at the White House on June 11 and sources say the President enjoyed it. "He was joking during the screening and in good spirits," says one person in attendance.
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Best actor ever.
I would argue with you...Brando in the Godfather was better.
Excellent movie. Just goes to show that when good movies are made people will go see them. The junk (and that's defaming "junk") that pollutes the movies today and the rental stores isn't worth seeing the first time much less the second time. I was seeing some of these movies on sale the other day for a $1 a DVD. They are unwatchable.
Duvall is one of my favorites, too!
Ha! I was just watching him in a film a few nights ago (Rambling Rose) and marveling at how good he is.
He is very good in a variety of roles. He has been a standout cowboy. Almost as good as Tom Selleck.
Check our OPEN RANGE if you haven't seen it. Duvall was great, Costner was Costner, Annette Benning was a total babe. Probably the best gunfight I've ever seen in a cowboy movie.
Liked him in Open Range too.
Brando certainly was good in the Godfather, and I don't want to suggest that he wasn't, but he really wasn't much of a factor in the second half of the movie. And I found the role pretty one-dimensional. Next to Pacino, Duval had more screen time in the two Godfather movies and his emotions were much more subtle, Tom Hayden was my favorite character in the two Godfather movies.
I saw Broken Trail on Sunday and was one of the folks who loved it. The bad guys get punished, the horses and the scenery are beautiful, the story is bittersweet and touching - what more could you want? Oh, yes, and all the actors were great, too!
He played a Cuban exile in "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway" and I didn't even know it was him until I saw the credits, he was so convincing.
Duvall in Stars over Henrietta was a wonderful story too!
We'll have to get ourselves on the wait list for the Netflix version of Broken Trails. We don't have cable/digital.
Oops I meant Hagen, not Hayden.
Loved him in the opening of The Great Santini when he's celebrating in a private room of a fancy restaurant with his flyboy buddies. Some of the brass are enjoying dinner with their wives in the main restaurant and come to complain about the noise...so he sticks an open can of soup in his jacket and waltzes out on the dance floor pretending to be drunk...then pretends to vomit all over the floor (by dumpign the soup) in front of the brass and their wives. A great part for him.
He played a good Stalin as well.
I saw it. It was OK. But not on the par with Lonseome Dove or even Open Range.
Still, Duvall makes it. Without him the movie would have been bad. He gave it life and an authentic feel.
Seems to me the "horse thief" angle for the bad guys was not fleshed out properly and the Indian segment seemed pointless. Worse, the ending was a tad too pat.
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